By strokes to find a passage to his life, But now I found in vaine was all my strife. N. [669] From scales. ed. 1575. [670] Seazed. N. [671] Vs. N. [672] This fable of the monster is repeated with little if any variation by most writers. “As he (Morindus) wente vppon a tyme by the see side, he mette a grete beste that was blak and horrible, and hidous: and wente that hit had bene a whale of the see: And bente an arweblaste and wolde haue slayn that beste with a quarell, but he myght nought smyte hit. And when he hade shote alle his quarell, the beste anone come to hym in grete haste, and him deuourede alyue, and so he deide.” _M. S. Brute._ [673] ---- an haplesse falle, Or God’s reuenge, example take by mee, And let my death sufficient warning bee. ed. 1575. THE AUTHOURE. I could not thus departe to take my reste, For Morpheus bad me byde and heare the last. (Quoth he) behinde as yet, is one the beste: “Do stay a whyle, giue eare till he be past, “And therewithall approtched one full fast, The worthiest wight I euer erste did see”: These wordes he spake, or like it seemed mee. [674] Not in the first edition. [675] Except the rest of Britaine princes should. N. [676] The chronicles say six or seuen years, and deposed for his tyranny. [677] To yex, to have the hiccough. _Johnson._ [678] Not in the first edition. [679] An unwilling dolt. [680] A drunken sot whose faltering feete do slip, Must pardon craue, his tongue in talke will trip. N. [681] Erynnys, _i. e._ the goddesses that were to search into those men who had committed heinous offences: their names are Megæra, Tisiphone, and Alecto. [682] Chaung’d in me. N. [683] Sow, a great lump of melted iron or lead. _Bailey._ [684] Not in the first edition. [685] Also prosper. N. [686] Yet doth stand. N. [687] Their. N. [688] With those that will. N. [689] Doth spoile the corps. N. [690] Weaker force to. N. [691] The like examples. N. [692] Neuerthelesse. N. [693] This censure was probably from the circumstance of the deeds and name of Nennius being omitted in the Polychronicon, and by Fabian, Lanquet, Rastell, and Stowe. [694] As on such tyrants who as bloodie foes, Vnto their countrey wrought such deadly woes. N. [695] As for myselfe I doe not. N. [696] That to the dead these moderne writers doe. N. [697] Any one of yore. N. [698] Both tall forraine force in fight. N. [699] Of their foes may haue. N. [700] Place height Ely of his name. N. Some, as Camden observes, derive the name of Ely “from Helig, a British word signifying willows or sallows, which it bears in abundance; and indeed they are the only thriving trees here.” _Camden’s Britannia._ [701] This stanza omitted by Niccols. [702] Lanquet, Stowe, Grafton, Flores Histor. _Margin_ of ed. 1575. [703] ----as stories tell, And fame did beare his name both wide and far. N.