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.