36.

“The Britayne kyng is come alone you see,

Conduct him then your Emprour to salute,

You for your paynes shal gayne a golden fee;

For why my grace to Claudius hath a sute.”

The scurers they al silent, mumme, and mute,

Yet wel appayde of such a princely pray,

In hast they dyd to Cæsar me conuay.

37.

With ten times twentie thousand men, I met,