Yet twise they were repulsed backe againe, xlviii And twise renforst, backe to their ships to fly, The whiles with bloud they all the shore did staine, And the gray _Ocean_ into purple dy: Ne had they footing found at last perdie, Had not _Androgeus_, false to natiue soyle, And enuious of Vncles soueraintie, Betrayd his contrey vnto forreine spoyle: Nought else, but treason, from the first this land did foyle. So by him _Cæsar_ got the victory, xlix Through great bloudshed, and many a sad assay, In which him selfe was charged heauily Of hardy _Nennius_, whom he yet did slay, But lost his sword, yet to be seene this day. Thenceforth this land was tributarie made T’ambitious _Rome_, and did their rule obay, Till _Arthur_ all that reckoning defrayd[794]; Yet oft the Briton kings against them strongly swayd. Next him _Tenantius_ raigned, then _Kimbeline_, l What time th’eternall Lord in fleshly slime Enwombed was, from wretched _Adams_ line To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime: O ioyous memorie of happy time, That heauenly grace so plenteously displayd; (O too high ditty for my simple rime.) Soone after this the _Romanes_ him warrayd[795]; For that their tribute he refusd to let be payd. Good _Claudius_, that next was Emperour, li An army brought, and with him battell fought, In which the king was by a Treachetour Disguised slaine, ere any thereof thought: Yet ceased not the bloudy fight for ought; For _Aruirage_ his brothers place supplide, Both in his[796] armes, and crowne, and by that draught Did driue the _Romanes_ to the weaker side, That they to peace agreed. So all was pacifide. Was neuer king more highly magnifide, lii Nor dred of _Romanes_, then was _Aruirage_, For which the Emperour to him allide His daughter _Genuiss’_ in marriage: Yet shortly he renounst the vassalage Of _Rome_ againe, who hither hastly sent _Vespasian_, that with great spoile and rage Forwasted all, till _Genuissa_ gent Perswaded him to ceasse, and her Lord to relent. He dyde; and him succeeded _Marius_, liii Who ioyd his dayes in[797] great tranquillity, Then _Coyll_, and after him good _Lucius_, That first receiued Christianitie, The sacred pledge of Christes Euangely; Yet true it is, that long before that day Hither came _Ioseph_ of _Arimathy_, Who brought with him the holy grayle, (they say) And preacht the truth, but since it greatly did decay.