so corrupted his minde and sense with wordes gifts that he consented to poyson his Lord and so hee did Conan loued quarrellours aboue other men he made away his owne vncle that should haue bin king and slew his two sonnes Ethelfride Duke of Northumberland massacred 1200. moonks of Bangor in a beastly immanitie to please Ethelbert king of Kent which had offered praiers to God against him Carencie was so giuen to ciuill warres that he loued them aboue all other acts wherby he fell into such hatred that hee was not able to stand against the Saxons Out of all question it is extreame madnesse to admit any strangers into our countrey that are eyther more militar or more politick then the commonaltie vnlesse it be for a time and then away with them or they be kept in their boundes with certaine companie and neither see nor heare more then belongeth to strangers what shuld strangers but be vsed strangely they pretend pouertie but they intend to weaken our land they flie for religion but they foster heresies draffe is their errand but drinke they would either they are diuels in their owne likenesse or else they are Angels with the entrals of Diuels foolish pitty destroyeth the Cittie prouide for the weakest the strongest can saue it selfe the malignant hand will spoyle the impotent people when it cannot spill the bloud of Nobles but if Hares wurry Hounds and Harts be wounded of Ferrets then is the world turnd vpside downe the Hunters are vile keepers and the keepers are vilest men Let Brutans be fedde and taught as is meete for them and let my life go if they make not their ennemies round about them like Hares and Ferrets which euer auoyd the presence of men Their vertue or temperance is in Life and maners the Clergy in the time of Cadwallin behaued themselues so soberly and fatherly in all points that they were honoured of most men insomuch that as they went too and fro in the streetes and other places the people would kneele downe to them and aske them their blessing and gaue them whatsoeuer they demanded Wordes Berine Bishop of Dorchester conuerted Kingelist the king of the Westsaxons and christened him which he could neuer haue done without most temperate and well seasoned speech by the like moderation Pauline conuerted Edwine king of Northumberland to the christian faith Melite Bishop of Caerlud conuerted Sebert king of Essex to Christian religion The Clergy of Kent delt so with their king Ercombert that he puld downe the Temples of his false Gods and kept the Lent fast and became a Christian When the Brutan Bishops saw that Austin took vpon him as their soueraigne they would not resist him presently but stayd a while to see his life and behauiour and then to vse them therafter either frendly or aduersly Liberalitie When Ethelfride had put away his wife being great with childe Cadwan receiued her into his Court and kept her honourably till shee was deliuered and so long after as shee would Osuald Duke of Bernicia liked so wel of Cedda Bishop of Winchester that hee gaue him land to build and Abbey thereon The more is giuen for the promotion of Gods Maiesty the more he giueth to our benefite Their vice or intemperance is in Loue When Ronowen had saluted Vortiger with a golden cup of wine and desired him to drinke of it he beheld her bewtie and was presently so inamored of her that he could not be quiet till he had put away his owne wife by whom he had three sons and married her and for her sake loued Saxons more then Brutans he lay with his owne daughter to haue issue of her but in vaine Vter fell in loue with Igerne the wife of Gorleis Duke of Cornewall and slewe him at his castell Tintagel and tooke her to wife Malgo fel into the sinne of Sodom and lost all that he had gotten aforetime let not sense rule reason Liberalitie Vortiger entertained Hengist and Horsus with their three ships he gaue them y e hire of souldiers he bestowed the Ile of Tenet vpon them hee graunted Hengist so much ground as hee could compasse with a buls hide he took away the Earldom of Kent from Garangon and gaue it him Anger Constantine the third siue one of Mordreds sonnes for rebelling against him euen in the Minster of Winchester the other for the same cause in the temple at Caerlud Dionote Abbot of Bangor would not yeeld to Austin because he was of another Prouince neither would he preach to the Saxons because they spoyled the land do Ethelbert king of Kent what he could vnto him The vertue or iustice is in Rewarding Constantine the second receiued the crowne and rule of Brutanie by a couenant that hee made with the Brutans when he deliuered them from the tyranny of the Picts When Aurely remembred how fast the Brutans resorted vnto him and Vter at their landing at Totnes and how truely they serued him in his warres did them one good turne for another and repaired their temples and houses which the Saxons destroyed and restored their religion to them againe Deuiding In the time of Carency it was determined at Worcester by a Councell of the chiefest men That the goodes of the Church should be bestowed on the Bishops their Clergy the Churches the poore people and then Gregory the great appointed the two Archbishops of Brutany at Caerbrank and Caerkent The Archbishop of S. Dauids had vnder thim these 7. Bishops Hereford Cardiff Landaff Bangor S. Asaph Worcester Morgan Punishing The Pictes to reuenge the death of the 100. Picts that garded Constance made war agaynst Vortiger the friends of Constance deuised to ouerthrow him for the death of their Prince thus he was tossed vp and downe the land that hee could not be safe The Brutans seeing Vortigers extreame affection toward the Saxons deposed him when hee was taken prisoner by Hengist they forsooke him Aurely and Vter burnt him to ashes in his Castle The Bishops refused Austin by the aduise of an old Anchorite who iudged him no man of God which vsed his brethren like his seruants Cadwan slew Edwine and Osricke and Eufricke Saxon kinges for the bloud of the Brutans which they had poured out like water on euery side of the Realme Burials Vortimer was buried solemnly at Caerlud Aurely Vter were buried at Stoneheng in Salsbury plaine Arthur was buried in the valley of Glascenbury Constantine the third at Stoneheng Vortipory Vortiger Malgo and Carency were not orderly buried for their vile liues Cadwan died in war and was buried accordingly Constance deserued his faire buriall Their vice or iniustice is in Couetousnesse Vortiger forgetting his loyaltie to his Prince abused him intollerably and got him by his own consent the strongest Castels and best treasure that he had he euer defended the 100. Pictes what naughtinesse soeuer they committed in the Court. Vnthankfulnesse the Brutans being desired by Vortimer on his death bed to bury his body at
