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