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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Brytayns make them|ſelues ſtrong.The Brytaynes who had gone ſo farre in the matter that they could not wel withdraw them|ſelues, now being certified of al their enimies do|ings, thought beſt to make themſelues ſo ſtrong as was poſſible. And to the ende that they might proceede in ſome orderly meane, all the greateſt Lordes & eſtates aſſembled togither at Shrewſ|burie,The Brytaines aſſemble them+ſelues at Shreweſburie. in thoſe dayes called Coriminum, where they concluded vppon a league to ayde one ano|ther with all their might and maine agaynſt the Romaines and Aruiragus, who went aboute to bring them wholy vnder ſeruile ſubiection and thraldome of the ſame Romaines.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 They confe|derate them|ſelues togitherThey beeing thus agreed to make warres in this quarell, and for the ſame purpoſe to ioyne theyr whole puyſſance togither, there roſe a doubt whome they myght chooſe for theyr generall Captaine, for that it was feared leaſt there might growe ſome ſecrete enuie amongeſt the Nobles being of equal power, if one ſhould be in this caſe preferred before an other.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 For the auoyding of which miſchiefe, by the graue admonition of one Comus, a noble man of the parties of Wales,Caratake cho|ſen to be cap|taine of the Brytaynes. they accorded to ſende Meſſengers vnto Caratake the King of Scot|lande, requyring him to ayde them in their right and iuſt quarel agaynſt Aruiragus and the Ro|maines, whereby hee might reuenge the iniurie done to his ſyſter Queene Voada and hir iſſue,Aruiragus woulde diſen|herite hys owne children which he had by Voada. whome the father throughe counſayle of the Ro|maines purpoſed to diſenherite, to the ende, ſuche chyldren as he had by Geniſſa (for that they were of the Romain bloud) might enioy the kingdome.

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