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Show Theftate ofthe Britains Thefift Booké of 92 161 rightaptlie peeling the fenfe, andalfopzopertlic ans Sihichdid linet thofedales,mofatwit, fundzic haps of fortune, pet ill they renewed their Hands toith nein fupplics of thetr countricmen that Vpon whatoccafionthe graue of king Arthur was fought for, the follie offuch tanteontof Gernianie, and fo with bolder courage aflailed their onimies, and by little and little caufing andreigne agasne as king in Britaine, whetherit bea fictionora yeritie that there was fuchan Arthur fame Gyraldus) came aboue the knee of the fame ian the lenath of theeefirigers breanth, thidjisa Ceeereapams i>ulsuacionsionaeensGroceserie the full of bis head tas ofa toonberfuill largenette, HS that the {pace of bis forehead betivitt bis tivo cies foas afpan broad. There apered'tinbis head the fignes and prints of te ivounds'o? moze; all the tehich were qrotwne inte onc temercept onelie that fajereofit fyould feinie he dten, ebicybeing greater tharthe refidue, apperren bericplaine /Alioin ope, ning the fomecof hie tife quene Gricnetier, that ons that ivere flaine, the greater numberof them difagreement apt! wrirers rouching "Arthur andhis wiues tothe impeachment of the hiftoric, ofhis life and death; bade ‘ SEhe xa. Chapter. pe occafion that macy y) Bing: Dencic the fecond td Cyree foasbiirfed Hithhint, thep found the trefles of hit > caufe bis nephuethe forefatn =A hatre hole and perfecto finelie platted,of colout 29 9 abbat:tofeard for the graue / lke to the burniffedgolo , hich being-touchen, ine ¥? of king Arthur, twas, for that mcdfatlic fell to Dutt. Theabbat,which then was go a uetnourof the boule, twas namedStepars opivere Henricus Ble- tiebe Blois, otherwile de: Sullte, tiephuéto hing cenfis feu Solied Ry, gacalihit) thatcould fing mar Penrie the fecorid (ov ahofe commmansehtent hehas acenfis, nie. biftories Melt} language of the aas of ferchen fo, the grarie of Arthur) tranflaten the bones To.Leland. the antient Wyitains , that.tn the forfaid churchpaca as well of bim as of quene Gueneter , being fo found(nto the great church, and there burienthemit at Glaftenburic,betwirt the fain tivo pillers the bor afatre Doubletwme ‘of marble; lateng the bovicof «die. of Arti twas: to be foun firteene fot deepe the king at the head of the torite, and the bovieof ... buder the ground. Gyraldus Cambrenfis afirmetty, pag38239. foplter of thebittorie of Cambstanotw called daales ‘faith, that the bones of thefaty arthur, aw Ouene, -inclofed, was anoke, but other fuypole that. itinas analvertrie, bicaufethatin the fame placea great her bisiwife were foundint the Ze of Auaton(Hwat numberof that kindof trecs do grow, anpalfo foi {s,the Sleof Alpes) Without the abbeieof Glatters bury,fittcene fiet toithin the ground,¢ that bisgrane Iwas found bp the meanes of a Wardb, thome the hingbeard at Penbroke finging the acts of prince Atthur,and the place of his burial,» &.: iIa2 that itisnot nknotone, that an aloer lieng! onver ground there moffture is, till long continut witty gut rotting, Bp the finding thusof the bovie of Arthur ber Tied (as befoze pe: bauc heard) fuch as bitbertobele- ned that be twas not dead, but conneied atwaie bp the Tohn Leland inhis bookeintituleds *° fairies into fome pleafantplace, there be fhoulo res + Affertio Archuri,bathfor the poorthie men" mori¢ of fo noblea prince,honoredhini "+ with alearned epitaph, ax heert filweth. ‘Axonicas tories qui fudit Marte cruento Who vanguifht Saxon troops fo oft,with bartels blowdie breite; Turmas,& peperit {polijs fibi nomen opimis, ~ And purchefi s0 himfelfe