How Vortiger went into Walis, and biganne þere a castel, þat wolde nouȝt stande wiþouten morter temprede wiþ mannes blode. ¶ Capitulo ¶ Sexagesimo.
[MS Rawlinson B 171 24b] WHen Engist hade departede al þe lande in this maner bituene his men, he delyuerede Vortiger out of prison, and soffrede hym frely to gone whider þat he wolde. and he toke his way, and went into Walys, þere þat his Britons duellede, for-asmiche as þat lande was strong and wikkede to wynne. and Engist neuer come þere, ne knew neuer bifore þat Lande. ¶ Vortiger helde him þere wiþ his Britons, and axede conseil what him was best al forto done; and þai ȝaf him conseil to make a stronge castel þat he myȝt him-self þerin kepe and defende if it nede were. Masounes in hast þere were fette, and bigonne þe werk oppon þe hull of Breigh; but certes þus it bi-felle, þat al the werk þat þe masounes made aday, adoune it felle anyȝt; and þat ferede so iij tymes or iiij, wherof þai hadden grete wonder what it myȝt bene; & þerof þe kyng was sore annoiede of þat chaunce, and wist nouȝt what to done; wherfore he lete sende after þe wisest clerkes, and also lewede men þat weren þrouȝ-out Walys, þat myght bene fonde, for þai shulde telle wherfore þe