I have bene drechid with dremes swa,

This ilk night als I lay.'"

—(Gospel of Nichodemus, Harl. MS. 4196.)

(2) "Quhen Claudius þe manhed kend

Of þe Brettownys, he message send

Tyl Arẅyragus, þan þe kyng

Þat Brettayne had in governyng,

For til amese all were and stryfe,

And tak his dochtyr til his wyfe,

And to Rowme þat Tribwte pay