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A51707	Brittains glory: or, The history of the life and death of K. Arthur, and the adventures of the knights of the Round Table : giving a relation of their heroick exploits and victories in many lands ... pleasant and delightful, altogether worthy the perusal of the ingenious reader.	Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent.; J. S.	1684 (1684)	Wing M339; ESTC R43418	18,774	26

slaughter THe King having been absent from his own Dominions for the space of six months began to cast his eye homeward when having remitted Burnamissa the charges he was at and only gave order his Subjects loss should be repaired he with his fair Queen whom the King loaded with rich presents took leave of the Danish Court and imbarquing with the whole Army and divers of the Danish Nobility who from their King had order to attend the Queen having a fair gale on the ninth of October landed where they first imbarqued and were received with vniversal joy whereupon the King coming to a Castle of his near Cardniff feasted the Danish Nobility in a most splendid manner But whilst he remained there he had notice That Magor King of Ireland who by his Ambassadors had courted the fair Genura and been refused was to revenge it on his arrival landed with a great Power in South-Wales whereupon the King comforting his Queen who was greatly grieved that through her cause such sudden troubles should arise passed on with his victorious Army and gave him Battel near Merionoth and utterly discomfited him so that flying with his broken Army and being every where assailed by the Country Pesants who had laid the way for him he scarcely escaped to his Ships with five Thousand out of thirty Thousand so that King Arthur speedy as Caesar in his victories returned to his fair Queen with the Trophies of his conquored Enemies long before he was expected to have fought the Battel when sending four Thousand men under the leading of Sir Lancelot and divers other good Knights they landed on the Isle of Angle-Sea and drove thence the French that had for some time past during the troubles of this Kingdom setled themselves there CHAP. IX How the King having recovered the Isle of Angle-Sea from the French sailed with a great Power into France to revenge the injury done to his Subjects and overthrowing their Army made them dearly purchase Peace THe Kings victories daily increasing the terrour of his name spread wide and made the most re-doubted Monarch tremble yet durst France then powerfull at Sea invade our Coast and with fire and sword spoiled many Sea-Towns carrying away great booty as also the people the men they made row in their Gally and the women to satiate their prodigious Lust When as the crys of his suffering subjects reaching his ear where he was delighting himself with his Queen he resolved once more to forsake the Camp of Venus and her soft delights to court Fame and Glory in the Camp of Mars whereupon having sent to Lotharius for Restitution and receiving rather scorns than a satisfactory answer from that imperious King he made great preparations for the War and had at that time twelve Saile of Ships sent to his aid by his Brother of Danemark when being in a readiness with an Army of 34000 he coasted the Country and putting into the Bay of Marselies with his shot of Arrows that flew like Haile drove the defendants from the shore on which himself with his own Standard first leaped and stood like an inraged Lyon though a thousand shafts flew round his Head and many rebounded from his glittering shield but long it was not e're the valiant Knights of the Order imitating their Soveraign thrust their ships on Land and putting their Souldiers in Battel-aray charged furiously upon the formost Battailian of the Enemy lead by the Duke De Vallois so that being over-set they retreated in great disorder and finding no place to be received broke the Ranks of their friends when as the Duke De Nevers advanced with the right wing of Horse to their succour but was so gau●ed with the shot of Arrows that the Horses mischiefed more the Riders than did the Brittains In this confusion the King drawing out 6000 of his choice men charged upon the disordered Enemy with such courage that he pierced their main Battel making lanes of death wherever he came cutting off Arms Heads and Legs insomuch that the Danish General Gironeus imitating him the French Souldiers routed in all parts left their Commanders and fled insomuch that the slaughter of the Nobility was great a fate ever incident to that Kingdom nor would they trust to the weak wall of Marselies but flying to Lyons and Paris left that part of the Country naked to be possessed of the Brittains The terror of this overthrow alaruming the French Court and finding that brought home to 'em which they had used to others abroad the people with Tears besought their King to appease the Conquorer in time and thereby prevent worse desolation who considering his tottering Kingdom was at stake sent four of his prime Lords to beg a weeks Cessation or Truce to which King Arthur whose aim was more at Glory and Renown than Advantage accorded during which time the King having raised a Million of crowns sent them in divers Waggons with other rich Presents to purchase his Peace and the departure of his new-come Guest yet prevailed they not e're he had made his acknowledgment for the indignity put upon the Kings Ambassadors and deliver the Town and Port of Marselies to be possessed as a pledge of future Peace by the Brittains for the space of 20 years to come and upon pain of forfeiting it for ever no Hostilitys to be used by Land nor depradations by Sea These Articles accorded the King hastened to his own Country with the greatest part of his Army leaving only 2000 Souldiers in Marselies and having amply rewarded the Danes dismissed them CHAP. X. How Queen Geneura was delivered of a Son and of the Presents and Vows made by the Saxon Kings As also a full description of the Knights of the Round Table UPon King Arthur's return he found to his unspeakable joy his fair Queen delivered of a lovely boy who by the advice of Merlyn he named Constantius whose Uictories and great Exploits that Prophet fore-told which after his Fathers death he succeeding him in his Throne exactly came to pass And now the joy being great throughout the Brittish Dominions all the Saxon Kings came to King Arthur's Court then removed to the then flourishing City of Hereford and made their Homage complementing him highly on his Marriage and the birth of his Son presenting the Queen and Royal Infant with great Presents as Iewels Gold and fragrant Spice of Arabia promising for them and their Heirs to be obedient to the Brittish Scepter though before and after the Death of King Arthur they brake their vows though to their great disadvantage For the young Prince almost as successful in War as his Father grasped the Kingdomes of the Mercians and East-Angles with so hard a hand that during his Life they could not wrest them from him but to our purpose King Arthur being the chief Favourite of Fortune and the eldest Son of Fame began to inlarge the splendor of his Court and increase the number of the Knights of the Round Table