24. yeares About this time the Saduces and Pharisees beganne their sects in Iewry now the warre of Iurguth began and ended nowe Tully was borne in the yeare of the world 3859 an hundred and three yeares before Christ Bledgabrede began 3860. and raigned 20. yeares in this time was Pompei borne into the world Redargy began 3880. and ruled 3. yeares in this time was I. Caesar borne into the world Samuly ruled two yeares Penisell three yeares Pirry raigned 2. yeares foure kinges in 10. yeares and ended in the yeare of the worlde 3890 in which time Antony and Crassus the Oratours of Roome and in Q.M. Scaeuola the Lawyer liued So these 24. kinges continued 166. yeares in the Gouernment of Brutanie Heere is no Topography heere is no place named they were now I may well say kinges Abstracts that they did it no where either incomprehēsibly like Gods or metaphisically like strange men The musicke of Bledgabred and the actions of the rest were belike in no place of any great account Yet because they were kinges and enioyed their kingdomes theyr doomes must needes be giuen somewhere and their cunning must needes be shewed in some place and that was euen the generall Land of Brutany without any particular nomination of lesse places Right Soueraignes and perfit kings whose Actes were vniuersall common to the whole realme not appropriate or fancied to any one Region therein If the head moue and guide the body it doth more then if it moue or guide one part thereof A generall praise is greatest and this was these kinges speciall glory aboue others to rule all places to rule the Land The best vse of one commendation or other is to encounter some one dispraise or other that hath been or may be but they that do all thinges well haue no neede themselues of particular History If Sily ruled 2. yeares suppose in reason hee was no silly one If the other kinges were kinges that was all in all A king cannot possibly be without his excellencies and memorials Now I diuine modestly heere were actors without recorders of their actions patrons of learning but no learned men or they were of both sortes but their studies came to no effect by some force or they were very old when they came to the Crown and could do nothing or the furies and helhoundes raged so extreamely that the Muses and Graces coulde not bee quiet for them or their actes were wrought in needle-worke onely and so worne out or the senses and senslesse desires so ruled them that theyr liues were not so short as their actes or the Histories were written in some strange kind of polygraphy and steganography and coulde neuer yet be read but remaine in some obscure place or they made little account of writers and these set as light by them or they that take most pains at their booke were not most regarded and thereupon studied to themselues or some infortunate and maleuolent configuration of mouable skies and starres and spirites remoued all Histories out of the way or the Kinges and People agreed among themselues to bee remembred by being not remembred wishing to haue their time called The vnknowe Regiment adiudging secrecie greatest wisedome or our Countrimen listened so much after other Noble Actors in the earth that they had no leisure to doe any thing themselues or they disdained to haue them theyr iudges after their death whom they would scorne to haue their iudges in their life or some outlandish enuy destroyed the rowles and registers of our Histories to make vs seem barbarous or the Vniuersitie men of Stamford had by some Priuiledge got them wiues and so forth and had no leisure to do any thing but liue or before the kings were crowned they were worthy men and after theyr coronations they fell to make books of nothing or they could tell how to get a Soueraigntie but they knewe not how to keepe it or they writ their Chronicle hieroglyphically and set the pictures of other creatures in the places of their kinges and by the ignorance of some carelesse men were esteemed as gaies and not otherwise regarded or it was not thus or so perhaps neither this nor that but some other way I cannot tell howe nor I care not greatly for feare I may bee thought neither idle nor well occupied Now good Reader albeit I ioyne a morall genealogy with a naturall and seeme to breake the stile of history yet because affections rule otherwhile asmuch as kinges I may truely say my deuise is allowable in itselfe Where issue wanteth in the Prince there the issue of the people is considered seeing some Princes are begotten of the people as some are of their parents these are heires by the law of particular nature and they by the reason of vniuersall nature and of grace As for the other partes of this third Offspring I hope they are seemely and fit enough for this place It is lawfull to make the best vse and most gaine that wee can honestly of anie thing that we read or write probable additions and reasonable collections are neuer amisse it is better of the two extreames to make more then wee neede of our Countreimen rather than make lesse of them then wee should superfluitie is not best nor scarcitie that history is most worth which doth a man most good THE FOVRTH GENEALOGY or issue of Capor LAbour the sonne of Parsimony the daughter of Queene Temperance made Capor a man of infinite wealth then Order the sonne of Reason the daughter of the Empresse Truth made him a man of greatest fauour in this Land by these two meanes ioyned with his royall bloud he became Ruler of Brutany and begat Dinel Dinel begat Hely Hely begat three sonnes the first Lud the second Cassiuelan the third Stenny Lud begat 2. sonnes the first Androgy the second Tenancy Then came Death and tooke away Lud and hys brother Stenny while his two sonnes were children and Age made Cassiuelan Ruler then came Discontent and begat Rage in the minde of Androgy that hee went away then arose Parentage and created Tenancy for the king Tenancy begat Cimbelin Cimbelin begat 2. sonnes the first Guinder the second Aruirage then came Deceite and slew Guinder then Deuise set forth Aruirage and made him right king Aruirage begat Marius of his wife Senissa the daughter of Claudius the Emperour Marius begat Coil the 2. Coil begat Lucy which dyed without issue These are the 11. heires males and successors of Capor in his kingdom for the Generation of Cassiuelan of Stenny of Androgy and of Guinder are vnknown the more is the pity seeing they were very singular men in their kinds Albranches of a tree prosper not euer some are withered rotten The Arts and Actes of Capor and the Caporites are seene by their Vertues and Vices Their Vertue or Iustice is in Defending and regarding Lud and Stenny were at great variance betweene themselues because Lud would haue the City of Troy new
Orcades and the Ile of Wight how can they so fill it that it may not be well named of Diana a desart in comparison of the Cities and Kingdomes in other landes where she abode most The name of Gogmagog is no more monstrous then the name of Onosconcoleros nor Tentagol more vast and strange then Nabuchodonozor neither shall those Names preiudice the Historie more with vs then these Names haue done with other in the Historie of the Assyrians Thus I may verie iustly and reasonably maintaine and vphold the historie of Brute for anie thing that master Buchanan hath said against it Concerning Dioclesian and his daughters I haue willingly lost all that delight of reading and answering although I see euidently that this Historie which you account a tale may be defended for ought you haue alledged Yet master Buchanan taketh much vpon him and chargeth some bodie with impudencie and a lye and plaieth the Terrible schoolemaster and yet when he hath done his best and his worst it is not proued that 24. yeares were not sufficient for Brutes retinue and the inhabitantes of this land togither with other of their kindred that resorted hither and remained here to replenish the Country with men of War to erect three kingdomes to accomplish great Actes by sea and land Let him looke into the kingdomes of Grecia in olde time and he shall finde fewer men in a kingdome then Brute alone with his companie might raise in 24. yeares let him remember the huge kingdomes of three men Sem Ham and Iaphet let him consider that mightie Actions are not done by money and number but by industry and vertue let him proue eyther that this Generation of Brute cannot possibly be true or else cease to spend his time with opinions and likelihoodes that may be repelled with the