"Qui rexit rigidos Normannos, atque Britannos
Audacter vicit, fortiter obtinuit,
Et Cœnomenses virtute contudit enses,
Imperijq. sui legibus[4] applicuit,
Rex magnus parua iacet hæc Guilhelmus in urna:
Sufficit & magno parua domus domino,
Ter septem gradibus se voluerat atq. duobus
Virginis in gremio Phœbus, & hic obijt:" that is;

"Who ouer Normans rough did rule, and ouer Britons bold
Did conquest stoutlie win, and conquest woone did stronglie hold:
Who by his valure great the fatal vprores calmed, in maine,
And to obeie his powers and lawes, the Manceaux did constraine:
This mightie king within this little vault entoomed lies,
So great a lord sometime, so small a roome dooth now suffice.
When three times seuen and two by iust degrees the sunne had tooke
His woonted course in Virgos lap, then he the world forsooke."

[Sidenote: _W. Patten_ collecteth this to be the 23. after the sun was
in _Virgo_: which is the 6. of Septēber.]


Thus far William Conquerour.




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