The wisest men, I weene, that liued in their ages.
Not he, whom Greece, the Nourse of all good arts, xlviii
By Phœbus doome, the wisest thought aliue,
Might be compar’d to these[754] by many parts:
Nor that sage Pylian syre, which did suruiue
Three ages, such as mortall men contriue,
By whose aduise old Priams cittie fell,
With these in praise of pollicies mote striue.
These three in these three roomes did sundry dwell,
And counselled faire Alma, how to gouerne well.