To Winchester kyng Aruiragus rode,
Whether Claudius came wt Romans ful of pryde,
Where Aruiragus with Britayns him abode;
But as they should haue fought [foughten.] in that tyde,
By both theyr councelles [counsailers. edit. alt.] they were [drawē on] [drawe.] side:
[Claudius doughter] [The doughter of Claudius.] to wed they were accorde,
And truage to paye eche yere withoute discorde.
Then Claudius sente for dame [Gennyse,]
His doughter fayre, full womanly to see;
She came in haste, as then it myght suffyse,
To come oute frome [of.] so farre [lande and] countre,
And in a mede, with floures of greate [fresh.] beaute,
Wedded they were; where Claudius then made
A cytee fayre, Cayre Glowe [Clau.] to [the.] name it had.
¶ Of his name it was so denominate [*Wherof Glou∣cester was so named.]
Nowe Gloucester, standynge on Seuerne syde:
The [This.] maryage, after Christe was incarnate,
Was in the yere fourtye and syxe that tyde.
So in Britayne two yere he dyd abyde;
Orcades ysles in the meane tyme he conquered,
In whiche he enfeffid [feoffed.] the kyng, & hym preferred.
¶ And home to Rome he passed so agayne;
But after [efte.] agayne, the kyng truage denyed,
And none wolde paye; wherefore Vaspasyan
Hyther was sent, with Romains fortifyed.
At Ruteporte, that nowe Sandwiche is notifyed,
The kyng hym met and put hym [frome the] [fro his.] lande,
To Totenesse went, and notwithstandyng [no withstondyng.] fande.
¶ So went he forth to Exceter his waye, [Fol. xl.]
Caire Penelgorte then hight, and it assaide [assailed.] ,
Where then the kyng hym met the seuentene [seventh.] day
With hoste full stronge, but then the king preuayled;
But Gennyse, the quene, greatly auayled,
By her trety made them full well accorde,
That with Rome he dyd no more discorde.