r name for euer be defast,
And quite from +of the earth+ their memory be rast?

9 of the earth > th'earth _1590 etc.: FE_

1 The damsel was full deep empassioned,

full deep empassioned > very deeply moved

2 Both for his grief, and for her people's sake,
3 Whose future woes so plain he fashioned,
4 And, sighing sore, at length him thus bespoke:

sore > grievously
bespoke > addressed

5 "Ah, but will heaven's fury never slake,

slake > abate

6 Nor vengeance huge relent itself at last?
7 Will not long misery late mercy make,
8 But shall their name for ever be defaced,

their > [the Britons']
defaced > destroyed; cast in the shade

9 And quite from of the earth their memory be rased?"

from of > from; from off
rased > erased, obliterated

303.44

Nay but the terme (said he) is limited,
2 That in this thraldome _Britons_ shall abide,
And the iust reuolution measured,
4 That they as Straungers shalbe notifide.
For twise foure hundredth +yeares+ +shalbe supplide+,
6 Ere they to former rule restor'd +shalbee,+
And their importune fates all satisfide:
8 Yet during this their most obscuritee,
Their beames shall oft breake forth, that men them faire may see.

5 yeares > _omitted from 1596 and 1609_
5 shalbe supplide > shall be full supplide _1609_
6 shalbee, > shalbee. _1596_

1 "Nay but the term," said he, "is limited,
2 That in this thraldom Britons shall abide,

thraldom > slavery
abide > remain; wait, await the outcome

3 And the just revolution measured,

just > exact; full, complete
measured > [is measured]

4 That they as strangers shall be notified.

strangers > foreigners, outsiders [in their own country]
notified > denoted, called

5 For twice four hundred years shall be supplied

twice four hundred years > (Virtually the exact interval between the
death of Cadwallader in about 690 and the enthronement of Henry
VII in 1485)

6 Ere they to former rule restored shall be,
7 And their importune fates all satisfied:

importune > grievous, burdensome

8 Yet during this their most obscurity,

most > greatest

9 Their beams shall oft break forth, that men them fair may see.

that > [so that]

303.45

For _Rhodoricke_, whose surname shalbe Great,
2 Shall of him selfe a braue ensample shew,
That Saxon kings his friendship shall intreat;
4 And _Howell Dha_ shall goodly well indew