a name with warlike wealehic{poiles, ~Palminco tories Pios gui contudit enle, ' "HWhehash wish flauering pining fivcordishe Pitts fooftdifmaid, Tmnpofujtque iugamScoti ceruicibusingens; vAnd ehe umeldi feruide om mecke ofSconshach laid : i Saunas prune quiqueferoces t with pride, and who ‘ , i ra Daces bel jecbakiebie pei yonTaney dansed Danes with maine and mavriall mis Denique Mordredum & medio qui fullulit ‘ae Be ho of that serene dd the vitalldbveath expel, Monttrum,horrendum, ing ens,dirum,(eudmaque tyrannum, ‘Thasmonier griflieJoibfonie buge,shat divefome ryransfel, Hoc iacet exundhismonumento Arthurivs alto, Hyere linelefe. Arslan Les intosondwishin sis acetic bearfe Militix clarum decus,& vireutis alumnus; Of chiatric the bright renowme, aud verewes teverfling Glorianunc cuius cerrameivounwolacomnem fearfe e Wholesiovie reatnow omer alsre world det compaie fi Astheriique peric(ublimiarc&taTonantis, And ofdt aivie under shales the dofie boailding hie, ~~ maine fora time, and then toreturneagaine , and Bo fo cree plein ocam nacre a wate reignetnasgreat anthooitie aseucr be oid before, called pond st might tell pereeiue themfelues vecefued in cre perilions Satlvane ting fo baine a fable, Wut pet (abere it might other: Sobere bean toile be Donbted, uhether atte fuch Arthur tvas at bis bru allas the Waitt bittores mention, bicaufe tether erie armach, full a Gyldasnog Beda‘in theirtwoks fpcake anie thing other bright of bim) it map aypeere , the circumffances confide fhould be 50 Ped,thatitterl p fuch one there twasof that namte,baty borne that Die\ and valiant in.armes, though not {1 dinuerk fhould coms and efpabs points fo famous as (ome twzlters paint btm out. William Malmefburie a tagtter of ged credit and authoritieamongt the learned, bath thele teoznsin bis firt boke intitaled De regibus Anglorum, Cateng: *Wut be beirig dead[ateaninig Woztinicr] the force af 4 the Mzitatis wared feeble, their occaied hope tuent " backward apace: anv cuen then fuerlic bad thep gon todeffruction , if Ambzofins (tbo alone of the Ko , Go Mans remained pet alive, and was king after Toy figerne) bad not kept bnider and ftaied the loftte bar: barons people , that is to fap the Sarons, by the » hotable afd and aifittanceof the valiant Arthur. » Vosigivur gencis protes geerola Britanns, This is the fae Arthar,of thon the trifling tales of the Wzitains eucn to this dap fantalficallic bo ‘Wete your emperonr great shrice eee rofeas taconalla: Het befcant and repoxt tomnders : bat wazthie toas be Doubtleile,of tehom feined fables fhould not baue f teeamed , but rather that true brffozies night baue Therefore younobleprogenie ofBritaine line Anduperacori ger magno atlurgite v eftro,and vece, Offschcuedsignionamerve as hin Fragrens falay wien yo dsieryen difplaie {hele vertes ¥ bane the more Wwillingtie infers aaa Thad the Came dettucted to mre turned Srglith bymaitter Nicholas Rofearocke,bath fet faxth bis tomzthic pratfes,as be that did for a long featon fattemme anv bold bp bis countrie that was teabie to go to biter ruine and decaie, incouraging the bold barts of the 1zitains bnito the tearne, and & naRie in the fiegeof Sabon till , be fet ppon nine Deundyedof the entmies, and with incredible Dangd ter nofivithfanving (as before is recited ) was inter, fuith him, and hit bones found with bis in one fepnl Tin gba Anglorum , the contrarte mate {eemretrue: bis hicles further aypeareth, And this map be true,if he sevk Wwodsare thefe. Then (faith he) in the prouince of © Balesthichis called woke, the fepulture of Dal, « lotvine pas fountd,tho twas neyhue to Arthur by bis bad three fundzie tyiues , each of