64040The wretched man gan then avise to late,
4141 That love is not, where most it is profest,
4242 Too truely tryde in his extremest state;
4343 At last resolv'd likewise to prove the rest,
4444 He to
Cordelia him selfe addrest,
4545 Who with entyre affection him receav'd,
4646 As for her Syre and king her seemed best;
4747 And after all an army strong she leav'd,
4848To war on those, which him had of his realme bereav'd.
74949So to his crowne she him restord againe,
5050 In which he dyde, made ripe for death by eld,
5151 And after wild, it should to her remaine:
5252 Who peaceably the same long time did weld:
5353 And all mens harts in dew obedience held:
5454 Till that her sisters children, woxen strong
5555 Through proud ambition, against her rebeld,
5656 And overcommen kept in prison long,
5757Till weary of that wretched life, her selfe she hong.
85858Then gan the bloudie brethren both to raine:
5959 But fierce
Cundah gan shortly to envy
6060 His brother
Morgan, prickt with proud disdaine,
6161 To have a pere in part of soverainty,
6262 And kindling coles of cruell enmity,
6363 Raisd warre, and him in battell overthrew:
6464 Whence as he to those woodie hilles did flie,
6565 Which hight of him
Glamorgan, there him slew:
6666Then did he raigne alone, when he none equall knew.
King Leir