Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 This liberall proffer was of Turgesius accepted (whose desire was most insatiable) with manie good words, thanks, & faire promises. To be short, the same daie Omalaghlilen put his daughter in prince|like apparell, attired after the trimmest wise, and with hir sixteene proper yoong men beautifull and a|miable to behold: and so being sent to the king were The like was practised by Alexander son to Amyn|tas king of Macedon a|gainst the Persian ara|bassadors. Carion lib. 3. fol. 109. presented vnto him in his priuie chamber, hauing none about him but a few dissolute youthfull per|sons; whervpon those disguised yoong striplings drew foorth from vnder their long womanish garments their skeins, and valiantlie bestirring themselues, first stabbed their weapons points through the bodie of the tyrant, and then serued all those youths that were about him with the like sawce, they making small or no resistance at all. The brute of this mur|ther was quicklie blowne abrode through all Ire|land: and the princes readie to catch hold on such ad|uantage, rose in armes with one assent, in purpose to deliuer themselues from bondage, and recouer li|bertie.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 All Meth and Leinster were speedilie got togi|ther, The persuasi|on of Oma|laghlilen. resorting vnto Omalaghlilen the author of this practise, who lightlie leapt to horsse, and commending their forward redinesse in so naturall a quarell, said:
My lords and fréends, this case neither admitteth de|laie, nor requireth policie; hart and hast is all in all. Whilest the matter is fresh and greene, and that some of our enimies lie still and sléepe, some lament, some cursse, some are togither in councell, and all the whole number dismaied: let vs preuent their furie, dis|member their force, cut off their flight, seize vpon their places of refuge and succour. It is no victorie to plucke their feathers, but to breake their necks; not to chase them in, but to rowse them out; to weed them, not to rake them; not to tread them downe, but to root them vp. This lesson the tyrant himselfe did teach me. I once demanded of him as it were in a parable, by what good husbandrie the land might be rid of certeine rauening foules that annoied it. He aduised vs to watch where they bred, and to fire their nests about their eares. Go we then vpon these cor|uorants which shrowd themselues in our possessions, and let vs so destroie them, that neither nest nor root, neither séed nor stalke, neither branch nor stumpe shall remaine of this vngratious generation.Scarse had he ended his tale, but that with great showts and clamors they extolled the king, as defendor of their liues and liberties; assuring them both of their bold and hardie stomachs and speedfull expedition ioi|ned with their confederats, and with a running campe swept euerie corner of the land, rased the ca|stels to the ground, chased awaie the strangers, slue all that abode battell, ech man recouering his owne, with the state of gouernment.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus in effect haue the Irish writers reported of Turgesius a Norwegian, whether he did reigne be|fore the supposed time of Gurmond, or whether that he came thither as lieutenant to him: which if it shuld be true, no doubt the same Gurmond was some king of the Danes, or Norwegians, and not of the Affricans (as some of our countrimen name him.) Which error is soone committed, in taking one hea|thenish Gurmond. nation for another, as those men haue doone that haue named the Hungarians (when they did inuade Gallia before they were christians) Sara|cens. And so likewise might that author (whosoeuer he was) whome Geffreie of Monmouth followeth, finding Gurmond written to be a king of the mis|creants, mistake the Norwegians for Affricans, be|cause EEBO page image 57 both those nations were infidels: and therfore sith happilie the Affricans in the daies when that au|thor liued, bare all the brute aboue other heathenish nations then, as the Turks doo now, he named them Affricans. Howsoeuer it was, certeine it is that the Danes or Norwegians made sundrie inuasions into Ireland, and that at seuerall times. But for Turgesius, whether he were an absolute king, or but a lieutenant of some armie, vnder some other king named Gurmound, or peraduenture Gormo, (as such names are soon corrupted) I cannot affirme, bicause that no certeine time is set downe in the chronicles which are written of those nations, where|by they may be so reconciled togither, as sufficeth to warrant anie likelie coniecture in this behalfe.