CHAP. 88.
SOme (not degenerated though) oft instanted the rest,
To imitate their Auncestors, and Slothful∣nesse detest:
By rightfull Armour to remaund Theirs of their foes possest,
Their liues to better, with their foes couragi∣ously to cope,
Not to be Fortunes Infidels, but better times to hope.
Which Counsell wrought, & soone their foes had newes how they conspire,
It being to the Picts and Scots fresh fewell to their fire.
For, hearing Constantine with his french-Britons now ashore,
And all reuolted heere from them, for first Reuenge therefore
They slew the brittish Pledges: Then conuent their Forces all,
And with the Brutaines fought a Field, to Eithers losse not small.
This Constantine th' Armoricane, of Brutaine now made King,
The scotch King slaine, and Picts repeld, did both to reason bring.
And disciplind in martiall and in morall Practise his,
Till him a Pict did murther: Nor like death his Sonne did misse,
By trecherie of Vortiger, that his Successor is.
How, odious to his Subiects, he inuits the Saxons aid,
Who thence till now haue Lorded heere, it hath els-where bin said.
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