Compare 1587 edition: 1 [figure appears here on page 45] AFter Cor|breyd ſuc|ceded one Dar+dan,Dar|dan. which for his huge ſta|ture was after+warde ſurna|med the great. He was lyne|ally deſcended from Metel|lane, who was his great grandfather.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 The Nobles and Commons of the Realme choſe him to their king, onely for the good opi|nion they had conceyued of him in his predeceſ|ſours dayes, by whome he was had in great e [...]ti|mation, and had atchieued vnder him manye worthie enterpriſes, ſo that he was thought moſt meeteſt for the roome, conſidering the ſonnes of Corbreyd were not as yet come to ripe yeares to enioy the ſame.Corbreyd his three ſonnes. For the ſayd Corbreyd had three ſonnes in all, Corbreyd, Tulcane, and Breeke. The eldeſt had beene brought vp with Voada, EEBO page image 46 Queene of the Brytains, whereby he had lear|ned the maners & vſages of the Bryttiſh natiõ, and therevpon was ſurnamed Galde: for ſo the Scottiſh men vſe euen vnto this day to name a|ny of theyr owne countrey men that hath lear|ned the courteſie and manners of ſtraunge coun|treys. But to returne to Dardane, in the begin|ning of his raigne he gouerned the eſtate by good indifferent iuſtice, but after he had cõtinued ther|in by the ſpace of two yeares,Dardane fal|leth into all kind of vices. he began to fall in|to all kinde of vices, remouing from offices ſuch as were vpright bearers of themſelues, in the ſome and aduancing to their places brybers and extorcioners.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The nobles he had in ſuſpect, fauouring one|ly ſuche as through flatterie were by him prefer|red: And where he was drowned beyond all the termes of honeſtie in fleſhly and ſenſual luſt, yet was his couetouſneſſe ſo great, that all was to little which he might lay handes vpon.