Gurgunstus Readbeard with his sober sawes,
The sonne of Beline and my Grandsyre grand,
Was fortunate what ere he tooke in hand.
4.
His sonne my grandsire Guintheline did passe
For vertue’s praise, and Martia was his wife,
A noble Queene that wise and learned was,
And gaue her selfe to study all her life,
Deuising lawes, discust the ends of strife
Amongst the Britaynes to her endlesse fame: