VERSES.

"Whosoever thou art: if thou wishest to know the English kings or

laws, thou wilt read by perusing these. I will record the greater or

nobler kings; when they reigned, and where the people buried them.

Four thousand and a score years was Adam made before Brutus."

Brutus in the xv^{th} year of his age departing from Italy, arriving

at the island Leogecia in his ship, consulted there Diana, saying:

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