The second line:
Unable to win the dispute. Return,
and so flee his realm
of three hundred households.
No blunders.
The third line:
Surviving on old favors: a perilous sign.
In the end: fortune.
One may undertake royal service,
but without personal success.
The sixth line:
One may be awarded a belt of high rank,
but by morning's end,
it will have been stripped away three times.