Now learned I among the rest to clawe:

For pride is such, if it bee kindely caught,

As stroyeth good, and stirreth vppe euery naught.

8.

Pride pricketh men to[330] flatter for the pray,

T’oppresse and poll[331] for maintnaunce of the same,

To malice such as match vnethes it may:

And to bee briefe, pride doth the harte enflame,

To fyre what mischiefe any fraude may frame,

And euer[332] at length the euyls by it wrought