23.
Hight Colgrim greatest amongst Saxon kings
I first subdu’d with honour’d victorie,
But happie he vpon the wind-like wings
Of hastie speed to saue himselfe did flie
Ouer the seas broad backe to Germanie:
Yet could he not escape vntimely death,
But here in Britaine breath’d he his last breath.
24.
Vnto his friends, when he in safetie came,