But graunted more then I could aske or craue,
So that there was proclaymed by and by,
A famous feast, a banquet passing braue:
There to the duke the Britayne crowne I gaue,
With sacred spousall ryghtes, as man and wyfe
We wedded, liude in loue, for terme of lyfe.
25.
And whylste we ment to rule this little ile,[1185]
A greater good vnlooked for befel,
Death did destroy his syre with hateful hand: