As honour encreased I looked still higher,
Not seeing the daunger of my fond desire.
11.
For fortune’s floude thus running with[267] full streame,
And I a duke discended of great kinges,[268]
Constable of England, chiefe officer of[269] the realme,
Abused with desperaunce[270] in these vayne thinges,
I went without feete, and flewe without winges,
Presuming so farre vpon my high estate,
That dreade set apart, my prince I would mate.