the land; two riuers bound the rest.
So huge a scope at first him seemed best,
6 To be the compasse of his kingdomes seat:
So huge a mind could not in lesser rest,
8 Ne in small meares containe his glory great,
That _Albion_ had conquered first by warlike feat.

2 Hygate > Hygate gate _1596_

1 "The Trojan Brutus did first that city found,

Brutus > (See 210.9:6 ff.)

2 And Highgate made the mere thereof by west,

mere > boundary

3 And Overt Gate by north: that is the bound

Overt > Open (unlike Highgate, this gate is not identifiable today)
bound > boundary

4 Toward the land; two rivers bound the rest.

two rivers > (One appears to be the Thames; the other is not clearly
identifiable)

5 So huge a scope at first him seemed best,
6 To be the compass of his kingdom's seat:

compass > area, extent

7 So huge a mind could not in lesser rest,

lesser > [a lesser compass]

8 Nor in small meres contain his glory great,
9 That Albion had conquered first by warlike feat."

Albion > (England: for a note on the etymology, see 210.6:7)

309.47

Ah fairest Lady knight, (said _Paridell_)
2 Pardon I pray my heedlesse ouersight,
Who had forgot, that whilome I heard tell
4 From aged _Mnemon_; for my wits bene light.
Indeed he said (if I remember right,)
6 That of the antique _Troian_ stocke, there grew
Another plant, that raught to wondrous hight,
8 And far abroad his mighty branches threw,
Into the vtmost Angle of the world he knew.

1 "Ah, fairest lady knight," said Paridell,
2 "Pardon I pray my heedless oversight,
3 Who had forgotten, that whilom I heard tell

Who > [Such that I; in that I]
that > [that that]
whilom > formerly

4 From aged Mnemon; for my wits been light.

Mnemon > "Memory" (Greek)
been > [are, were]

5 Indeed, he said (if I remember right)
6 That of the antique Trojan stock there grew

antique > ancient

7 Another plant, that raught to wondrous height,

raught > reached, attained

8 And far abroad his mighty branches threw,
9 Into the utmost angle of the world he knew.

angle > corner

309.48

For that same _Brute_, whom much he did aduaunce
2 In all his speach, was _Syluius_ his sonne,
Whom hauing slaine, through luckles arrowes glaunce
4 He fled for feare of that he had misdonne,
Or else for shame, so fowle reproch to shonne,
6 And with him l