If any such might be found,

It were worth an hundreth pound

Of kynge Cresus golde, 190

Or of Attalus[350] the olde,

The ryche prynce of Pargame,

Who so lyst the story to se.

Cadmus, that his syster sought,

And he shold be bought

For golde and fee,

He shuld ouer the see,