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Show . . Pf. the ah . ~ ~ar_ning . -~ · ~~ ~ w ofp ~ Leati:i'irig.fupple~ I ·mthtatl,aitdtt ~f tope rc;,gattonA . - . =Bu fOtMt;~E~MBH- s~ol\!1: Bl, where. , of tnt1"e fre (0\ne few~ 'ieworthy, tiu the greater part Deneatl1 Mediocritie, leatii~ 'tHe care?£ ,forreyneftories to. forrc:yne Stat~s .• ·bteaufe I w.lll · not ~ee €uriifos .,, •lien~ .ll~fu~ltt•. i I can no~ fade ·to reprefent to your Matefh~ , ·the vn.wor~hu~etfe of tne Hi Rorie of £nglAnlie 1n tlie Matne ~onttnu-. ance thereof' ana the ..parti3litie' ana obli.quitie ' .ofrhatof 811thntJ, in tficrlate{\"and largeR Author fhatl haue (eene; {up~ng tfiat it w.ou~d ,be honourforyourMaieHie, anctaw rRe very memo .. raole ,if this I land of great Bri~nie, as·it i~ ROW ioy-. '·ned i~ . ~ionarchie for the ages to .. come : So were ioyned in one Hiftorie for"'th~ times patTed., after I .:tile m~ner of the faeredHiftorie.~ whJc~ dra.weth .. downe the ftorie of the Tcnne Tribes , ana of the Two Trib~s, as Twinnes·roget11er •. And if it lhall feeme that the greatne[e of.this worke ma·y make Jt lelfe ex~dly perfonned , thc!fe f& an exccllc~~tt Pe· ric:illeofa much fmallercoinpaffeoftime, as.tothe :Rorie of Englantlthat is to fay, fron1 the V niting of ~the Rofcas,totheVnitingofthe Kingdotncs: a·Por . . tio oftime-wlterifl, to my·vndcr.fianding,there tlath ·.lbin;therareftvaf cries,_tnat in likenumber·of fi1ccef. I .,fto~ ofany heteditarx·Monarchie hath bin known: 'lf6T ir oeginn.~h ,Willi tbe ' mixt Adeption of a ~ rtJ ~, by.Arm~andTi'tle: A~ entry by Bat· ., .an.Efiablifument ~y Mari~.gc: and ther~fore · ·ti.mei _ . lJ"he ftcondhoo'<!. 1 3 dmesanfwerab[e,likewatersafiera tempelt, fuiiof , , working and fivelling, though withou-t extrcami· tie of Storme; but wel.l palfed through by the wif~dome of the PyiDte, be1ng one ofth.e rnofi fufficient kinges of all the number. Then follo\verh the Raigneofa King, whofe actions ho\vfocuer condueled had much intermixture with the affaires of ~•rope: b~Jancing and inclyR ing then~ variably, 1n whole ume alfo beganne thar great alteration in the State EcclefiafiicalJ, an action which ftldome co~meth ~.ppon the Stage : Thea. the Raigne of . a.Mu1or ,· then an offer ofaVl vfurpation, (thouoh it was but asFebri& 'Eph~mtrll). Then the Raigne 0 of a: Q.geene Matched \Vtth a Jforreyner : Then of a · . ~eene that liued folitary ,and vnn1arried; and yet her gouernment fo m ~fc.uline, as i.t had greater impreflion, and operauon vppon the States abroad . . ~hen i~ any \vaies receiued from thence; And novJ lafi,this moll: happie,aBd glorious euenr that this Iland of BrittAny deuided from all the w~r1d tbould bee VBited in itfelfc: ~ And tha~.?racle of'Rell gi· uen to c.)ltneas, AI'Jttquamenqtltrtte .M4trem,thouid nowe bee performed and fulfilled vpon theN ati- . ons of E»tland and SctJtlttnd,being now revnited in the. aunctent !"foth~~ .name ·of B:itt~ny, as a full pe~1ode of aU tnfiabthtte & perrgnnauons: So that as it commeth to paffe in MafSiue bodies tha·t ~ they haue certaine ~repidatioos and wauerings before .they fixe anq fettle : So it feemetb , that ·. .. n a , by t ' '. |