To yeeld, or hostage geue, or tributes [due to] pay,

Or couenaunts to accept, or fearefully to fray:

[But bade by war to win the price, and beare the palme away.]

17.

They sayde that we did tributes sore exacte,

Whereby their Isle empouerisht greately was:

The Pictes likewise them robde, and spoyle, and sackte,

Whereof the Romaynes seemed naught to pas.

Wee ought (they sayd) to tame the Galloglasse,

The ranging Scythian Picte that them did spoyle,