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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 1

Note 934 — How Gviderivs King of Britayne and the elder sonne of Cimbaline was slayne in battayle by a Romayne, The yeare of Christ, 44.

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He marcht with vs as he a friend had been, And when we came to fight he shew’d a face Of comfort and bold courage ’gainst his men: And when they fled, and we pursu’d the chace, Pursue (quoth he) the Romans flie apace, In British tongue he cride, they flie, they flie, Our hostages had taught him so to crie. N.

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