Abounding in her banks,) and Ax, their utmost make
To aid stout Dert, that dar’d Brute’s story to revive.
For when the Saxon first the Britons forth did drive,
Some up into the hills themselves o’er Severn shut:
Upon this point of land for refuge others put,
To that brave race of Brute still fortunate. For where
Great Brute first disembark’d his wand’ring Trojans, there
His offspring (after long expulst the inner land,
When they the Saxon power no longer could withstand)
Found refuge in their flight; where Ax and Otrey first