Of princes and of kynges

And of all pleasaunt thynges,

Of lust and of delyght,

Thorow his godly myght; 870

To whom be the laude ascrybed

That my pen hath enbybed

With the aureat droppes,

As verely my hope is,

Of Thagus, that golden flod,

That passeth all[418] erthly good;