By ioynt consent of the nobilitie,
To sit sole monarch in the same alone,
Did daily seeke by wisdome’s policie,
T’establish it to his posteritie,
While I, and Edward hight my elder brother,
Did liue in exile with our wofull mother.
6.
Meane time Canute, th’vsurper of our right,
Hug’d in the armes of peace, and finding none
That could oppose themselues against his might,