2 The hoohe of Hunting 



for the diflionor whiche they had receyued, as alfo for the irre- 

 cuparable lofTe and damage of their goods, and for the lamen- 

 tations and dole which they had caufe to make for their kinf- 

 folkes and friendes, whiche had bin flaine in the cruell warres 

 of Troye, they fliould neuer returne into their country. Then 

 did hee caufe to be rygged and trimmed a greate number of 

 fhippes, wherein he embarked himfelfe and all his men, and 

 tooke with him a great number of Houndes and Greyhoundes. 

 Afterwards he fayled fo long till he paflTed y* ftrcyghts of Git- 

 raltarCj entring into the Ocean Seas, and defcended in the 

 Ifles of Armorie^ whiche at this prefent is called Breta'igne in 

 Fraunce, by reafon of his name whiche was Brutus. Whiche 

 llandes he conquered without refiftaunce, and was therein, 

 peafably by the fpace of foure yeares, and afterwardes tooke 

 fhip again, and landed at Totneys^ in y* weft of this noble realmc, 

 whervpon after his conquefts made here ouer certaine giantes, 

 one of his captaines called Corineus^ did buy Id the chiefe town 

 of Cornwall. But to returne vnto his deedes in Armory^ when 

 they were fetled, and had inhabited the fayd country, Brutus and 

 his fonne Turnus, (which had as before fayde brought greate ftore 

 of houndes with them) went dayly on hunting in the greate 

 Forreft, whiche contayned then in length from Tyjfauge vnto 

 Fojtiers, wherevpon one parte of the country is called to this 

 present Gajiine. Now at that fame time there reygned in Foy- 

 Bou and Aquitaine^ a king named Grojfarius PiSius, who made 

 his continuall refidence in PoySfiers, and was one day aduer- 

 tifed that the Troyans did greatly exercife themfelues in hun- 

 ting, and that they hunted in his Forreftes with fuche a kinde 

 of dogges, as after they had once founde a Harte, they neuer 

 lefte him tyll they brought him to death. Wherevpon King 

 GrofariuSy hauing hearde fuche newes, was moued and ex- 

 ceeding angrie, in fuche forte, that hec determined to make 

 warres with them, and aftembled all his forces. The Troyans 

 being aduertifed of fuche an aftembly, marched all along 

 the ryuer of Loyre with all their puylTaunce, and mette their e- 



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