[1073] To Britaine ouer seas from Rome went I. N.
[1074] And tame the stout that tribute did denie. N.
[1075] So in throne to raigne. N.
[1076] Reape our tribute. N.
[1077] In league with them. N.
[1078] I made edict. N.
[1079] Sixe score miles and twelue. There was some error of the press in this number. According to Lanquet, it should be five score and twelve, while the Polychronicon, which appears to be the poet’s authority, says, “he made a walle in Brytayne that stretcheth six score myle and tweyne vnto the see.”
[1080] Fulgentius stout without delay. N.
[1081] To Scythia sail’d, and there his chance did tell. N.
[1082] And with an host of Picts. N.