like againe rusty Antiquities more reuerend then scoured Nouelties Yet we are not desirous that Brute should be our Conquerour we wish not subiection to him or anie other outlandish Nobleman we had rather winne the land that this Brute came from and subdue it vnder our feete but when Brutans haue published an Historie and allowed it a long time we would not haue a Scot so presumptuous as to controll it much lesse to reiect it as this one Scot hath done very rawly and vnaduisedly So I leaue you master Buchanan and wishe you to sacrifice vnto the wiser dimi-goddesse Palinodia TO HIS MOST LOVING BROther Master Gabriell Haruey Doctor of Lawes WHen I saw both how iestingly and seriously our Historie of Brute was reiected of some auncient and newe bookmen I tried their maruellous iestes and reasons and felt them too weake to moue me Now my Answere is on foot with their Reply I may iustly hold mine owne and stand on Brutes side against all challengers that are or will come I saye Puissant Brute is no fabulous Prince but a true example no counterfeit man but a corporall possessor of this Iland let them saye what they can With this minde I haue here taken one Essay of our Chronicles in the best historicall Methode that I could make out of the best Historiognomers I am sure any Historie is easier for memorie and readier for vse this way then any other way which I haue hitherto seene in other mens Collections Tables Directories or any such other inuentions yet as it is proofe so approue it or reproue it I am not wedded to myselfe nor tyed to any sect in the world but heartily wish euery man to take euerie thing as it is not as it is made of this and that scribler or pratler which can tell better howe to play the mocking Ape then the iust controller Almightie God defend you dayly and amend them one day you know my minde in all my matters and that I would those petite Momes had better manners the schollers head without moderation is like the merchantes purse pennilesse without all credite I desire that euerie student may smell as the Lillies of Salomon and that euerie wilde Lilly may be set in his Gardens I saye out Hemlocke out Bramble out Weedes and let the bloud of furious Aiax himselfe saith Ouid be turned into a pleasant herbe I write not this to flatter any that should seeke after me but to follow you good Brother in your last Letters in whose Example I euer yet dwelt and am like to dwell euen till my Soule shall dwell in the Commonwealth of Heauen I cannot bid you farewell in a better minde and in this respect I set me rest here I remember your counsell and beginne my Essaye 1592. the 14. of Iune Your louing brother R.H. AN ESSAY OR TASTE OF THE first part of our Brutan Chronicles The History of Brute and Brutans setteth forth Principally and antecedently their persons in them sheweth the geneallogy or issue which they had artes which they studied actes which they did This part of History is named Anthropology Accessorily and consequently the times when they beganne to Rule How long they ruled This part of History is named Chronology places in the Iland of Brutany This part of History is named Topography out of the Iland of Brutany This part of History is named Topography When a man is borne into the world he learneth some thing or other by learning he is brought to do somwhat but as all deeds are done in the compasse of a place so are they bounded with their beginning and ending THE GENEALOGY OR ISSVE of Brute BRute the first begat three sonnes of Innogen the first was Locrine the second Camber the third Albanact Locrine the eldest sonne begat Madian of Guendolin and Habren of Elstrid which had a skinne as cleere and white as Iuory or Lillies or Snow it selfe Madian begat Memprise Memprise begat Ebranke Ebranke a very goodly person among thousands and strong begat Brute the second and nineteene sonnes and thirtie daughters these fiftie children were borne vnto him of twentie women Brute the second begat Leyl Leyl begat Hurdibras Hurdibras begat Bladud Bladud begat Leyr Leyr begat three daughters the first was Gonorill the second Ragan the third Cordeil but left no sonne behind him Cordeil the youngest daughter as it came to passe succeeded hir father but Morgan and Conedag her two nephewes deposed her Conedag the sonne of Ragan being prouoked by Morgan the sonne of Gonoril his coosin german slew him in battell and ruled alone and begat Riuall Riuall begat Gurgust and Sisill Gurgusts brother succeeded Gurgust and Iago Sisils next kinsman succeeded Sisill and Kymer Iagoes brother succeeded Iago and begat Gorbodug Gorbodug begat Ferrex and Porrex of Wyden whose generations and issues are vnknown to vs as the issues of Ebranks nine and fortie children are not knowne very well nor the generations of Camber of Albanact of Morgan of Gurgust of Sisill and of Iago Thus the eighteene Rulers that came of Brute the first are come to an end as a tale that is tolde in sport or as a tree
that is digged vp in earnest Yet neyther seuen Polydores more nor ten Buchanans shall perswade me that this Genealogy is a fabulous Tale. Let Polydore get him to Vrbin in Italy and Buchanan hye him to Buchany in Scotland it becommeth not these outlandish intruders to vsurpe the censure of the Brutan Histories if they looke well about them they haue enough to doe at home we neede none of their gossiping cups but they are dead and their historicall iudgementes are interred with them if any man will raise them from the graue who will beleeue their mortified Ghosts A Brutan may iustly except against the witnesse of an Italian or a Scot Ielousie and malignity are two blinde guids Then hold your owne ye braue Brutans and guide your selues your owne heades are fittest for your owne bodies THE ARTES AND ACTES OF Brute and his Brutans were in their Vertues and Vices Their vertue and Temperance appeared in Friendship and communion Betweene man wife in marriage Locrine married Guendolin Leyr married his two eldest daughters with two Dukes Cordeil was married to Aganip Duke of the Gaules for her womanly vertues and vertuous womanhoode Talke and conference Betweene superiour and inferiour the ruler and the subiect Guendolin after her husbandes death liued contentedly and louingly with her kindred and acquaintance in Cornewall till shee dyed Brute the second carried euer a greene shield with him to signifie what a minde he did carry withall euen a mind and desire to haue all thinges grow and florish like the fruitfull fieldes vnto a ioyful haruest whereupon hee was named Greeneshield a Prince gentle toward all men and merciful to the needie Leyl liued peaceably in his young dayes Hurdibras allayed the factions and quarrels that hee found among his people and of vnquiet men made them very quiet Leyr liued moderately with his subiectes Cordeil behaued her selfe so louingly and paciently that she would not punish the two sonnes of Maglan and Hennine for their fathers she thought it no reason to plaister one bodie for an other bodies sores to beate one for anothers fault Riual liued quietly Gurgustus kept his countrey in rest and wealthy peace by some learned counsell Betweene the father and the childe Cordeil being euer modestly and maydenly shamefaced either would not or could not flatter her father Leyr with needlesse phrases and vain othes but answered him mildly and simply without ostentation or deceite that she loued him as her naturall father with an obedient euer and thankfull hearth vnfainedly Betweene two coosins When Conedag was informed by his olde trustie friendes and tolde from his mortall ennemies that Morgan began roundly to make open warre agaynst