The [barbarous] Prince of Pictes against them shall preuaile.

9.

But softe lay here a strawe, Seuerus[1091] now I tell,

When hee the wall had made and pingde mee out,[1092]

To Scythia hence I saylde, and stoarde mee well

With men, munition good, a warlike route,

Of youthfull Pictes full strong in armour stoute

A Nauy good I brought, and entred on the land,[1093]

[A mighty worke,] of stately Yorke I tooke the seege in hand.

10.