13A mighty Lion, ruler of the woods,

14Of wondrous strength and great proportion,

15With hideous noise scaring the trembling

16 trees,

17With yelling clamours shaking all the earth,

18Traverst the groves, and chac't the wandring beasts:

19Long did he range among the shadie trees,

20And drave the silly beasts before his face;

21When suddenly from out a-thorny bush

22A dreadfull Archer with his bow ybent,

23Wounded the Lion with a dismal shaft,

24So he him strook, that it drew forth the bloud,

25And fill'd his furious heart with fretting ire;

26But all in vain he threatneth teeth and pawes,

27And sparkleth fire from forth his flaming eyes,

28For the sharp shaft gave him a mortal wound:

29So valiant Brute, the terrour of the world,

30Whose only looks did scare his enemies,

31The Archer Death brought to his latest end.

32Oh what may long abide above this ground,