Of Brutus bloode the last I liude that rulde as king:

My Britaines driuen to Wales they Welchmen then were calde,

And I at Rome their king, a mumbling monke instal’d:

The Saxons had the day, for which they longed long:

They England calde the ile of Brute, which tooke her name.

Some men be borne to blisse, and some to hatefull happe:

Who would haue thought, that I in warre a raging kyng,

Should by the force of fate, at Rome haue dide a monke?

Let al the worlde then know, that nothing is so sure,

That can affoorde and say, I thus wyl aye indure: