Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
’Tis best, O Brutus, if thou like her, take
His daughter Innogen vnto thy wyfe:
And let the king a dowry large hir make:
Gold, syluer, shippes, and corne for our reliefe:
With other thinges whereof this lande is rife:
That wee so fraught may seeke some desert shore
Where wee and ours may raigne for euermore. ed. 1575.
[160]
The hateful gods haue yelded mee. ib.
[161]
For feare I leese both life and goodes and landes. ib.
[162]
My father then was married by and by. ib.
[163]
The Troians proud of spoiles and victorie. N.
[164] Leogrece. ed. 1575.
[165]
Where Dian dwelt of whom the Troian crew. N.
[166] In. ib.
[167]
Wherin Diana to such credit grewe:
That sacrifice the Troianes counsayle gaue,
My father make, an aunswere for to haue. ed. 1575.
[168] Efilde with. ib.
[169]
In better sorte then I repeate it here. ib.
[170] Surelie. N.
[171] To reste and sleep. ed. 1575.
[172] Once. ib.
[173] Aunswere that it. ib.
[174] Affrica. ib.
[175]
From thence they sayled vnto _Saliues_ lake:
Twene _Azaræ_ hilles, and _Ruscitadam_
They paste, from thence to _Maluæ_ floud they gate
To _Hercules_ his pillers sight they came:
And then to Tuscan seas whereas by fame,
Not far from shore, like minded mates they finde,
Foure banisht races of the Troian kinde. ib.
[176] Calde. ib.
[177] For. ib.
[178]
My father did so frendely vse this man,
He was content and all his men besyde:
To trie aduentures by my fathers guyde. ib.
[179] This Stanza not in the first edit.
[180] Then. ib.
[181] And. ib.
[182] And vitayles for their men and them atchiue. ib.
[183] By fortune on an halberde then he light. ed. 1575.
[184] My father. ib.
[185] My father’s. ib.
[186]
----voide of breath,
Which pincht my fathers hart as pangs of death. ib.
[187] Cleeues. N.
[188] None. ed. 1575.
[189] But. ib.
[190]
My father had no cause but like it well
And gaue his souldiers places in to dwell. ib.
[191] My father caused Britayne called bee. ib.
[192] My father. ib.
[193] Sith. ib.
[194] Whereby his stock. ed. 1575.
[195] “Brute the fyrst King of Brytons, bylded & edefyed this cyte
of London, the fyrst cyte of Brytayn, in remembraunce of the cyte of
Troye, that was destroyed, and called it Troyeneweth and Trinouantum,
that is newe Troye.” _Trevisa’s Polychronicon._ B. 1. C. xlvii.
[196] Then eke my mother all his, &c. ed. 1575.
[197] Of children erste. ib.
[198] Three sonnes because of Innogen he gate. ib.
[199] Then. ib.
[200]
Those mightie people borne of Giants brood,
That did possesse this Ocean-bounded land,
They did subdue, who oft in battell stood
Gainst them in field, vntill by force of hand
They were made subiect vnto _Brutes_ command.
Such boldnes then did in the Briton dwell,
That they in deedes of valour did excell. N.
[201] Surely. N.
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