4.
Who being slaine, as thou before didst heare,
By treacherous Edricke and his bloodie sonne,
They for their fact a guerdon due did beare:
For whereas praise by it they thought t’haue wonne
Of king Canute, they both to death were done,
Whose hands with blood, whose hearts with treason floe,
Seldome in peace vnto the graue do goe.
5.
Canute being seated on the English throne