5.

Two Princely dames with me came then away,

He brag’d to winne these countrey partes all three.

We Ladyes rather were[264] this Prince his pray,

Because he promist that we Queenes should bee.

We came to cost, these countrey coasts to see,

Sith hee on whom our hope did wholly stand,

Was drounde, nam’d Humber waters, lost the land.

6.

For as you heard before when he suppos’d