Three ages > (Nestor had already counselled two generations of Greeks before he came to advise Agamemnon (Iliad 1.247-52)) contrive > wear down (of time); hence: live through
6 By whose advice old Priam's city fell),
By > [And by]
Priam > (The last king of Troy)
7 With these in praise of policies might strive.
praise > praiseworthiness
8 These three in these three rooms did sundry dwell,
sundry > separately
9 And counselled fair Alma how to govern well.
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The first of them could things to come foresee:
2 The next could of things present best aduize;
The third things past could keepe in memoree,
4 So that no time, nor +reason+ could arize,
But that the same could one of these comprize.
6 For thy the first did in the forepart sit,
That nought mote hinder his quicke preiudize:
8 He had a sharpe foresight, and working wit,
That neuer idle was, ne once +could+ rest a whit.