A heathen god they hold whom fortune kepe,

To deale them haps while God they wene asleepe:

Mocke-gods they are and many gods induce,

Who fortune fayne to father their abuse.

68.

How so it be, it mought[1448] haue warned me,

But, what I could not, that in me see ye,

Who runne in race, the honour like to win,

Whose fairest forme nought may deforme but sin:

Alas, when most I did defye all dread,