For long before my tyme, seuen kings were setled here.
The Saxons such as dwelt by east, Sibertus rulde,
The Angles in the east, Redwallus rulde as king,
Then Ethelbert was king of all the coast of Kent,
In Southsex Ethelwolfus wore the regall crowne:
Then Quincillinus was a Saxon king by west,
Of Martia in the midst king Penda was the prince,
And Edwin in Northumberland did rule and raygne,
How dyd my grandsire, grand renowmed Arthur, he
These seuen destroye, with deadly field of wrackfull warre?