At length to _Yorke_ with all his host hee came, Beseegeing it full sharpe assaultes hee gaue: Where I likewise for to defend the same, And from our foes the castell good to saue Came with my powre, as destnyes on mee draue: But in that fielde it was my chaunce to fall, I tooke my deadly wound, there ended all [Renowned lyfe, my warres, my tryomphes, and my thrall.] 21. The _Scythian_ eke receiude a deadly wounde, Which came to conquere vs, and lost his feelde: Thus Fortune fares her children to confounde, Which on her wheele their bastiles brauely beelde. Let noble Princes then to reason yeelde, The daynefull ladie daintie and demure, Dame Fortune’s fauour fickle is vnsure,[1083] [Her ioyes and triomphes tickle, timelesse to endure.] 22. Some say that I retournde to _Rome_ agayne, Sore troubled with the gowte, desiring death: And that I would haue taken poyson fayne, Which me denyde, to reaue my vitall breath I tooke a surfet great, which wrought my death. The _Britaynes_ say, at _Yorke_ my bones doe lye, The _Romaynes_ say at _Rome_ in _Italy_: [But where so ere they be, I nothing recke them I.] 23. But this I wish, all noble wights to viewe Howe I by slaughter gate the throne at furst, My souldiers noble men for empire slewe, This way to rise of all I proued wurst: For why, his hand of gods and men is curst, To rise aloft that layes the ground with bloud: The states of such vnstable still haue stood, [Despisde of mighty _Ioue_, that loues the gentle, meeke, and good.] How Fvlgentivs a Scythian, or Picte, was slayne at the seege of Yorke, about the yeare of Christ, 206, or 213. 1. I am that valiaunt _Scythian_ Prince the Picte, That vanquisht oft the _Britaynes_ in this Ile: Against the noble _Romaynes_ powre I kikte, And kept them play in _Britayne_ both long while, I forst them make a wall aboue an hundreth mile,[1084] From sea to sea, with towres to [watch and] keepe me out, Which of vs _Pictes_ [in prowesse proud] did daily stand in doubt. 2. Our auncient race (although th’ambitious _Romaynes_ nill)[1085] Had right by due discent to clayme this [noble] land: Of which repeate some proofe therefore I will, That so thou maist our title vnderstand. When all mankinde felt _Iehoue’s_[1086] almighty hand, That drensht all nations quite, for their rebellious sinne,[1087] Then strayght [eftsoones] in _Scythia_ did the world [by _Noah_] beginne. 3.