“O worthy knight,” (qd.[1877] I) “whose loyall faith appeares:
Cease wayles, rise vp, instruct my quiuering pen,
To tell the rest of fortune’s dublings then.”
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“I haue,” quoth he, “not fortune’s flatterie to accuse,
Nor fate, nor destenie, nor any fancie fainde:
I haue no cause t’affirme that these coulde ought misuse
This noble prince, whose life and acts such fame and honour gaynde,
But our deserts, our sinnes, and our offences staynde
This noble ile, and vs, our sinnes, I say,