And wonned there, where now Yorke people dwell;

Still Vre, swift Werfe, and Oze the most of might,

High Swale, vnquiet Nide, and troublous Skell;

All whom a Scythian king, that Humber hight,

Slew cruelly, and in the riuer drowned quight.

But past not long, ere Brutus warlicke[215] sonne xxxviii

Locrinus them aueng’d, and the same date,

Which the proud Humber vnto them had donne,

By equall dome[216] repayd on his owne pate:

For in the selfe same riuer, where he late