All Scotland then throughe manly feats And the ugly gyant Dynabus Soe terrible to vewe, That in Saint Barnards mount did lye, By force of armes I slew : And Lucyus the emperour of Rome 45 And a thousand more of noble knightes For feare did turne their backe: Five kinges of 'paynims' I did kill Amidst that bloody strife; Besides the Grecian emperour Who alsoe lost his liffe. 50 Ver. 39. Froland field, MS. Froll, according to the Chroni cles, was a Roman knight governor of Gaul. Ver. 41. Danibus, MS. Ver. 49. of Pavye, MS. Whose Whose carcasse I did send to Rome Cladd poorlye on a beere; And afterward I past Mount-Joye The next approaching yeere. Then I came to Rome, where I was mett Right as a conquerour, And by all the cardinalls solempnelye I was crowned an emperour. One winter there I made abode : Then word to mee was brought Att home in Brittaine with my queene; To Brittaine backe, with all my power, And soone at Sandwiche I arrivde, Where Mordred me withstoode : 70 But yett at last I landed there, With effusion of much blood. For there my nephew sir Gawaine dyed, Being wounded in that sore, The whiche sir Lancelot in fight Had given him before. 75 Thence VI. A DYTTIE TO HEY DOWNE. Copied from an old MS. in the Cotton Library, [Vesp A. 25.] intitled, "Divers things of Hen. viij's time.' WHO sekes to tame the blustering winde, Or causse the floods bend to his wyll, Or els against dame nature's kinde To change things frame by cunning skyll: That man I thinke bestoweth paine, Thoughe that his laboure be in vaine. Who strives to breake the sturdye steele, Which never can by force be done : Who thinks to stryve against the streame, And for to sayle without a maste; His travell ys forelorne and waste; And so in cure of all his paine, 5 10 15 His travell ys his cheffest gaine. Ver. 4. causse, MS. So |