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