With bleeding woundes, as if newe slaine hee were:
Reciting first the hauty haps hee had,
And then his fall in fight, his Fortune bad.
If hee vnstatelike stammer out the same,
With staylesse staggering footed verse, by ame,
Let hardly him receiue thereof the blame:
Or geue the faute to th’ countrey whence hee came.
How King Stater of Scotland was slayne by Mulmucius Donwallo, about the yeare before Christ, 441.[556]
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Stint not in stories truely for to tell[557]