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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Scared hadde he ended his tale, but that wyth greate ſhoutes and clamoures they extolled the Kyng, as defendoure of theyr lyues and liber|tyes, aſſuring hym both of theyr bolde and har|dye ſtomackes and ſpeedfull expedition ioyned with theyr confederates, and with a runnyng Campe ſwepte euerye corner of the lande ra|ſed the Caſtelles to the grounde, chaſed away the ſtraungers, ſlewe all that aboade battayle, eche man recoueryng hys owne, wyth the ſtate of gouernement.

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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus in effecte haue the Iriſh writers repor|ted of Turgeſius a Norwegian, whether he did reygne before the ſuppoſed tyme of [...], or whether that hee came thyther as Lieue|tenaunt EEBO page image 16 to him, whiche if it ſhoulde bee true, no doubte the ſame Gurmonde was ſome Kyng of the Danes, or Norweygians, and not of the Affricanes, (as ſome of our countreymen name hym.) Which errour is ſoone committed, in takyng one Heatheniſhe nation for an other,Gurmonde. as thoſe haue doone that haue named the Hun|garians (when they inuaded Gallia before they were Chriſtians) Sarazins: And ſo lykewyſe might that authour (who ſo euer he was) whom Geffrey of Monmouth foloweth, fynding Gur|monde written to be a king of the myſcreantes, miſtake the Norwegians for Affricanes, bicauſe both thoſe nations were Infidels: and therefore ſith haply the Affricanes in the dayes when that Author lyued, bare al the brute aboue other Hea|theniſhe nations then, as the Turkes do nowe, he named them Africanes.

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