And thryce I shrinkte aside and shund the sight: And three times thryce I wishte myselfe away: Eke thryce from thence there flew a flashe of light, Three times I sawe them coming make their staye: At laste they all approchte in such array, With sundrie shewes, appearing vnto mee, A straunger sighte then erste with eyes I see. Men mighty bigge, in plaine and straunge attyre, But some with wounds and bloud were so disguisde, You scarcely could with reasons ayde aspire, To know what warre such cruell death deuisde: But sithe I haue their formes beneath comprisde, Wheras their stories seuerally I showe, Your selfe therby their cause of death may know. [102] And eke their faces all and bodies were. ib. [103] Make my fearful harte. ib. [104] For my life eschewe. ib. [105] Their, ib. [106] For Morpheus wilde me byde and bad them tell. ib. [107] Globe, ib. [108] A person tall wide woundes in breste. ib. [109] And as to speake he wiste he might be bolde. ib. [110] Vnquoth, N. [111] But thus. ed. 1575. [112] Some copies of Niccols have a castration of this Induction with some trifling difference of orthography. [113] The story of Brutus, or Brute, as here related by his son Albanact, closely versifies the principal incidents of his history given in the Chronicle of Saint Albans; an authority probably referred to by Higgins in the prefaratory address as “an olde chronicle imprinted the year 1515,” that being the date of one of the editions printed by W. de Worde. [114] Me first of all the princes of this lande. ed. 1575. [115] Behold mee here. N. [116] Then shalt thou see, what tale I mynde to frame. ed. 1575. [117] The following stanza is second in edition 1575. So if thou liste to heare what I recite, If thou intende to showe my fatall fall: I praye thee take the paynes my tale to wryte, As I in order here repeate it shall, What nedst thou muse? thou nedst not feare at all. Syth those that later liu’de their tales haue tolde, Our elder liues to write thou mayst be bolde. [118] Dreade, ed. 1575. [119] Ne haue dispaire of so vncouched ryme. ib. [120] Of. N. [121] Then why he flying from the Latin land Did saile the seas and found the Briton strand. N. [122] Greeuous. ed. 1575. [123] The following omitted stanza from ed. 1575. Well nowe I see thou putst apart thy fright, (And giuste an eare to heare not heard before) I will declare the storie all so right, Thou shalt no whit haue neede t’inquire no more; Do marke me well what I recite therefore, And after write it and therewith my name, Let hardly me receiue if ought be blame. [124] And reign’de iii yeares, Ascanius then his sonne, Reignde next to him, eke Siluius was his heyre, Begate my father, of a Lady fayre. ib. [125] Strook. N. [126] “An arrow with a square head.” _Johnson._ [127]