And brought the worlde so wide into one monarchie:
What though the fretting force of fate did him dismay?
He felt at laste the foyle, his vaunting was in vayne,
He dead, the worlde it was deuided as before:
The Roman emperie came tumbling downe at last:
And where is Troy, and Greece, and mightie Macedon?
They flourishte for a tyme like this my little ile:
The Soldion brought them downe, and did theyr states destroy:
Euen so the Saxons brought the Britayns to the bay,
Euen these mine eyes did see, that hateful hidious sight,