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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The fable of Queen Guay|nores graue buried in Angus.There goeth a plaine tale ouer all that coun|trey, tolde for an aſſured truth, that if any womã chaunce to treade vpon that graue, they ſhall re|maine barren withoute bringing forth any iſſue more than the ſayd Guaynore did. But whether this be true or not, certaine it is, as Boetius wri|teth, that there dare no women come neare, that graue: not only eſchuing it themſelues, but alſo commaunding their daughters to beware therof.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This bloudie battaile weakened ſo much the forces both of the Scots, Pictes and Brytaynes, that many a day after they were not able to reco|uer againe their former eſtates or dignities.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The yeare alſo that theſe three nations encoũ|tred thus cruelly togither, was after the byrth of our Sauiour 542.

542.

8. H.B.

the .xxvj. of Arthurs raigne o|uer the Brytaynes, and the .xj. of Eugenius his gouernment ouer the Scottiſh men.

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