e of the _Fayes_,
8 As was _Aegerie_, that _Numa_ tought;
Those yet of her be _Mertian_ lawes both nam'd and thought.
1 After him reigned Guithelin his heir,
2 The justest man and truest in his days,
3 Who had to wife Dame Martia the fair,
had to > took as
4 A woman worthy of immortal praise,
5 Which for this realm found many goodly lays,
found > founded, established
lay > {Law, esp. a religious law}
6 And wholesome statutes to her husband brought;
7 Her many deemed to have been of the fays,
many > [many people]
fays > fairies
8 As was Aegeria, who Numa taught;
Aegeria > (One of the Camenae (the prophetic nymphs of early Roman
mythology, identified with the Greek Muses), from whom Numa
received instruction)
9 Those yet of her be Martian laws both named and thought.
of > after
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Her +sonne+ +_Sisillus_+ after her did rayne,
2 And then _Kimarus_, and then _Danius_;
Next whom _Morindus_ did the crowne sustaine,
4 Who, had he not with wrath outrageous,
And cruell rancour dim'd his valorous
6 And mightie deeds, should matched haue the best:
As well in that same field victorious
8 Against the forreine _Morands_ he exprest;
Yet liues his memorie, though carcas sleepe in rest.
1 sonne > sonnes _1596, 1609_
1 _Sisillus_ > _Sifillus 1590 etc._
1 Her son Sisilius after her did reign,
2 And then Kimarus, and then Danius;
3 Next whom Morvidus did the crown sustain,
Next > Immediately after
4 Who (had he not with wrath outrageous,
outrageous > violent; intemperate
5 And cruel rancour dimmed his valorous
6 And mighty deeds) should matched have the best:
7 As well in that same field victorious
well > (Adv., applicable to "exprest" in next line)
field > battlefield; battle (in Northumberland, to repel the
invading Morini)
8 Against the foreign Morini he expressed;
Morini > (A tribe in Belgic Gaul, living near present-day Boulogne)
expressed > revealed [his cruelty]
9 Yet lives his memory, though carcase sleep in rest.
Yet > Still, even today
carcase > [his carcase]
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Fiue +sonnes+ he left begotten of one wife,
2 All which successiuely by turnes did raine;
First _Gorboman_ a man of vertuous life;
4 Next _Archigald_, who for his proud disdaine,
Deposed was from Princedome soueraine,
6 And pitteous _Elidure_ put in his sted;
Who shortly it to him r
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