Note 543 — How King Porrex[533] which slewe his brother was slayne by his owne mother and hir maydens, about the yeare before Christ, 491.
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Next after Porrex came an other such, Had all his body quite in peeces rent: A desperate man, his life bewayling much: Which for he seemed sorely to lament, I was the rather him to heare content: That I might also note his story here, From like attempts of vices you to feare.
[Here follows the tragedy of Kimarus, as at p. 208.]