Th’ _Ægyptians_ hold forsooth that they restord The world agayne, but, how vnlikely, see: For _Scythiae’s_ site is high as all accord, From vs the fountaynes great’ste deriued bee. The auncient writers all likewise agree, That on _Armenia_ mount the Arke [of _Noah_] did rest, Till [heauenly] _Ioue_ againe the earth with drowth addrest. 4. But they alleage agayne their _Zone_ is milde, And fertile, temperate, meete to foster men: Our _Scythian_ hilles (they say) are frosty, wilde, Which cannot breede but ruder people then. To which I may well aunswere make agen, [That as _Iehoua_ made the _Zones_ both hot, and milde, and cold, Euen so to them hee fitly made like men the same to hold.][1088] 5. They say wee are nigh neighbours to the _Pole_, Or frozen poynt: more nere the fire are they: What poysons breede with them, and _Libians_ sole In parcheing sands the writers wise display. Can nature frame mankinde more deepe decay? [Perdy] where parching heat, where serpents vgly breede, A Clyme most fit from whence mankinde should[1089] first proceede. 6. But now ile tell why _Scythians_ should possesse This noble Isle: first, Lord _Neptunus_ gaue The Islandes to his sonnes, both more and lesse, Eke _Albion_ first of all this Isle should haue: Hee not with this content, the firme did craue. Wherefore in _Fraunce_ him _Hercules_ dispacht, When as hee would a kingdome there haue catcht. 7. Now as from _Noah_ [first] (of _Scythia_) by descent, Downe vnto _Albion’s_ time they held the land: From _Scythe_ to _Scythian_ as of right it went, And after him no _Scythian_ Prince it fand, When as vsurpers tooke the raygne in hand, Was it not [right and] reason wee should vndertake, This noble Realme our owne agayne to [_Scythia_ subiect] make? 8. The _Romaynes_ this deny, but euen themselues likewise (If they from vertue stray as reckelesse vse,[1090] And doe _Iehouae’s_ lawes and hestes despise, And right, and trueth, and iustice so refuse) Shall finde how much their Scepture they misuse. The _Scythian_ shall [likewise] their lofty seat assaile, The [barbarous] Prince of _Pictes_ against them shall preuaile. 9. But softe lay here a strawe, _Seuerus_[1091] now I tell, When hee the wall had made and pingde mee out,[1092] To _Scythia_ hence I saylde, and stoarde mee well With men, munition good, a warlike route, Of youthfull _Pictes_ full strong in armour stoute A Nauy good I brought, and entred on the land,[1093] [A mighty worke,] of stately _Yorke_ I tooke the seege in hand. 10.