In Townes and Cities Gouernours are graue:

[The lands are tild,] the common wealth doth prosper[685] then,

And wealth at will the Prince and people haue.

2.

Perhaps you aske, what Prince is this appeares?

What meanes his talke in these our golden yeares?

A Britayne Prince that Varianus hight,

I helde some time the [crowne and] scepter here by right:

And though no neede there be in these your [golden] dayes

Of states to tell, or vertues good discriue,