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# Description This page contains running verse prose, not a title page or illustration. It appears to be from *Albion's England*, a historical poem (the header identifies it as "3. Bookes," Chapter 15, page 68). The text is written in early modern English and recounts mythological and legendary genealogies of British peoples—tracing Scottish origins from figures like Cecrops and Pharaoh's daughter Scota through Jacob's lineage, and describing how various Celtic and Scythian peoples (Scots, Picts, Irish) settled in Britain and the Isles, with references to civil conflicts and territorial disputes. The passage emphasizes descent lines and dynastic claims in ornate, densely allusive verse.
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he we mo i — sh PM ie acai il Wa maT <2, Pi Crew Eye » _- : | “ALBIONS ENGLAND. re rere | Lifts vp his faynting hands,and knewthe Tyranneffeanone : ; | And maketh fignes,as who would fay,ah mother thou haft done | A deed,as never mother earft did practife on her Sonne. ut name of fon,nor fignes did ferue,him till with wounds fhe plyes ) | Nor (more than Monfter) did it pleafe that fimplie fo he dyes, | Bat that his bodie,peecemeale tore about the Lodging flyes, Bod thus from noble Brute his linethe{cepter thendid pafle: | When of his bloud for to fucceede no heire firuiuing was, sic: Dukes at once,in ciuil broyles,{eiunétly after raine. Neere when,the Scottes (who fome accufe by Ante-dates to gain) ‘Did fettle in the Northerne Ifles, Thefe people bring their line _ From Cecrops and that P/aro, be that euer did decline From ofes{ecking Hebers Koule from AEgypt to conuay. - His daughter Scota “Gathelus their Duke brought thenceaway, When Pharos finne to Jacobs feede did neere that Land decay. And Cecrops {on bronght thé from thence(as Scortes inforce the fame). The ftone that sacod flept vpon, when Angels went and came:.. . Of; it was made their fatall Chaire, of which they beare in hates } Chat whearefoere the fame ts found; the Scottes {hal brooke the land: } | AtWefminfter thar Monument doth now, decaying, ftand.. In Lujiranea Gathelus did firtthis kingdome found , And of his race(of Scota,Scottes)when Spanifh Scottes abound, , _ Ariuein Jreland,and in iva fecond Empire ground: _ And thirdly, when their broodie Race that lfle did ouer-ftore, | ‘Anonet the Iflands Hebredes they feeke out dwellings more. Thete /7i[h, fometime Spamifh Scors, of whence our now-Scortes bey, > Withi nthe Ifles of Albion thus, whillt Brataimes dilagree,, | - Did featthemfelues,& neftle too amongft the Mountaine groundes: — Wharttimea Scythian people, Pichres, did feazethe middle boundes b, _ Twixt them and vs: & thefe did prooueto Bratainedouble worse 7 The Penthland. people and the Scots,alying,triendly line, + i hictvs 9 aie pee Picths by oe oe scontarie. caule did giue, a Ons I | | Eom ero _