Though Poets all of thee doe make a God,

(Such simple fooles in making Gods they bee)

Yet if I might[728] my quarell try’d[729] with thee,

Thou neuer hadst retournde to Rome agayne,

Nor of thy faithfull friends bin beastly slayne.

28.

A number Britaynes mightst thou there haue seene

Death-wounded fight,[730] and spoile their spitefull foes:

My selfe maimde slewe and mangled mo (I weene)

When I was hurte then twenty more of those: