Whome I, perforce, do here present to thee,

He faynts so sore hee may not speake a word:

I pleade his cause without rewarde or fee,

And am enforc’d[1801] to speake for him and mee:

If in his youth hee had bene wisely tought,

Hee should not now his wit so deare haue bought.

28.

For what is hee that hath but halfe a wit,

But may well know that rebelles cannot speede:

Marke well my tale, and take good heede to it,