So wonteth God to blinde the worldly wise,

That not to see, that al the world espies.

90.

One hearing it cried out: “A goodly cast,

And wel contriued, foule cast away for hast:”

Whereto another gan in scoffe replie,

“First pend it was by enspiring prophecie:”

So can God reape vp secret mischiefes wrought,

To the confusion of the workers thought:

My lords, the tub, that dround the Clarence duke,