Imposuítque iugum Scoti ceruicibus ingens:

And eke vnweldie seruile yoke on necke of Scots hath laid:

Qui tumidos Gallos, Germanos quíque feroces

Who Frenchmen puft with pride, and who the Germans fierce in fight

Perculit, & Dacos bello confregit aperto:

Discomfited, and danted Danes with maine and martiall might:

Denique Mordredum è medio qui sustulit illud

Who of that murdring Mordred did the vitall breath expell,

Monstrum, horrendum, ingens, dirum, sæuúmque tyrannum,

That monster grislie, lothsome, huge, that diresome tyrant fell,