Queen Hellen shee did excell :

For Marian then was prais’d of all men,

That did in the country dwell.

’Twas neither Rosamond nor Jane Shore,

Whose beauty was clear and bright,

That could surpass this country lass,

Beloved of lord and knight.

The earl of Hun­ting­ton, nobly born,

That came of noble blood,

To Marian went, with a good intent,