The king and I did meet in battell ray,
In which, alas, we Normans lost the day:
For on that day the Normans England won,
Was Normandie by English men orerun.
84.
Where, though false fortune turn’d her treacherous face,
And then began to worke our future woe,
Though dreadfull Pallas did denie vs grace,
And ’gainst our side her selfe in field did show,
Yet did we scorne, as scar’d, to flie the foe,