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vnderstanding that by winning him fame in the beginning, it should be no small furthe|rance vnto him for the
atchiuing of other enterpri|ses in time to come, determined to pursue his good fortune, and therevpon
prepared to subdue the Ile Here is a ma|nifest error in the Scotish writers, ta|king Man
for Anglesey. Agricola as|saileth the Ile of Anglesey and not Man as Hector Boe [...]ius mistaketh it. of Man; but wanting vessels to conuey his armie ouer, he found
meanes that such as could swim, and knew the shallow places of that coast, made shift to passe the goolfe,
and so got on land, to the great woon|der and amazing of the inhabitants, who watched the sea coasts, to resist such ships as they looked for to haue arriued vpon their shore: but
now despairing to resist such kind of warriors as indangered them|selues to passe the seas in that maner of
wise, they submitted themselues vnto Agricola.
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pledges of them, and appointing cer|teine garisons to kéepe diuers holds and places of defense within that
Ile, passed ouer with the residue The Ile of Ang [...]sey is subdued by Agricola. of his people into Galloway, where he soiourned all the winter
following: which being passed, and sum|mer once come, he assembled his men
of warre a|gaine, and visited a great part of that countrie with Kile, Carrike, and Coningham, the
inhabitants whereof he put in such feare with the onelie shew of his warlike armie, disposed in such
politike order and wise conduct, that there was none to be found that durst aduance themselues to incounter
him, so that he spent that summers season in kéeping such of the Scots as had beene aforetime subdued, from
at|tempting any commotion. And when winter was come, he assembled the nobles of the countrie, ex|horting
Agricola stu|dieth to bring the Scots vnto [...]itie. them by gentle persuasions, to frame them|selues to a ciuill trade of liuing, as well
in building of temples, houses, and other ed [...]ces after the Ro|man maner, as also in wearing of comelie and de|cent apparell; and aboue all things
to set their chil|dren to schoole, to be brought vp in eloquence and good nurture. By this meanes he thought
to traine them from their accustomed fiercenesse, and to win them the sooner to be content with bondage,
though he coloured it with neuer so faire a glose of huma|nitie.
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winter being thus spent, and the next summer commen vpon, Agricola inuaded such coun|tries as were yet
vndiscouered by the Romans, en|tring Kalenda [...] wood. Agrico|la commeth to Sterling. by the nether side of Calidon wood, euen vnto the
dolorous mounteine, which afterwards by the Scots was cleped Sterling. It was called the do|lorous
mounteine, for that in the night season there was heard right lamentable noise & cries, as though
the same had béene of some creatures that had be|wailed their miserable cases: which vndoubtedlie was the
craftie illusions of wicked spirits, to kéepe mens minds still oppressed in blind errors and su|perstitious
fantasies.