them bearing the ¢ ter,not going out of Kind from fo tazthte an bre the queene at bistet towarnsthe nck part qmbe ° that thetreein the thich Arthurs bopie tas found fo Dawid Pow. Melua, tho hadranityed Guencuer, and ted bic tn to thofe marifhes, and there din keepe bir. Wit comps ffill came oner- to thefuccour of their countriemen, dy2e,butpet fo dtufoed , that tive parts of the tome beinig called inand fent for out of cuerie quarter ae fotvards the head tvere apotnten fo receiue the bout them. bones of the man, and the third part totvards the fet conteined the womans bones , apart bp thenw Hereis alfo tobe noted,that therethe Wertith htfelues. tere is to be remembzed,thatHector Boefovie declareth,that Gatwaine o2 Callotwine being tius fuzfteth otherinife of the death of Avthur than Gaine inthe battell fought betiwirt Arthur-and M02 before tn this boke is mentioned, +alfo that Onenes dyed indsent,was buried at Douer,fo that bisbones remained there to be fhetven a long time after: pet uer being tabing p2tfoner bp the Pias, twas conbp that tthich the foyefata William Malmefburie tuat 20 uetedinto Scotland , tibere finallie the died, and tethin the thiraboke of his bolemne intitulen Deretwasthere buriedin Angus, asin the Scotith cho: ofking Arthur,hir beautie ae difhoneft life, greac i found reco2bed by anold twriter, that Arthur befiegedonatimethe maritbes neerée to lattenbarie, for oifpleafure that be bare to a certeine low callen . then fogineplace, fpread themfelues oucr the abole red fogither tith Arthurs, fo hat tt is thought the lined not long after bis occeate, Fle. Foz although there were meanie battels,in the fhich fonctine the Sarons and fornctinte the Wai. Arthur hap thue wines(as Gyraldus Cambrenfis tains got the better,pet the greater nuinber of Sar- 10 Affirimeth) of fbtch the latter (faith he) was burien difcouered as beleeued thar hefhould returne a berie tall man (the tbtch the abbat fhetved tothe the hiftorie of England. tet did put themrall to Might: Drithe contraric part, the Cniglith Sarons although thev tyzre tolfcd with (iuering the ALatine, berfe for berfe, oeCoie Cambrenfis (fhoaltolfuedinthofe Daies,anbd fpake with the abbat of the place,by thom the bonesofthis Arthur tere then found) aftirmeth, that by report of the fame abbat, be learned,that the Shinbone of the faid Arthur being fet bp by the leg of waderthe Britifh kings. nameef Gueneuer, as fir ohn Pricepoth anonch that he had. folw bicaufe of contrarietic in terifers touching the great acts atchtued bp this Arthur, any dle. ie reigned in that part of Writaine tthich bute allo forthat fome difference there isamongt thet, aboutthe time in tehich he fhould reigne,mante haue "this dap is called Wlalivichia , aknight for bishigh Doubted of the tole hifforie thich of himis titten « Potvetie moft highlie renoionred,but erpellcd outot e biskingdome bp the brother and neyhue of Wengift, 30 (as before pe haue heard.) (But others there be of a of home in the firft boke fue hae made mention, conftant beleefe, tbo holo tt for a grounved truth, &fit requiting bis banitment with great detris that {uch a prinice there twas 5 and ainong all other & psiapow, « Mentand lofle to thofe bis entmies, therein he twas late twziter, ttho falling into neceffarte mention of pag.238,239, ‘. partaker bp tuft vefertof bis ticles twagtbhie pzaife, prince Arthur,trametha fpeech apologeticall th bis amd their bebalfe that were princes of the IBzitith fo) that he flaied (for a great ttanie peres) the des « firudion of bis countrie,obich twas not running blond, difcharging a tot but pet a fharve inucaiue « deadlong into dtter ruine and