Wherefore if thou wilt afterwards record[448]
What Queene Cordila tells[449] to ease her inward smarte,
I will recite my story tragicall ech word,
To thee that geu’st an eare, and ready art.[450]
But lest I set the horse behinde the cart,
I minde to tell ech thing in order, so,
As thou maist see and shew whence sprang my woe.
6.
My grandsire Bladud hight, that found the bathes by skill,
A fethered King that practis’d highe to soare[451]