him he himselfe desired peace by letters and sought it with all good meanes otherwise by Embassadours he was so vnwilling to shed bloud if he might chuse or euen to carry armour against his kinsman THIS WAS THEIR TEMPERANCE in Deedes and Wordes Their vice and Intemperance appeared in Wordes First Gonoril told Leyr she loued him more then her owne soule then Ragan sayd she loued him vnspeakably Leuity When Locrin saw Elstrid he would haue reiected Guendolin Memprise liued loosely and spent most of his time in pastime and licentious games Drinke Gurgust by some naturall infirmitie of braine was dronken once a day this dronkennesse neither shortened his life nor hindered his actions as it seemeth by the yeares of his gouernement and life Discord Madian was subiect to much impatience and tyrannie Memprise procured the death of those great men whom hee feared for their vertue and therefore hated for his owne guiltie life Venery Locrine kept Elstrid his captiue for his Concubine and accompanied her a long time too long by sixe yeares and twelue monethes Memprise solde himselfe to adultery he gaue his body to buggery and beastly loue which was loue sauing your reuerence Ebrank had twentie wiues some saye but I think nineteene of them were huswifes as we commonly saye and she his wife onely that married him and knew him first A right line is betweene two to go aside is to go amisse Their vertue or wisdome is seene in Discipline or desire of knowledge Madian though he were borne a mortall Prince or earthly God was in his childhood sent into Cornewall to his most valiant grandsir Corin that he might learne of him all experienced manhood fit for a soueraigne Ruler Bladud in his young yeares was sent otherwise and carried ouer seas to Athenes that hee might forsooth be taught the wisedome of the Grecians this Athenian English Prince at his returne brought home with him no lesse then foure great Philosophers to teach the Brutans and either found or founded Schooles for them at Stamford or Stanefoda after the smoothest and Atticall Idiome Artes both Geometry and Astrology Brute presently vpon his Arriuall searched this Iland optically and throughly he and his surueyed it quantitatiuely and queintly to the purpose Hurdibras taking in his head and hand to build the cittie or woodworke stone-worke of Caerpalladour called for the iudiciall aduise deuise of Aquila his Astrologer in laying the foundations of that starry and elementary Citty that the worlde might better esteeme it Philosophy both naturall and morall the foure wisemen of Athens that taught some of the Brutans euen as Bladud the king appointed them had many times for their variable and strange voices a wonderfull great audience and those wisemens schollers succeeded them and continued orderly about the times of fourteene hundred yeares after with great glorie but but how good I knowe not Bladud found the hote Bathes in this Iland by his Geomanticall and Hydromanticall skill and subtiltie Brute the first made many good politicke laws for the benefit direction of himselfe and his subiectes Guendolin ministred true iudgement to the people well and wisely at last fearing by reason or inspiration that the king Madian her sonne would scarsely vse her Honourably as the son should vse his mother went her way and dwelt far enough ought of sight in Cornewall among them that were glad euer of her daily company Ebranke for his sonnes sake and his owne sent his thirtie daughters to Siluius an Italian Duke that they might be married with their owne bloud the old Troian bloud and thereby get their father many friendes or welwillers abroad to strengthen him in his neede if nede were Wordes of counsell Cordeil tolde her father in a melancholicke vaine That as his riches were more or lesse so he should be loued and feared more and lesse This was their Prudence in teaching and learning Their vice or folly is seene in Deceite by bulding Locrine for want of better conueiance built a caue for his Concubine and made some few men of his priuy Counsell but tolde other men that it was a secret place for praier and sacrifice in the maner of his owne outlandish religion when he heard and knew of Corins death he crowned Elstrid queene and reiected Guendolin whom he seemed to
loue hitherto for feare of Corin and not for liking Deceit by weapons Memprise slewe his manly brother Manlius by faithlesse craft to be out of his emulatiue danger and dangerous emulation Magicals Bladud dedicated his Bathes to Minerua a dead woman he taught Necromancy in all parts of his country he vndertooke to flie aloft in the ayre with deuised winges and meanes artificially and so fell downe inartificially and died sensibly neither could he become admirable this way as he hoped Wordes Leyr forgetting his Honour asked his three daughters a fond needlesse question as some vse to dally with young children and would forsooth heare of them that were women grown How much they loued him they might haue shewed on their finger Ignorance the Gyantes of this Iland being onely strong and wild men without any great forecast were subdued for want of arte and gouernment Sisill let all matters go and runne at auenture Iago had the same vile fault and died of a frensie as he liued with a megrim Their vertue fortitude is known by their Acts in Peace These honourable Rulers approoued their Princely magnificence and Philotimy in a braue maner Brute the first named this Iland Brutanie of his owne Noble and famous Name He built a fortunate Cittie by the Tems and called it Troy-new in perpetuall honour of his owne Countrey Ebranke built a faire Cittie in hys land Northward which he called Caerbranke after his owne name He built another Cittie with a Castle in Albany and called it Edenbrough in regard of his daughters Leyl built a Citie in this land Northward which he called Caerleyl by his own name Leyr built a Citie in the midst of his land and called it Caerleyr in respect of his owne name Thus they purchased their Glorie with heroicall expences and publicke actions profitably Then the vertuous subiectes shewed their excellent magnanimitie in good sorte They suffered not Madian to rule ouer them till hee was able to carry armour in the Field and lead an armie Duke Corin went to king Locrin with his ordinary battle Axe in his hand and behaued himselfe so manly and plainly with the king that he would not or durst not reiect Guendolin his spouse as he before had purposed Good warly rhetoricke Warre at home Those Dukes Maglan and Hennine suffred not their wiues king Leyrs two eldest daughters to be kept frō the Crowne by Cordeil the youngest daughter Locrin fought with Humber and flewe him in battle because he had slaine his younger brother Albanact the Prince and ruler of Albany Conedag and Morgan the sons of those two Dukes deposed euen Cordeil their aunt from hir vsurpation and royall gouernment Conedag defended his land against Morgan and put him to flight and slewe him and ioyned Morgans kingdome to his owne Guendolin the queene gathered an army against her husband Locrin the king and in their conflict he was slaine with an arrow abroad Ebranke got great victories and rich spoiles both in strange countries far off neere hand then returned home with his mony and men in safety ioy it is no lesse courage to get out of troble then to go through it This was their Fortitude in doing for their friends and vndoing their foes Their vice or extream fortitude is knowen by Couetous ambition Manly warred with his elder brother Memprise to depriue him of the kingdome accounting it his owne if he could win it Leyrs two sons in law Maglane and