With that she flitted in the ayre abrode, As twere a miste or smooke dissolued quite, And or I long on this had made abode, A virgine smale, appearde before my sight, For colde and wet eke scarsly moue she might. As from the waters drownd didering came, Thus wise hir tale in order did she frame. ed. 1575. [308] Many of the incidents of the preceding lives are united to form the plot of “the lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, the eldest son of King Brutus, discoursinge the warres of the Britaines,” entered in the Stationers Books 1594. The first act shows Brutus sick, making the division of the kingdom among his sons Albanact, Humber, and Locrine. The succeeding acts exhibit their wars on each other, and in the last is that created by Guendoline against Locrine, concluding with his death and those of his concubine and daughter the Lady Sabrine. See Malone’s Supplement, Vol II. p. 189. There is also “an old ballad of a duke of Cornwall’s daughter,” (Guendoline) inserted in Evans’s Ballads, 1784, Vol. I. The respective writers appear to have consulted the Mirror for Magistrates. In the persons represented in the play the author has chosen to deviate from all chronicle history by making “Madan, _daughter_ of Locrine and Guendolen.” [309] Tis wisedome rather then to winne to saue. ed. 1575. [310] Elstride or Astrilde, is described by Robert of Gloucester as the stern Guendoline’s “bed suster, hire lordis concubine.” [311] Flye, flye, thy gelous stepdame seekes thy life. ed. 1575. [312] Eke. N. [313] Farewell in woe you cannot scape hir knife. ed. 1575. [314] Thryse. ib. [315] Little, ed. 1575. [316] Sclender. ib. [317] An omitted stanza from ed. 1575. Thus throughe the hoste he bare me to my bane, And shewde the Souldiours what a spoyle he had: “Loke here (quoth he) the litle Princes tane.” And laught, and ran as brutish butcher mad; But my lamenting made the souldiours sad, Yet nought preuailde, the caytife as his pray Without all pitie bare me still away. [318] Till. ed. 1575. [319] Some saide lo Elstride shee resembleth right. ib. [320] Some. ib. [321] Some said the thiefe. ib. [322] And. ib. [323] Nought. ib. [324] “O Queene (quoth I) God knowes me innocent, To worke my father’s death I neuer ment.” ed. 1575. [325] Take. ib. [326] This Sabrine hand and foote; at once let see Her here receyue. ed. 1575. [327] Which. ib. [328] Guendoline “made a proclamation throughout all the whole realme of Briteyn that the same water should be euermore called Habren, after the maydens name, for so euen at this day is Seuerne called in the Welsh tongue. And this did she as one desirous to make thereby the name of the yong mayden immortall, because she was her housband’s daughter.” _Grafton._ [329] By this. ed. 1575. [330] Hence. ib. [331] Here may you see, the children seldome thee. ib. [332] Farewell, and tell when Fortune most doth smile. ib.