Chapter 16

1.Mvsing on these thinges I cal’d to my minde,In historyes what I ofTroiaread,And what ofBrutusI in bookes did findeLikewise I cast, and counted in my head.I found thatAlbanactstoode mee in stead.For why,Siciliansright this noble manCallesLestrygons, as they were named than.2.Lestrygowas, perdy,Neptunus’sonne,To whom his father gaue that noble Ile:And of his name the people there did wonne.The writers false abus’d vs then long while,Which set vs downe ofLeogecean Ile,So neereItaliastrandes was placed than,To which LordBrutuscame, that noble man.3.OfLestrygonthat Ilande first tooke name,AsAlbanacthath well recited heere.But of kingHumbersee what nowe became,Which after him next haplesse did appeareWith Armoure wet, as drencht hee lately were:So downe his greaues the water tricklinges ran,While he this wise his woefull tale began.

1.Mvsing on these thinges I cal’d to my minde,In historyes what I ofTroiaread,And what ofBrutusI in bookes did findeLikewise I cast, and counted in my head.I found thatAlbanactstoode mee in stead.For why,Siciliansright this noble manCallesLestrygons, as they were named than.2.Lestrygowas, perdy,Neptunus’sonne,To whom his father gaue that noble Ile:And of his name the people there did wonne.The writers false abus’d vs then long while,Which set vs downe ofLeogecean Ile,So neereItaliastrandes was placed than,To which LordBrutuscame, that noble man.3.OfLestrygonthat Ilande first tooke name,AsAlbanacthath well recited heere.But of kingHumbersee what nowe became,Which after him next haplesse did appeareWith Armoure wet, as drencht hee lately were:So downe his greaues the water tricklinges ran,While he this wise his woefull tale began.

1.

Mvsing on these thinges I cal’d to my minde,In historyes what I ofTroiaread,And what ofBrutusI in bookes did findeLikewise I cast, and counted in my head.I found thatAlbanactstoode mee in stead.For why,Siciliansright this noble manCallesLestrygons, as they were named than.

Mvsing on these thinges I cal’d to my minde,

In historyes what I ofTroiaread,

And what ofBrutusI in bookes did finde

Likewise I cast, and counted in my head.

I found thatAlbanactstoode mee in stead.

For why,Siciliansright this noble man

CallesLestrygons, as they were named than.

2.

Lestrygowas, perdy,Neptunus’sonne,To whom his father gaue that noble Ile:And of his name the people there did wonne.The writers false abus’d vs then long while,Which set vs downe ofLeogecean Ile,So neereItaliastrandes was placed than,To which LordBrutuscame, that noble man.

Lestrygowas, perdy,Neptunus’sonne,

To whom his father gaue that noble Ile:

And of his name the people there did wonne.

The writers false abus’d vs then long while,

Which set vs downe ofLeogecean Ile,

So neereItaliastrandes was placed than,

To which LordBrutuscame, that noble man.

3.

OfLestrygonthat Ilande first tooke name,AsAlbanacthath well recited heere.But of kingHumbersee what nowe became,Which after him next haplesse did appeareWith Armoure wet, as drencht hee lately were:So downe his greaues the water tricklinges ran,While he this wise his woefull tale began.

OfLestrygonthat Ilande first tooke name,

AsAlbanacthath well recited heere.

But of kingHumbersee what nowe became,

Which after him next haplesse did appeare

With Armoure wet, as drencht hee lately were:

So downe his greaues the water tricklinges ran,

While he this wise his woefull tale began.


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