49.
Which in my suddaine downefall tooke not end,
This dreadfull iudgement could not satisfie
The wrath of righteous Ioue, who did intend
The extirpation of my progenie,
In the reuenge of Alfred’s tragedie,
With seu’n sonnes done to death, all valiant men,
My name did vade, as it had neuer ben.
50.
My eldest sonne, hight Swaine, in his rash moode