Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

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ANCIENT SONGS
In the four hundred ninetieth yeere,
Ore Brittaine I did rayne, io
After my favior Chrift his byrth
What time I did maintaine
The fellowfliipp of the table round,
Soe famous in thofe dayes
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Whereatt a hundred noble knights,
And thirty fate alwayes :
Who for their deeds and martiall feates,
As bookes done yett record,
Amongft all other nations
Wer feared through the world. 20
And in the caftle off Tyntagill
King Uther mee begate
Of Agyana a bewtyous ladye,
And come of his eftate.
And when I was fifteen yeeres old, 25
Then was I crowned kinge :
All Brittaine that was att an uprore,
I did to quiett bringe.
And drove the Saxons from the realme,
Who had opprelt this land
Ver. 9. He began kit reign A.D. 515, according to the Chronicles.
Ver. 23. She is named Igerna in the aid Chronicles.
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