Whose tuskes should teare my brother’s boyes and me,

And gaue me warning therof long before:

But wyt nor warning can in no degree

Let thinges to hap, which are ordainde to bee:

Witnesse the painted lionesse, which slue

A prince imprisoned, lyons to eschewe.

41.

He told me eke[1199] my yoke fellow should dy,

(Wherin would God he had bene no deuyne)

And after her death I[1200] should woo earnestly