Even as the country clowns with sharpest scythes Do mow the withered grass from off the earth, Or as the ploughman with his piercing share Renteth the bowels of the fertile fields, And rippeth up the roots with razours keen:
So Locrine with his mighty curtleaxe Hath cropped off the heads of all thy Huns;So Locrine's peers have daunted all thy peers, And drove thin host unto confusion, That thou mayest suffer penance for thy fault, And die for murdering valiant Albanact.
CORINEIUS.
And thus, yea thus, shall all the rest be served That seek to enter Albion gainst our wills.
If the brave nation of the Troglodites, If all the coalblack Aethiopians, If all the forces of the Amazons, If all the hosts of the Barbarian lands, Should dare to enter this our little world, Soon should they rue their overbold attempts, That after us our progeny may say, There lie the beasts that sought to usurp our land.
LOCRINE.
Aye, they are beasts that seek to usurp our land, And like to brutish beasts they shall be served.