In Britayne though I learned had full well
The artes, and could among’st the wise conferre,
Yet when of Athens I the fame heard tell,
(Though it in Greece so far hence distant were)
I trauayl’d thither, writers witnesse are
I studied there, and thence of learned men I brought
That learning might from Britayne land no more so far bee sought.[411]
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But after hee was dead that was my stay,
My father graue, I meane the worthy King