After him raigned _Guitheline_ his hayre, xlii The iustest man and trewest in his dayes, Who had to wife Dame _Mertia_ the fayre, A woman worthy of immortall prayse, Which for this Realme found many goodly layes, And wholesome Statutes to her husband brought; Her many deemd to haue beene of the _Fayes_, As was _Aegerie_, that _Numa_ tought; Those yet of her be _Mertian_ lawes both nam’d and thought. Her sonne[791] _Sisillus_[792] after her did rayne, xliii And then _Kimarus_, and then _Danius_; Next whom _Morindus_ did the crowne sustaine, Who, had he not with wrath outrageous, And cruell rancour dim’d his valorous And mightie deeds, should matched haue the best: As well in that same field victorious Against the forreine _Morands_ he exprest; Yet liues his memorie, though carcas sleepe in rest. Fiue sonnes[793] he left begotten of one wife, xliv All which successiuely by turnes did raine; First _Gorboman_ a man of vertuous life; Next _Archigald_, who for his proud disdaine, Deposed was from Princedome soueraine, And pitteous _Elidure_ put in his sted; Who shortly it to him restord againe, Till by his death he it recouered; But _Peridure_ and _Vigent_ him disthronized. In wretched prison long he did remaine, xlv Till they outraigned had their vtmost date, And then therein reseized was againe, And ruled long with honorable state, Till he surrendred Realme and life to fate. Then all the sonnes of these fiue brethren raynd By dew successe, and all their Nephewes late, Euen thrise eleuen descents the crowne retaynd, Till aged _Hely_ by dew heritage it gaynd. He had two sonnes, whose eldest called _Lud_ xlvi Left of his life most famous memory, And endlesse moniments of his great good: The ruin’d wals he did reædifye Of _Troynouant_, gainst force of enimy, And built that gate, which of his name is hight, By which he lyes entombed solemnly. He left two sonnes, too young to rule aright, _Androgeus_ and _Tenantius_, pictures of his might. Whilst they were young, _Cassibalane_ their Eme xlvii Was by the people chosen in their sted, Who on him tooke the royall Diademe, And goodly well long time it gouerned, Till the prowd _Romanes_ him disquieted, And warlike _Cæsar_, tempted with the name Of this sweet Island, neuer conquered, And enuying the Britons blazed fame, (O hideous hunger of dominion) hither came.