For _Morpheus_ bade them each in order tell[106] Their names and liues, their haps and haplesse dayes, And by what meanes, from Fortunes wheele[107] they fell, Which did them earst, vnto such honours rayse. Wherewith the first not making moe delayes, A noble Prince broade wounded brest[108] that bare Drew neere, to tell the cause of all his care. 17. Which when mee thought to speake hee might be bolde,[109] Deepe from his breste hee threwe an vncouth[110] sounde: I was amazde his gestures to beholde. And bloud that freshly trickled from his wounde, With Eccho so did halfe his wordes confounde, That scarce a while the sence might playne appeare: At last,[111] mee thought, hee spake as you shall heare.[112] How King Albanact the Yongest Son of Brutus,[113] and First King of Albany (now called Scotland) was slayne by king Humber, the yeere before Christ, 1085. 1. Sith flattering Fortune sliely could beguile Mee, first of Brytane Princes in this land:[114] And yet at first on mee did sweetely smile, Doe marke mee here,[115] that first in presence stand. And when thou well my wounded corps hast scand, Then shalt thou heare my hap to penne the same[116] In stories calde _Albanactæ_ by name.[117] 2. Lay feare[118] aside, let nothing thee amaze, Ne haue despaire, ne scuse the want of time:[119] Leaue of on mee with fearefull lookes to gaze, Thy pen may serue for such a tale as myne. First I will tell thee all[120] my fathers lyne, Then hitherward why hee with Troians man’d, His voyadge made, and founde this noble land.[121] 3. And last I minde to tell thee of my selfe, My life and death, a Tragedy so true As may approue your world is all but pelfe, And pleasures sweete, whom sorows aye ensue. Hereafter eke in order comes a crue, Which can declare, of worldly pleasures vayne The price wee all haue bought, with pinching[122] paine.[123] 4. When Troy was sackt, and brent, and could not stand, _Æneas_ fled from thence, _Anchises_ sonne, And came at length to King _Latinus_ land: Hee _Turnus_ slew, _Lauinia_ eke hee wonne. After whose death, _Ascanius_ next his sonne Was crowned King, and _Siluius_, then his heire, Espoused to a Latine Lady faire.[124] 5.