puissance > power, strength
303.41
Yet after all these sorrowes, and huge hills
2 Of dying people, during eight yeares space,
Cadwallader not yielding to his ills,
4 From Armoricke, where long in wretched cace
He liu'd, returning to his natiue place,
6 Shalbe by vision staid from his intent:
For th'heauens haue decreed, to displace
8 The Britons, for their sinnes dew punishment,
And to the Saxons ouer-giue their gouernment.
1 "Yet after all these sorrows, and huge hills 2 Of dying people, during eight years' space, 3 Cadwallader, not yielding to his ills,
ills > adversities
4 From Armorica, where long in wretched case
Armorica > Brittany (see 210.64) case > plight
5 He lived, returning to his native place,
returning > [expecting to return]
6 Shall be by vision stayed from his intent: