"The island, not yet _Britain_ but _Albion_, was in a manner desert, and inhospitable; kept only by a remnant of _Giants_; whose excessive Force and Tyrannie had consumed the rest. Them Brutus destroies, and to his people divides the Land, which with som reference to his own name, he henceforth calls Britain." (Milton's _History of England_, book i.)--ED.] [Footnote V: Julius Caesar landed for the first time in Britain, 55 B.C.--ED.] [Footnote W: Compare _The Solitary Reaper_, II. 18-20 (vol. ii. p. 398):-- Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago. ED. ] [Footnote X: See note A on the previous page.--ED.] [Footnote Y: Corineus, according to the old legend, was the chief of a Trojan race who came with Brutus into Aquitania, and afterwards into Britain. Cornwall fell to Corineus by lot, in the portioning out of the new territory, "the rather by him liked," says Milton, "for that the hugest Giants in Rocks and Caves were said to lurk still there; which kind of Monsters to deal with was his old exercise." (Milton's _History of England_, book i.)--ED.] [Footnote Z: Compare _To a Skylark_ (1825)-- Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home. ED. ] [Footnote AA: _Locrine_, Brutus' son, was engaged to marry Corineus' daughter, _Guendolen_. But, after defeating _Humber_, King of the Huns, and finding Estrildis, daughter of a German king, amongst the spoil, he took her captive. He married Guendolen, but loved Estrildis, and on the death of Corineus, he divorced Guendolen, and married Estrildis. The rest may be told in Milton's words: "Guendolen all in rage departs into Cornwal;... And gathering an army of her Father's Friends and Subjects, gives Battail to her Husband by the River _Sture_; wherein _Locrine_, shot with an arrow, ends his life. But not so ends the fury of _Guendolen_; for _Estrildis_, and her daughter _Sabra_, she throws into a River: and to leave a Monument of Revenge, proclaims that the Stream be henceforth called after the Damsel's name; which by length of time is changed now to _Sabrina_ or _Severn_." (_History of England_, book i.)--ED.] [Footnote AB: See note [AC] on the previous page.--ED.]