Hennine expelled him out of his land and vsurped his place a while no time to count of Morgan raised war against Conedag his coosin german with whom he liued neighbourly aforetime but now he aspired to Conedags kingdome Porrex made sodaine war vpon Ferrex his brother and put him to flight and slewe him to be ruler himselfe alone Audacious anger When the people might do what they would in the raigne of Sisill they being naturally giuen to fighting fell to ciuil war among themselues and spilt much innocent bloud Rage is blinde villanes somtime turne wars to their vile vses Pusillanimity or base idlenesse Leyl for want of a good heart coulde not rule his subiectes when he was olde Cordeyl being at her wits end despaired of her libertie and murdered her selfe in prison Gorbodug liued without any memorable act like an idiote or a verie swaine Sisill by continuall ease fell into many colde and phlegmaticke diseases and at last a lethargy made an end of him as hee sowed so hee reaped of a lasie life came a lothsome death Their vertue or Iustice is proued in Diuiding in the generations of the eighteene kings the Crown is euer iustly possessed either by the sons or by the brethren or by the next of the kings bloud except the next to king Leyr Brute the first deuided Brutany among his three sonnes the eldest had the best third the youngest the worst part the middle sonne the meane part not so good as the best nor so ill as the worst Ebranke built a Temple in Caerbrank and appoynted an archflamin to ouersee it Leyl built a Temple in Caerleyl and ordained a flamin to rule ouer it Hurdibras built Caerkent Caeruin and Caerpalladour for the benefit of the countrey and in euery of them he made a Temple Bladud built a Temple in his Citie Caerbadon which was made by him for theyr vse that kept the Bathes or came to them Conedag and Morgan the sonnes of two sisters parted Brutany betweene them and liued quietly So did Ferrex and Porrex two brethren for a time but the comedie became a tragedie Rewarding Brute the first gaue Cornewall to Corin his fellowsouldier for ouercomming Gogmagog the Gyant in wrastling Locrin bestowed the spoyles of Humbers armies vpō the souldiers that woon them in battell Cordeil welcomed her father Leyr most reuerently when he fled vnto her for succour and restored him to his kingdom Kymar kept his land in right frame and order by giuing all braue men that they truely deserued the chiefe pollicy with good natures Challenging Corin seeing changeable affections of Locrin charged him with a promise and contract made betweene him and Guendolin and vrged him so straitly and seuerely that hee made him content to stand to his word the rather for that good seruice which Corin did his father Brute Reuenging Locrin reuenged the death of Albanact his brother with the death of Humber Guendolin fought against her owne husband to plague him for his whoredome and other iniuries and prouided so well for her selfe that in the triall of their Cause hee was slaine and his whore drowned with her base daughter the fiery and deceitfull roote Baaras with the leafe Conedag and Morgan deposed Cordeil from the kingdom which she held from them a long time with some title by her father though insufficient seeing these were the sonnes of her eldest sisters Wyden with her waiting women chopped her sonne Porrex in peeces by night for killing his brother Ferrex without any iust cause
if he had not his kingdome of him againe He spoyled the Temple of Macedonia in despite of all gouernment Pusillanimitie Elidure was content to bee taken and prisoned rather then giue any cause of bloudshed among his people by meanes of warre Their Vertue or Prudence is set forth in Writinges Mulmucy made many positiue lawes in his natiue language and caused them to be published that all men might read them for their direction and better aduisement Marcia a queene made many statutes to teach the subiects aright and easie way of morall life Right in respect of the crooked way and easie in respect of the loose and carelesse way which breedeth sorrowes Doinges Mulmucie fauoured all learned men of all kindes being minded to vse euery one in his mistery Belin fortified the late kingdome of his brother and now his owne kingdome with his owne souldiers and put out all Brens men for his sake and his owne safetie hee allowed his fathers lawes for his time lesse any man should obiectiuely quarrell with him Archigall seeing by dayly experience the dayly miseries of a wicked and inconsiderate life learned a new lesson and led his life orderly euer after Bren knowing his owne bodily beautie applied himselfe to that vaine and got goodwill by marrying great women in forraine Landes when he could not stay at home Belin was more carefull of his owne land then for outlandish goodes and returned from Gallia to Brutanie where his greatest charge was Their vice or folly is in Conceite or opinion Mulmucy dedicated a Temple to Apollo as if the dead man were wise and mightie Ignoraunce Elane ruled fondly and vnrulily Presumption Morind fought with a Sea monster and made no man of his counsell herein Improuidence Kymar was slaine by his enemies in time of hunting where they tooke him alone at a dead vantage The best Remedie against Follies Wichery is a tryall of all causes which belong to any effect Hee that can follow this Rule infallibly cannot be foyled in his Actions Their Vertue or Tēperance is known by Liberalitie Mulmucy accounting the Cittie and the Countrey two pillars of his kingdome priuiledged the waies which went to Citties and which were for plowes that the Cittizens and husbandmen of the land might be loued the more and better vsed for their immunities among themselues and with souldiers Bren gaue much treasure to his Noble Lordes in little Brutanie to winne their goodwill and wage battell with their helpe against Belin. A man alone is but halfe himselfe Marriage Bren married the Duke Elfinges daughter in Norway he married the dukes onely daughter of little Brutany and thereby was mightie in both places for fauour and power but I cannot tell certainly what became of his first wife he was an od man of wit and practise Concord Conwen the mother of Belin and Bren ioyned her two sonnes in one yea euen them two which was somewhat strange but what may not wordes do if they be well tempered and seasoned with true modestie when they were readie with their armies to ioyne in battell insomuch that straitwaies they ruled their former rages and went brotherly together against the common enemy Gurguint liued peaceably so did Guintelin so did Sisill the second so did Kymar the second so did Gorboman the second A sober heart maketh peace a drunken head strife Mercie Gurguint meeting with a Nauy of 30. strange shippes in the Scottish Seas and seeing plainly their extreame neede and hearing withall their pittifull Supplication gaue them his goodwill to dwell in Ireland and assured them of his good fauour so long as they liued well and neighbourly Elidure for his notable mildnesse and mercifull nature was named Meeke he heartily lamented his brother Archigals poore and wretched estate therefore he fayned himselfe sicke that by these meanes all his Noblemen and Lordes might come and visite him and at their being with him hee sued to them as it had been for his life That he might resigne his kingdom vnto Archigall Their Vice or Intemperance is known by Anger Morind was outragious alwaies and intollerable in his heate Maleuolence Archigall gaue himselfe to breede quarrels chiefly against his Noblemen and Rich-men Incontinency Bren being wounded to death in a tempest sent from the cloudes