[202] Did cause vs feare. N. [203] His counsayle all and wee assembled were, To bid vs hie, or haste there was no nede, Wee went with them, this newes vs caused feare Sith so he sent, he was not well in dede, &c. ed. 1575. [204] Speed. ib. [205] Doulfull. ib. [206] I. ib. [207] You. ib. [208] Will. ed. 1575. [209] Record to this mine eldest, &c. ed. 1575. [210] Twene this and that the _Stutiæ_ streame doth lie. ib. [211] For which I nought but this remember craue. ib. [212] Loe now. ed. 1575. [213] And gasped thryse and gaue. ib. [214] Then all at once with mourning voyce they cryde. ib. [215] Teares. ib. [216] And so. N. [217] All with one assent. ed. 1575. [218] Sayle. ib. [219] This stanza follows in edit. 1575, As custome wild wee funerals preparde, And all with mourning cloathes, and chere did come, To laye this king on beere we had regarde, In royall sort, as did his corps become, His Herce prepard, we brought him to his tombe, At _Troynouant_ he built, where he did dye, Was he entombde, his royall corps doth lye. [220] Flits. ed. 1575. [221] Or. ed. 1575. [222] This fame declarde that euen a people small. ib. [223] Had. ib. [224] Into three parts. ib. [225] ----did he arriue, In hope this lande of Britayne to atchiue. ed. 1575. In hope to bee the King of Britanie. N. [226] When by report. N. [227] Foe-men. N. [228] And left my men as flockes without a guide. ed. 1575. ----of deadly wounds I dide, My souldiers lost their noble prince and guide. N. [229] To worke with princes slye. ed. 1575. [230] By my fall beware. N. [231] If you repent when life and labours lost. THE AUTHOUR. With that the wounded Prince departed quite, From sight he slinchte, I sawe his shade no more, But Morpheus bade remember this to write, And therewithall presented mee before A wight wet dropping from the water’s shore, In princely weede, but like a warlike man, And thus mee thought his story he began. [232] The author’s continuation, as in first edition, is given in the preceding note. Nicolls uniformly rejected these connecting lines of “the authour” as well as those of the later edition entitled “L’envoy.” [233] Thy. 1575. [234] Both from their realme and right: O filthy fye On such ambition earst as vsed I. ib. [235] Within. ed. 1575.