“I neede not now recite what loue I bare, My friendship you, I trust, haue found so well, That none amongst you all which present are, With teares doth not record the tale I tell. Eke whom I found for vertues to excell, To them I gaue the price thereof, as due As they deseru’d, whose facts I found so true. 62. “Now must I proue, if paines were wel bestow’d, Or if I spent my gratefull gifts in vayne, Or if these great good turns to you I ow’d, And might not aske your loyall loues againe: Which if I wist, what tongue could tell my paine? I meane, if you vngratefull mindes doe beare, What meaneth death to let mee linger here? 63. “For if you shall abuse your Prince in this, The gods on you for such an haynous fact To take reuenge bee sure will neuer misse. And then to late you shall[208] repent the act, When all my Realme, and all your wealthes are sackt: But if you shall, as you begon, proceede, Of kingdomes fall or foes there is no dreede. 64. “And to auoyde contention that may fall, Because I wishe this Realme the Britans still, Therefore I will declare before you all, Sith you are come, my whole intent and will: Which if you keepe, and wrest it not to ill, There is no doubt but euermore with fame You shall enioy the Britans Realme and name. 65. “You see my sonnes, that after mee must raigne, Whom you or this haue lik’d and counsail’d well. You know what erst you wisht they should refraine, Which way they might all vices vile expell, Which way they might in vertues great excell. Thus if you shall, when I am gone insue, You shall discharge the trust repos’d in you. 66. “Bee you their fathers, with your counsaile wise, And you my children take them euen as mee, Bee you their guides in what you can deuise, And let their good instructions teach you three: Bee faithfull all: as brethren ought agree: For concord keeps a Realme in stable stay: But discord brings all kingdomes to decay. 67. “Recorde you this: to th’ eldest[209] sonne I giue This Middle parte of Realme to holde his owne, And to his heyres that after him shall liue: Also to Camber, that his part bee knowne, I giue that land that lyes welnigh oregrowne With woodes, Northwest, and mountaines mighty hye, By South whereof the Cornish sea doth lye.[210] 68.