slew himselfe in a desperate rage Who can saue him whom God hateth It was wonderous that the Heauens should fight for Apollo I may thinke the Sprite of the Ayre was suffered to play this part to vpholde Apollonisme THE CHRONOLOGY OF Clotos offspring AFter the yeare of the worldes Creation 3480. there was ciuill Warre continually in this Iland for the space of 50. yeares in which time vainglorious Xerxes was weakened of the Greekes both by Sea and Land then the 12. Tables of Lawes were brought to Roome then Euripides was born then Esdras began to restore the Temple at Ierusalem Mulmucy began in the yeare 3530. and raigned 40. yeares in which time Bellum Peloponnesiacum began and ended then Socrates died violently by poyson malice Belin began in the yeare 3570. raigned 26. yeares in the first fiue yeares he and his brother Bren liued quietly together in this time Roome was taken of the Gauls now Aristotle was borne may the world be glad thereof Gurguint began in the yeare 3596. and raigned 19. yeares in this time Xenophons greeke History is ended now Alexander the great is borne to begin a peece of a new world Guintelin beganne 3615. and ruled 26. yeares in which time Plato dyed the more the pitie then Isocrates and Demosthenes plaied their partes with Philip then the Greeke Monarchy began to go on foote hereabout Buchanan begins his Scottish kinges 330. yeares before Christes Natiuitie Sisill began 3641. and ruled 7. yeares in this time Alexanders kingdoms were deuided betweene his worthies Kymar the second began 3648. and ruled 3. yeares in this time Cassander restoreth the Cittie Thebes the 20. yeare after Alexander destroyed it Elane began 3651. and raigned 9. yeares in this time Seleucus beganne his raigne in Syria and Demetrius deliuered Athens from the Macedonian yoke Morind began 3660. and raigned 8. yeares in this time Flauius a Secretary published the Ciuill Lawe which the high Priest onely knew aforetime Gorboman began 3668. and raigned 11. yeares in which time Decius the sonne deuoted himself to death for his Country Rome in the wars of the Samnites Archigall began 3679. and ruled 5. yeares in this time the Consul T. Coruncanus began first to professe the Ciuill Law now Pirrhus the Epyrote made warre with the Romans Elidure began 3684. and ruled 5. yeares in this time Ptolomeus Philadelphus entertained many learned and wise men Archigal began again 3689. and ruled 10. yeares Elidure began againe 3699. and ruled 2. yeares Vigeny and Peredure began 3701. and ruled 9. years in this time the 70. translated the Bible into greeke in this time the first Punick war beganne now Phalereus the Rhetorician now Theocritus the Poet now Euclides
in wedlocke with the Pictes whom they knew to be barbarous Scythians by discent of bodies and consent of mindes and very vnfaithfull Their vice or intemperance is in Rashnesse Hirelda and Eueline two knightes in gaming fell to wrastling and in heate fell to wordes and in anger fell to blowes in rage fell to wounds and Hirelda was slaine in the tumult that arose by these meanes A gaming not so profitable as the death of a good knight is hurtfull in a realme Disobedience Eueline being sent for by the Protector Cassiuelan and the Councell departed from the Court with Androgy his kinsman and tooke no leaue of them Will is it selfe witlesse a stomacke without a heart maketh a man a swine Reuenge Aruirage vsed such meanes that he got Hammon the Romane who siue his brother Guinder guilefully and when he had him in his handes he caused him to be cut in peeces and threw him peece by peece into the Sea at South-hampton satisfying herein his insaciable anger for his brothers death and supposing vainly and madly that he killed Hamon so many times as he had peeces of him Their vertue or fortitude is in Glorious desire Hely called the Ile of Ely after hys name that he might be famous for euer Marius set vp a Colosse in remembrance of the victory he had of the Picts with Marij Victoria grauen in it a warly Register Magnificence Lud repaired olde Temples and Cities and built new He made walles about Troynew and called the West gate Ludgate in honour of hys owne name and then dwelt most there because he had built most there Aruirage road about the realme to renew the decayed Cities which the Romans defaced he built a Castle at Douer to strengthen that part of the Land against forraigne Powers Wordes When the Romanes thought to terrifie the Brutans by their letters these sent them word that as they must so they would defend their Countrey from all forces Aruirage being for his Noblenesse made the Emperours sonne in law and wishing to haue a memoriall of Claudius his queenes and wiues owne father called the Cittie where he married Claudiocestria or Glocester the rather to be free frō tribute in respect of his wife though he were free of himselfe by his vertue Victories Cassiuelan made the Romans flie to their ships at their first battell and at the second beware the third Desertes Cymbelin in his youth led so manly a life in Roome that the Emperour Augustus made him a knight there in his order of knightes Exercise Hirelda and Eueline two braue knightes wrastled openly at the Feast which was made after the victories against the Romanes Warre Guinder denied to pay tribute to the Romans chose rather to sight with them then yeald otherwise Aruirage did the like and when they came against him he made them flie from the southeast part of this Iland to the southwest there he draue them from Excester and Totnes within seuen daies made all well Marius staied the fire and sword of the Picts in Albany and slew their armies Deuise Aruirage seeing his brother Guinder dead took on him presently his armour and Princely cognisāce that the Brutans might not suspect their kings death and be discomforted then hee continued the battel so stedfastly and heartily that the Brutans were stirred vp to fight valiantly by his liuely example till they ouerthrew the Romans Their vice or extreme fortitude is in Bold rashnesse Stenny Cassiuelans brother in the wars against the Romans canne to I. Caesar and puld hys sword out of his hand and slew Labienus a tribune of the Romans therewith and was slaine Obscure glory When Stenny was dead he was buried at Caerlud and the sword which he puld from Caesar with his deaths wound was buried with him that it might be a remembrance of one venturous action euen in a hole Abasement Cassiuelan was tributary to Roome nine yeares Tenancy was too deligent in paying tribute to Rome euen 3000. pounds in gold Cimbelin hauing choice to pay or not to pay tribute forgat the slauery of the act and payd it Aruirage was perswaded by his wife to pay tribute when he had resisted the Romanes valiantly He should haue sent such a wife for the tribute vnto Roome from whence she came and kept the mony in his cofers for warres Coil saw in his poreblinde eyes that it was best to yeald to Roome and agreed to pay tribute Androgy departed to Roome with Caesar a mad and fickle courage THE TIMES OF THESE KINGS CApor began his raigne in the yeare of the world 3894. and raigned two yeares now Mithridates raised warres in Asia and Lucullus was sent against him Dinel began in the yeare 3894. and rule 4. yeares in this time Verres spoiled Sicilia three yeares together now Vergill the Poet was borne Hely beganne 3898. and raigned one yeare in this time Hortentius the Oratour flourished in Roome Lud began 3899. and rule 11. yeares in this time the Poet Horace was borne the conspiracie of Catiline was detected Ierusalem was taken of Pompey Caesar entered the wars in Gallia Cassiuelan began 3910. and rule 19. yeares