(Quoth he) behinde as yet, is one the beste:
“Do stay a whyle, giue eare till he be past,
“And therewithall approtched one full fast,
The worthiest wight I euer erste did see”:
These wordes he spake, or like it seemed mee.
[674] Not in the first edition.
[675] Except the rest of Britaine princes should. N.
[676] The chronicles say six or seuen years, and deposed for his tyranny.
[677] To yex, to have the hiccough. Johnson.
[678] Not in the first edition.