T’abace the bad, the godly well to guide,
The good to gard, and godlesse downe depose.[929]]
How Gviderivs King of Britayne and the elder sonne of Cimbaline was slayne in battayle by a Romayne, The yeare of Christ, 44.
Or as some write, 46.
1.
Take, Higins, now in hand thy pen for mee,
Let not my death and storye lye forgote,
Good cause there is I should remembred bee,
If thou the falles of Britayne Princes note:
Aloft I sate in Princely place a flote,