in this time M. Crassus spoyled the Temple of Ierusalem the ciuill wars began betweene Caesar and Pompey Caesar corrected the Roman yeare Ouid the Poet was borne Tenancy began 3929. and raigned 23. yeares in this time Mecaenas liued the patrone of Horace Vergill and other learned men and gouerned Roome and Italy in the absence of Caesar Augustus so named for that reuerence was giuen him in a diuine maner now Vergill dyed Cymbelin began 3952. and raigned 35. yeares now Horace died the Angel Gabriel was sent to Zachary and Mary Christ was borne the 13. yeare of his raigne Onid and Liuy dyed Guinder began 3987. and ruled 28. yeares nowe Iohn-baptist preached and was slaine Christ taught the Iewes Paul was conuerted Iames was slaine Seneca was made Neroes teacher Aruirage began 4015. and ruled 30. yeares in this time Paul did most of his Actes Iames the lesse was stoned 70000. Romanes were slaine of the Brutans Paul was beheaded Peter crucified Seneca and Lucan bled to death Marius began 4045. and raigned 52. yeares in this time Iohn euangelist writ his Reuelation Plutark and Tacitus liued Timothy was stoned Dyonisius slaine with the sword Coil began 4097. and raigned 54. yeares now Ptolony and Galen liued the Christians by their praier got a strange victory of the Marcomanni and obtained a mighty great raigne from heauen now Lent was appointed by Telesphorus Lucy began 4151. and ruled 12. yeares in this time the Gospel was first preached in Brutany by Fugacius and Damianus Commodus would be called Hercules and Deus but was strangled of his owne man in Vestilians house So this Generation of Capor and the 11. Caporites ended in the yeare of the world 4163. and seeme to haue endured the times of 274. yeares in the kingdome of Brutanie THE PLACES IN THIS HISTORY The places are
Persecuting Maximinian liuing quietly and honourably both because he was a chosen Prince married a Brutan kings daughter was not content with the Brutans due reuerence toward him but he sought meanes to destroy them yea the most honest and innocent men among them euen the good Christians which were like harmelesse lambes in the Land whom he persecuted vnrighteously vpon the opinion of his owne heathenish religion more then any right iudgement A true christian neuer deserueth death he is so moderate and reasonable in al points so that he is most vniust that will trouble such a man Hee that aforetime was iniurious to a Philosopher was accounted a tyrant but he that tormenteth a true Christian which is a true Philosopher and a perfite wise man is worthy to be iudged a deuill incarnate a bloudsuccour a monstrous man Such a man was Maximinian and may well be chronicled the king with the hellish heart and bloudy hand Their vertue or temperance is in Marriage Helen the daughter of Coil the third married Constantius a Roman by the agreemēt of the Brutans not on her owne head lesse she should seeme incontinent she was but a part of hir countrey not aboue it or out of it Octauy married his daughter to Maximinian a Roman by the consent of his Lordes lesse he should seeme to make more of his owne will then the benefite of all other men a publicke matter must be allowed publikly of them whom it concerneth most Dionote Duke of Cornwall sent his daughter Vrsula and 11000. Virgins with her to Conan a Brutan the king of Armorica that he should not ioyne himselfe and his knightes and men with strange bloud but with very right Brutans Conan desired this and Dionote perfourmed it both constant and prouident to auoide confusion of nations which causeth all Tragedies and Rages in the end Wordes and liberalitie Constantius was a man of speciall affabilitie familiaritie with all his men which propertie if he had not at Roome he learned in Brutanie where the people are generally of freest heartes fardest from bondage and must bee well vsed in speach of all thinges he was of a singular liberalitie he cared more for his subiects goodes then his owne his saying was That wealth doth more good in many handes then in few or none or in the Princes Treasure house a saying farre enough from tyranny Octauy so behaued himselfe toward the Brutans of all sortes in the time of his Royal Lieuetenantship that all men for the moste part fauoured and furthered him greatly euen to the attainement of the kingdome it selfe the chiefest wonders and noblest acts and famous thinges haue euer commonly begunne and ended with the power of wordes the ordering of wordes maketh a man aboue beastes and that man a king of men that can order them best of all other Maximinian gaue the country of Armorica to Conan a Brutan to hold it from him and his heires for euer and to content him for missing the kingdome of great Brutany by this meanes they were good friendes at the last and forgat old enmities Toleration Constantine the sonne of Helen suffered the Brutans to vse their religion he was no tyrant in forcing them against their consciences as other had been although he were a Pagan because he desired chiefly to keep them in peace See what a good mother doth otherwhile in time of neede I beleeue Helen played the Princely Oratour for Christians and defended them before her sonne for good men and good subiects and was their best friend in Brutany next the inuisible and immortall defence that came from heauen and bred a desire of peace in Constantines minde by besetting him with businesse on euery side Their vice or intemperance is in Flattery Carasse being vnable to ouerthrow the Picts and louing them somwhat for helping him against the Romanes stoode in a maze betweene hope and feare and gaue them a part of Albany for their possessions that they might be quiet and not stirre vp warre against him liberalitie or courtesie shewed to a barbarous nature is a weapon turned vpon your selfe Bores and Bares cannot vnderstand fayre wordes and deedes neuer hold vp a candle to the diuell Rusticitie Constantius was of so vile prouision in housekeeping though he were a king that on festiuall dayes hee borrowed plate of his friendes to furnish his tables and cupbordes therewith It is an vnseemly thing for any man to set forth himself with other mens goodes it is small credite for a scholler to seeke credite by vsing that oration or sermon that is not his owne among all men a Prince must be sufficient of himselfe for all matters that pertaine vnto him if he be deficient his grace is lost his maiestie diminishyd and hee euen rurified like a priuate subiect Let not the beastes eate mans flesh in anie case lesse they loue it Their vertue or prudence is in Discerning Helen in her virginitie was learned in all points of true morall wisedome afterward eyther by some diuine inspiration or by some humane information at Hierusalem shee found the Crosse whereon Christ was crucified and the three nayles wherewith he was nayled they that seeke in zeale shall finde in ioy Constantine vsed to haue the booke of God which is the Spirite and Rule of Regiment carried before him wheresoeuer he want he caused the Bible to be copyed out and sent into the partes of his kingdome he sawe by a vision a crosse in heauen with these wordes vpon it In this signe is victory Such are the heauenly fruites of a heauenly minde so we shall reape euer as we sowe Prouiding Octauy being restored to his kingdome gathered together infinite riches to be better able then he was aforetime to wage warre against the ambitious and laborious Romanes Souldiers run to the greatest pay He sent for Maximinian coosin german to Constantine the Emperor and offered him his daughter in his life time lesse hee should be marred with ill Counsell and married to another after his death which he perceiued to be at hand guide them that cannot guide themselues Maximinian made his sonne Victor fellow with the Emperour of Roome that he might strengthen himselfe on both sides both at home and abroad it is surer standing on two legges then on one surer holding with two handes then with one Their vice or imprudence is in Murder An Earle of Brutany that fauoured Octauy much seeing how wofully he was fled into Norway for feare of Traherne and the Romanes which ouercame him in Westmerland considering in his hot wit that Traherne being Helens vncle and a Brutan ought not to haue done such wrong for the Romans sakes to the king of Brutany but haue rather fought for him neither vndermined him one way nor other but with a butcherly wisedome layd violent handes vpon him and slewe him that Octauy might returne safely into the realme againe Defect of inuention turneth a man into a bloudy beast Improuidence Maximinian gathered his riches
