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The. xii. Chapiter.
¶ Howe Corneus wrastilled with Gogmagog, the giaunt of the Isle, and sleugh hym.
BVt for he would knowe all his resistens,
What he might dooe more then Corneus [Coryneus.] ,
He made theim bothe dooe their sufficiēce
In all wrastleyng, whiche was moost rigorous [vigorous.] ,
And to defende or sawte moost [more.] curious.
On the sea banke, afore Brutus [Brute.] thei mette,
Where, by accorde, the daye and place was sette.
¶ This Gogmagog so thrafte [thraste.] Corneus [Coryneus.] ,
That rybbes three were broken in his side;
Corneus [Coryneus.] then of might full laborous,
Thought he would [sone] reuenge [revenge it.] that tide,
With that he stode and sette his leggues wyde,
And gatte hym vp betwene his armes faste,
And ouer the roche into the sea hym caste.
¶ Whiche place hight yet Gogmagoges sawte,
By cause he leped their frome Corneus [Coryneus.] ,
All if it wer nothyng in his defaute,
But by the might of Coryn full vigorous, [Coryn.]
Who was alway in bataill fortunous:
For whiche Brutus [Brute.] had hym in greate deynte,
And gaue hym aye worship and dignite.
¶ This Brutus [Brute.] thus was kyng in regalite,
And, after his name, he called this Isle Briteyn, [This Isle Bri∣teyne.]
And all his menne, by that same egalite,
He called Briteynes, as chroniclers all saine,
Of whiche thei all were full [than full.] glad and faine:
To Corneus [Coryneus.] he gaue to his availe [Corneus.]
The duchie whole, and lande of [of all.] Cornwayle.