[695] As for myselfe I doe not. N.
[696] That to the dead these moderne writers doe. N.
[697] Any one of yore. N.
[698] Both tall forraine force in fight. N.
[699] Of their foes may haue. N.
[700] Place height Ely of his name. N. Some, as Camden observes, derive the name of Ely “from Helig, a British word signifying willows or sallows, which it bears in abundance; and indeed they are the only thriving trees here.” Camden’s Britannia.
[701] This stanza omitted by Niccols.
[702] Lanquet, Stowe, Grafton, Flores Histor. Margin of ed. 1575.
——as stories tell,