Brutans and lost it by his quarrellous nature so Cadwan was chosen king and hee begat Cadwallin the king who died and left no seed behinde him then Cadwallader by his Noblenesse and manhood together obtained the Crowne and dyed without issue and was the last king of the Brutans in the seate of Locrine But who can tell the genealogies of Camber how happy is hee in his dwelling places which no man taketh from him His loynes are like a springing well he runneth within his bankes and is not stopped surely his Riuer is one of Gods Riuers his Hils are the mountaines of Safety Locrine lay more open to the windes then Camber hys braunches are dryed vp with the Northeast windes and the boysterous stormes haue broken them but Camber had the fauourable Westwindes euer in his borders The waters of Camber grow full of soothsaying reedes the pens of Writers haue set him in more honour then hys brethren he alone vpholdeth his fathers house The great God of the world keepe him euermore with his inuincible right hand and stretched out arme make his naule whole and fil his bones with marrow and heat giue him plentie of the fruites of the earth and increase his cattle without number leade forth hys sonnes in Triumphs and his daughters to the marriages of the mightiest make hym blessed among all the nations of men and raise vp the meanest of his people to renowne and glory exalt thy frendes and conuert thy foes fill thy coasts with all earthly and heauenly ioyes that be or may be THEIR ARTES AND ACTES are in their Vertues and Vices Their vertue or prudence is in Discipline When Constantine the second saw that his eldest sonne Constancy was slow of wit and giuen to be solitary he made him a moonke in the Abbey of Saint Swithune in Caerguent and committed his other two sonnes to Guetheline Archbishop of Caerlud to be taught If children be set into that way which they haue most minde vnto they will prooue best in that way A yoong Prince cannot bee brought vp better vnder any then vnder a reuerend Princely churchman seeing they are both pastors of the people and bishops of men Prouidence the two sonnes of Constantine being vnable to get the Crowne by might of arms and fearing that treason should be wrought against them as it was against their eldest brother looked to the safetie of their liues and fled into little Brutanie If we cannot do that is right and due the best way is to saue the principall that is most worth It is no shame to flie when resisting is wilful death Bruciuall saued 50. moonks of Bangor by flying from Ethelfride duke of Northumbeland when 1200. had been slaine by him The Bishops of Caerlud and Caerbranke in Carencies time fled to Rome for feare of the cruel Saxons and dealt so wisely with Pope Gregory that they were saued from bloudy handes Doctrine Aurely desiring to teach the Brutans to beware of outlandish friendship which had in his days so intrapped and infected them caused Merlin by his Art Soueraigne to fetch the great stones out of Ireland which are now vpon Salsbury plain and set them neere the place where Hengist and the Saxons against their Oath did murder hundreds of the best Brutans with kniues secretly prouided for the purpose and tooke Vortiger their king prisoner and ransomed him at their pleasure That when they should see those stones or heare of them they might remember the stony heartes of outlandish friendes the hypocrisie of Saxons the vntrueth of strangers and either appoint them true ouerseers or els away with them out of the Land Gouernement Vter after hys brother Aurelius death ruled the Realme so orderly and circumspectly both in respect of trecherous flatteries and trusty friendship and all matters both common and extraordinarie that he was surnamed Pendragon A Prince as mightie and subtle among men as the Dragon is among the beastes of the field A good name is a treasure but why do men commend a man which ought to be the phrase onely of dispraise Hee that can shut his handes from straungers as Vter did shall preuent many woes Arthur disposed all things in order sailed into Gallia left his nephew Mordred for king and wrought great myracles abroad It had been more wisedome to haue wrought them at home if they were good to do his owne people good or if they were deceites to haue practised them priuily that his name might not be blotted and diminished Their vice or imprudence is in Credulitie Constantine the second fauoured a Pict so much that he might haue accesse to him at all times euen into his bed chamber though hee had been the greatest enemy that the Picts had in Brutanie manie yeares this Pict knewe it too well and wayted his time and at last tooke him alone and slew him in his bed chamber Straungers cannot be true friendes if they and we haue at any time been at ods Thy desire to pleasure vs with their seruice to serue vs such a turne as the Fox doth the simple Kid or Lambe Vortiger entertained Hengist the second time for this daughters sake that is one foe for another foes sake he neuer imagined that Hengist was his foe though Vortimer his son had chafed him and chased him out of the land he met him on Salsbury plaine to intreate of peace that should be betweene them came peaceably with his men as the agreement was without weapons but presuming childishly that all was well when nothing could possibly be safe in any reason hee searched not Hengistes company to see if they carried any weapons vnder their long gowns and by this babish credulitie spoiled himselfe of his libertie and 460. noblemen Brutans of their liues When Aurely lay sick in his bed his friends that wer about him being as sick in their wits as he was in his body suffered a Saxon to be hys Phisition to minister vnto him till he poisoned him If the Brutans knew not that he was a Saxon they were vnreasonable to take they knew not whō if they knew him and yet trusted in his helpe they were senselesse and vtterly out of their wits Cadwallin ioyned in friendship with Penda a Saxon but afterward hee neuer thriued in any wars which hee tooke in hand as he did aforetime hee that could not see that the Saxon would onely vndermine him was vnwise he that would trust him at all was not wise seeing he might liue well inough without his help Dissimulation Vortiger Duke of Cornewall prouided king Constance the Sheep a gard of 100 Wolues or Picts and then vsed all means to please them with words and gifts when he had made them dronken hee complained to them of his pouertie euen with teares anon they deuised such an helpe for him as they could he so pierced their headlesse heartes and heartlesse heades that assoone as he was gone from them in sorrow they followed him with the head of