Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the same yere before the battell, were séene ma|nie Strange and vnketh woon|ders. strange sights in Albion. Grasse and hearbs in Yorkeshire appeared to bée all stained with bloud. Néere vnto Camelon, a cow brought foorth a calfe with two heads. Also an ewe brought foorth a lambe that was both male and female. The sunne appeared about noone daies all wholie of a bloudie colour. The element appeared full of bright starres to euerie mans sight continuallie for the space of two daies togither. In Wales there was a battell betweene crowes and pies on the one side, and rauens on the other, with such a slaughter of them, as before that time had not beene heard of.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But to procéed. Eugenius king of the Scots at Eugenius re|wardeth his souldiers. his returne from the battell, gaue to those that had escaped with life, and abid by him in the chiefe dan|ger of the fight, manie bounteous & large rewards. The sonnes and néerest kinsfolke of such as were EEBO page image 107 staine, he also aduanced to sundrie preferments of lands & liuings, that they in [...]oieng the same, might be a witnesse in time to come of the good seruice of their ancestors, shewed in defense of their king and countrie, and also of his princelie liberalitie, in re|warding the same vpon their issue and progenie. By which noble beneuolence, he wan him such loue amongst his people, that afterwards it séemed how [...]nins go [...] his [...] with [...]. he gouerned the state of his kingdome more by cle|mencie, than by anie rigour of lawes. The Britains immediatlie vpon knowledge had that Arthur was slaine, crowned Constantine his successor in the Constantine [...]ned king [...] Britaine. British kingdome, and for that there should remaine none amongst them aliue to make anie claime to the same kingdome, other than he with his issue, or such as he should appoint to succeed him, they cruel|lie murthered Mordreds children, in most pitifull The crueltie of the Bri|tains in mur|thering the in|nocent childrẽ of Mordred. The linage of Mordred [...]extinct. wise running vnto their mothers lap, beséeching hir to saue their liues, according to hir motherlie dutie. They were brought vp in Gawolane their fathers grandfathers house, and being thus made awaie, the familie and linage of their father the foresaid Mor|dred was vtterlie thereby extinguished.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Saxons at the same time hauing aduertise|ment what losse the Britains had susteined, not on|lie by the death of their most valiant king and chief|teine Arthur, but also for the slaughter of such a mul|titude of their nation as died in the battell, they pre|pare a mightie nauie of ships, and passe ouer the same into England, where being landed, they easilie The Saxons returne into England, and drine the Bri|tains into wales. beat downe the Britains, and driue them with their K. Constantine into Wales, so recouering all that part of the land which Hengist somtimes held, & after his name was afterwards called England. ¶ Some haue written, how that after king Constantine had reigned certeine yéeres in Wales, his wife and chil|dren died, whervpon waxing wearie of this world, he Constantine [...] his [...] king| [...] [...] hope [...] heauen| [...] [...]gdome. Constantine intereth into religion. forsooke his earthlie kingdome, in hope of that other aboue, and secretlie departed into Ireland, where ap|plieng himselfe for a time in ministring to the poore, at length being knowne, by the persuasion of a moonke he became one of his cote and profession.