[109] And as to speake he wiste he might be bolde. ib.
[110] Vnquoth, N.
[111] But thus. ed. 1575.
[112] Some copies of Niccols have a castration of this Induction with some trifling difference of orthography.
[113] The story of Brutus, or Brute, as here related by his son Albanact, closely versifies the principal incidents of his history given in the Chronicle of Saint Albans; an authority probably referred to by Higgins in the prefaratory address as “an olde chronicle imprinted the year 1515,” that being the date of one of the editions printed by W. de Worde.
[114] Me first of all the princes of this lande. ed. 1575.
[115] Behold mee here. N.
[116] Then shalt thou see, what tale I mynde to frame. ed. 1575.
[117] The following stanza is second in edition 1575.
So if thou liste to heare what I recite,