The but hee was not whereat I did shoote,
But yet he stoode betweene the marke and mee,
For had he liu’d,[1761] for mee it was no boote
To tempt[1762] the thing that by no meanes could bee,
For I third was then of my brethren three:
But yet I thought the elder being gone,
Then needes must I beare the stroke alone.
10.
Desire of rule made mee, alas, to rewe,
My fatall fall I could it not foresee,