How can I tell, but that his talants may
Yet scratch my sonne, or rend his tender hand?
So diversly themselves in vaine they fray;
Whiles some more bold, to measure him nigh stand,
To prove how many acres he did spread of land.
XII
Thus flocked all the folke him round about,
The whiles that hoarie king, with all his traine,
Being arrived where that champion stout