To come by kinred of a noble race?
Except we princely, worthie, noble be!
The fruite declares the goodnes of the tree,
Do brag no more of birth or linage than,
For vertue,[653] grace, and manners make the man.
3.
My selfe might bragge, and first of all begin,
Mulmucius made and constituted lawes,
And Belinus and Brenne his sonnes did win
Such prayse, their names to be immortall cause.[654]