9 To read those books; who gladly granted their desire.
CANTO X
A chronicle of Briton kings,
2 from Brute to Vthers rayne.
And rolles of Elfin Emperours,
4 till time of Gloriane.
1 A chronicle of Briton kings
chronicle > (Spenser derives his chronicle from standard chronicles, principally the twelfth-century Historia Regum Britanniae (HRB) by Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Elizabethan sources such as Holinshed's Chronicles. A full account is in Harper (1910), abstracted in Var. 301-34, 449-53; Hamilton (1980) provides further comment)
2 from Brutus to Uther's reign.
Brutus > (The mythical first king of Britain, great-grandson of
Aeneas)
Uther > (Uther Pendragon, father of Arthur; see 210.68:1-2)
3 And rolls of Elfin emperors
rolls > registers, lists
4 till time of Gloriana.