I have contrivd and framde a head of brasse,

(I made Belcephon[1297] hammer out the stuffe)

And that by art shall read Philosophie: 55

And I will strengthen England by my skill,

That if ten Cæsars livd and raignd in Rome,

With all the legions Europe doth containe,

They should not touch a grasse of English ground;

The worke that Ninus reard at Babylon, 60

The brazen walles framde by Semiramis,

Carvd out like to the portall of the sunne,