Yet no man would accomplishe his intent, For my Phisitions bare mee loyall hartes: My seruaunts eke full true no treason ment, But playde in eache respect their faithfull partes. They knewe themselues so bound by due desertes, They ought not, seruaunts, such a Lord betray, That gaue so great rewardes and giftes alway; [To pleasure him, that sought his father’s owne decay.] 15. To _Britayne_ I addrest an army great, perdy,[1073] To quaile the _Pictes_ that rufled in that Ile: And for to cops the _Britaynes_ tributes that deny,[1074] Which were withheld from _Romaynes_ there a while, And to bee absent from my sonnes so vile. But see what haps befall vs in the end, Which so to clime aloft, to raygne[1075] alone contend: [Marke whereunto our laboures great and bloudsheds bend.] 16. For when I was to _Britayne_ come that [famous] land, Where people stout, vntamde, vnuanquisht dwelt: Although once _Cæsar_ Fortune’s fauour fand, That erst before their valiaunt valure felt: I found the people nothing prest to pelt, To yeeld, or hostage geue, or tributes [due to] pay, Or couenaunts to accept, or fearefully to fray: [But bade by war to win the price, and beare the palme away.] 17. They sayde that we did tributes sore exacte, Whereby their Isle empouerisht greately was: The _Pictes_ likewise them robde, and spoyle, and sackte, Whereof the _Romaynes_ seemed naught to pas. Wee ought (they sayd) to tame the _Galloglasse_, The ranging _Scythian Picte_ that them did spoyle, [Empouerishing their people, them to foyle:] If wee would reape a taxe or tribute[1076] of their toyle. 18. On which at length, I did conclude a peace, And ioynde with them in league[1077] agaynst the _Picte_: But yet the wilfull people did not cease, My _Britaynes_ good [and mee] by inroades to afflicte: Whereon to wall them out I did my force addicte[1078] Long sixe score miles and twelue,[1079] the [_Scotishe_] banke I made From sea to sea, that _Pictes_ should not [them so] inuade: [Till yet the signes thereof are seene, for neuer thence to vade.] 19. By helpe of this, I chaste the _Pictes_ away, And draue them into _Albany_ to dwell: Whereon _Fulgentius Scythian_ sans delay[1080] To _Scythia_ sayld, an army new to tell:[1081] Which gathered great of _Pictes_[1082] apoynted well, Hee did retourne with speede to _Britayne_ strand: (That time I lay by North to guide the land, [Which holpe the _Britaynes_ erst the _Scythians_ to withstand.)] 20.