Robbing fair art and cunning of their right,
Tells how those stones were by the devil’s force,
From Africk brought, to Ireland in a night:
And thence to Britannie, by magick course,
From giants hand redeem’d by Merlin’s sleight.
And then near Ambry plac’d, in memory
Of all those noble Britons murder’d there,
By Hengist and his Saxon treachery,
Coming to parle in peace at unaware.
With this old legend then, credulity