Of Brutus' blood, in Brittane born,
King Arthur I am to name:
Through Christendome and Heathynesse
Well known is my worthy fame.
In Jesus Christ I doe beleeve;
I am a Christyan born:
The Father, Sone and Holy Gost
One God I doe adore.
In the four hundreed nintieth yeere
Over Brittaine I did rayne,
After my Savior Christ his byrth:
What time I did maintaine.
The fellowshippe of the table round
Soe famous in those days;
Whereatt a hundred noble Knights
And thirty sat alwayes;
Who for their deeds and martiall feates,
As bookes dou yet record,
Amongst all other nations
Wer feared through the world.
And in the castle of Tayntagill,
King Uther me begate
Of Agyana, a bewtyous ladye,
And come of hie estate.
And when I was fifteen yeer old,
Then was I crowned Kinge;
All Brittaine that was att an uprore
I did to quiett bring