decate. Mut Arthurs agatn{f William Paruus, Polydor Virgil, and thetr « Staucno there apereth: pet the others tame (as complices , thom be accufet of eng tongs , err ions detvacion,malicious ander, repochfell and « Thane fain) twas foundin the dates of William the « Conquers, king of England, tponthefea five, and 4o benemous language,toilfull ignezance, dogged ery ,, tteined tn length fouretdene fot,ahere he tas (as uie,andcankerd minds; fo2 that thep (peatse bnres « fome fay) wounded bp his eninries 5 aud catt bp bp uerettlie and contrarie to the knotune truth concer? « ipwracke.s5ut otherwaite,that he was Maine at a ning thofe thzifertoble princes. Which defenfitiue & publike featto2 banket by bie otone countriemert. be would not bane depoled,but that be takes the mov « 2)us fatty William Malmefburie.numentsoftheft memoztes for bndoubten berities, But here pou mutt confiver,that the fafo MalThe Writith biffortes and alfo the Scotith cyzomefburie departed this life about the beginning of nicles do agree,that he lined in the dates of the env thercigneof king Wentie the feeond,certeine peers perour Juftinian, about the fifteenth pere of thofe ethebones of Arthur twucre found (as pe hatic reigne be died, thich was tn the verre of our L020 b.)But omitting this potnt as needles to be cow 5° 542,88 Diverte do affirme. Hotwbeit fome trite - 542 frouertied,¢ letting all titionant opittions of twxtters farther from all Ifkelifod , that be twas about Palle,as amatter of no facy mroment that twe fhoula the tinte of the empero: Z eno,tho began bis reigne N@dto ficke therein as ina gletwpot; we twill pro aoutthe perc of our 1o2d.474: Be twriter of the Ae«hiforec. $2) in the refioue of fudycolledions ‘as Wwe finn ne, bake intitules urea hiforre aftirmeth , that inthe te land. Tellarilic pertinent tothe continuation of this hitte. tenth pereof Cerdicusking of WWeffarons , Ar Hesand nol we twill fap fomewbat of quene Guenthur the twarriour rofe againi the Weitains. Alto _ Cuenouer, the wife of the forefad King Are Diouionenfs tuziteth, that Cerdicusfighting often. fimes with Arthur, if he tocre onetcome tn one moe te ludge that fhe toke bir naineof fr ercetneth, be arofe in an other moneth moze fierce and utic , bicaufe Guinne 02 Guenne in the 60 ftrong te giue battell than before. Atlength Arthur {wearied tuith irkefomnes, after the tivelfth pere of tong fignifieth fatre, {0 tat The was named fhe comming of Cerdicus, gaue onto him bponbis ete og rather Guenlheaitjeuen(as pou would 2p)the fawre 02 beautifull tenor 02 Helen. Sbe Pd pit the hole of one ado? carle of wall before Arthur maticd bir :and as it appatel be taiters.,the was euill reported of, as no in of incontinencte¢ breach of fatth to bir hufbann, Matiet as fo the moze patt wonten of excellent beautie harolic eftape the benemens blatt of evtilt oe > an the tharpe affanlts ofthe follotwers of gn Pe Britith bittorie antirmetty, that tye Ie Shelie abute bir fclfe by pnlatofull compante Porred, but that alto in Arthurs abfence the {0 take bim to hutband. Stis liketile homage done and fealtie received , the thires of Southampton and Somerlet, the thic) countries Cerdicius named Wefifaron. This Cerdicius 02 welttarons Cerdicus came into Writaine about the pere of our Lord 495.3 the 24 pere after his comming hither, fhat isto fap , about the peere of pour ord 519, be began bis reigne ouer the Wellfarons, and govers ned them as bing bp the pace of 15 peetes , as ber fore pe hate heard. Yutt to follow the courfe of our choonicles accordinglic as toe Hane begun, toe mut allot of their accounts herein as in otger places, and fo proceed, ss The |