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,