Note 260 — How King Locrinvs the eldest sonne of Brutus liued vitiously, and was slaine in battaile by his wyfe Queene Guendoline, the yeere before Christ, 1064.
Reading edition
Edition 1575 has only seven lines in this stanza: it concludes thus
For though ye colour all, with coate of right: Yet can no fained farde deceiue his sight.
The Authour.
With that this king was vanisht quite and gone, And as a miste dissolued into ayre: And I was left with Morpheus all alone, Who represented straight a Lady faire, Of frendes depriude and left in deepe dispaire: As eke she spake, all wet in cordes fast bounde, Thus tolde she how she was in waters drounde.