But > So

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The weary Britons, whose war-hable youth
2 Was by Maximian lately led away,
With wretched miseries, and woefull ruth,
4 Were to those Pagans made an open pray,
And dayly spectacle of sad decay:
6 Whom Romane warres, which now foure hundred yeares,
And more had wasted, could no whit dismay;
8 Till by consent of Commons and of Peares,
They crownd the second Constantine with ioyous teares,

1 The weary Britons, whose war-able youth

war-able > {Suited to warfare}

2 Was by Maximian lately led away, 3 With wretched miseries, and woeful ruth,

ruth > calamity; sorrow

4 Were to those pagans made an open prey,

to > [of] open > defenceless

5 And daily spectacle of sad decay: