And fifteene thousand horsemen good of manhoode and of might.[620]

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With these apoynted well my frends to ayde

The Britaynes good, and Beline in that case,

To Macedone I marcht, with souldiers well apayde,

Both for my brother’s sake and riches of the place:

Whereto when as wee came, in litle space

We wan the feelde, we tooke the spoyles of all the land at will,[621]

In pleasures plungde we had of wealth, [renowne,] and fame, our fill.[622]

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