So huge a mind could not in lesser rest,

Ne in small meares containe his glory great,

That Albion had conquered first by warlike feat.

Ah fairest Lady knight, (said Paridell) xlvii

Pardon I pray my heedlesse ouersight,

Who had forgot, that whilome I heard[1087] tell

From aged Mnemon; for my wits bene light.

Indeed he said (if I remember right,)

That of the antique Troian stocke, there grew

Another plant, that raught to wondrous hight,