And when thou well my wounded corps hast scand,

Then shalt thou heare my hap to penne the same[116]

In stories calde Albanactæ by name.[117]

2.

Lay feare[118] aside, let nothing thee amaze,

Ne haue despaire, ne scuse the want of time:[119]

Leaue of on mee with fearefull lookes to gaze,

Thy pen may serue for such a tale as myne.

First I will tell thee all[120] my fathers lyne,

Then hitherward why hee with Troians man’d,