Then shall _Cadwallin_ dye, and then the raine xl Of _Britons_ eke with him attonce shall dye; Ne shall the good _Cadwallader_ with paine, Or powre, be hable it to remedy, When the full time prefixt by destiny, Shalbe expird of _Britons_ regiment. For heauen it selfe shall their successe enuy, And them with plagues and murrins pestilent Consume, till all their warlike puissaunce be spent. Yet after all these sorrowes, and huge hills xli Of dying people, during eight yeares space, _Cadwallader_ not yielding to his ills, From _Armoricke_, where long in wretched cace He liu’d, returning to his natiue place, Shalbe by vision staid from his intent: For th’heauens haue decreed, to displace The _Britons_, for their sinnes dew punishment, And to the _Saxons_ ouer-giue their gouernment. Then woe, and woe, and euerlasting woe, xlii Be to the Briton babe, that shalbe borne, To liue in thraldome of his fathers foe; Late King, now captiue, late Lord, now forlorne, The worlds reproch, the cruell victors scorne, Banisht from Princely bowre to wastfull wood: O who shall helpe me to lament, and mourne The royall seed, the antique _Troian_ blood, Whose Empire lenger here, then euer any stood. The Damzell was full deepe empassioned, xliii Both for his griefe, and for her peoples sake, Whose future woes so plaine he fashioned, And sighing sore, at length him thus bespake; Ah but will heauens fury neuer slake, Nor vengeaunce huge relent it selfe at last? Will not long misery late mercy make, But shall their name for euer be defast, And quite from of the earth[920] their memory be rast? Nay but the terme (said he) is limited, xliv That in this thraldome _Britons_ shall abide, And the iust reuolution measured, That they as Straungers shalbe notifide. For twise foure hundreth yeares shalbe supplide[921], Ere they to[922] former rule restor’d shalbee, And their importune fates all satisfide: Yet during this their most obscuritee, Their beames shall oft breake forth, that men them faire may see. For _Rhodoricke_, whose surname shalbe Great, xlv Shall of him selfe a braue ensample shew, That Saxon kings his friendship shall intreat; And _Howell Dha_ shall goodly well indew The saluage minds with skill of iust and trew; Then _Griffyth Conan_ also shall vp reare His dreaded head, and the old[923] sparkes renew Of natiue courage, that his foes shall feare, Least backe againe the kingdome he from them should beare.