The certain seat and bow’r of wand’ring Brute:

Thou realm, which aye I reverence as my saint,

Thou stately Britain, th’ ancient type of Troy,

Bear with my forced wrongs! I am not he,

That willing would impeach thy peace with wars!

Lo, here both far and wide I conqueror stand:

Arthur, each where thine own, thy liege, thy king.

Condemn not mine attempts; he, only he,

Is sole in fault that makes me thus thy foe.

Here I renounce all leagues and treats of truce: