8 Who brought with him the Holy Grail, (they say)
Holy Grail > (The Sangreal, the platter used at the last supper, in which Joseph is said to have received Christ's blood at the cross. A persistent medieval legend has Joseph bringing the Sangreal, and with it Christianity, to Glastonbury in western England)
9 And preached the truth; but since it greatly did decay.
since > subsequently
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This good king shortly without issew dide,
2 Whereof great trouble in the kingdome grew,
That did her selfe in sundry parts diuide,
4 And with her powre her owne selfe ouerthrew,
Whilest Romanes dayly did the weake subdew:
6 Which seeing stout Bunduca, vp arose,
And taking armes, the Britons to her drew;
8 With whom she marched streight against her foes,
And them vnwares besides the Seuerne did enclose.
1 This good king shortly without issue died, 2 Whereof great trouble in the kingdom grew, 3 That did itself in sundry parts divide,
sundry > various
4 And with its power its own self overthrew, 5 While Romans daily did the weak subdue: 6 Which seeing, stout Boadicea up arose,
stout > brave; proud Boadicea > (Or Boudicca, widow of the British king, Cunobelinus. As a result of atrocities committed by the Romans against the Iceni tribe in East Anglia, in 61 AD she led an army of 80,000 Britons into battle against Suetonius's 14th and 20th Legions; the field, near the present site of Daventry, in Northamptonshire, saw the death of 400 Romans and some 70,000 Britons. However, final subjugation by Rome was not achieved until 83 AD)