For which I sent and did obtayne a bande
Of Saxons, such as did the Scots[1193] withstande:
Whose helpe that I when neede requirde might haue,
I gaue them Kent, a countrey passing braue.
21.
These Saxons were a crewe of warrelike wightes,
They liude by spoyle, and had no byding place,
They were of truth a troupe of martial knyghtes,
Which serude for pay where Mars extolde his mace:
Saxons indeede they were of royal race,