To saue themselues they ment me to annoy,

Myne eldest sonne a proper prety boy,

They made their kyng, and me for my desert,

They did depriue: with paine which pincht my heart.

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Then Vortiger my sonne and kyng pursude

The Saxons sore, and dyd amaze them much,

For which my wyfe, his mother[1196] lawe, indude

With diuelish spite, agaynst the youth did grutche,

She him destroyde, her good successe was such: