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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 1

Note 127 — How King Albanact the Yongest Son of Brutus,[113] and First King of Albany (now called Scotland) was slayne by king Humber, the yeere before Christ, 1085.

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But when as Brutus fiftene yeares was olde, (For so they calde my father by his name) With Siluius then a hunting goe he would, And thinking for to strike in chace the game, His father that by chaunce beyonde it came, Receiude the glaunce and through his tender syde, With deadly dint, the shaft did swiftly slyde. ed. 1575.

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