With dolefull pen I could bewaile their woe,

Whose wofull wants did after proue me weake:

But far more horrid things we are to show,

To those blacke deeds, of which we now must speake:

They before spoken did that ice but breake,

At which we falling in did helplesse drowne,

Once fallen, all do helpe to keepe vs downe.

73.

Not Herkleye’s treason plotted in that truce,

Which for aduancement, most ambitious man,