Note 307 — How Qveene Elstride the Concubine and second wife of king Locrinus was miserably drowned by Queene Guendoline, The yeare before Christ, 1064.

With that she flitted in the ayre abrode, As twere a miste or smooke dissolued quite, And or I long on this had made abode, A virgine smale, appearde before my sight, For colde and wet eke scarsly moue she might. As from the waters drownd didering came, Thus wise hir tale in order did she frame. ed. 1575.