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Ambition: Carasse a Brutan of lowe birth, of a high heart, but a venturous man, a very hardydardy in deede as euer liued, keeping the Hauens, and play∣ing the Sea captaine, aspired to the kingdome and got it, both by greater promises then hee coulde per∣performe, and by gathering more bankrupts & ruffi∣ans to his side then he could keepe, and contemning all noble and great men in the Land: there was but one way with him, and that was in his head onely: all was one with him, so that one might be all: selfe-loue was selfewill, and both were for himselfe.
Abiection of minde: When Coil the third saw, that Constantius was come from Roome with a great ar∣mie, he feared and graunted him tribute and peace, and euery thing els, to be out of danger, yet the most danger and damage in graunting these: A babies wit in a kings estate. The Brutans being afflicted by the Picts two times promised the Romanes a tribute to helpe them: then they submitted themselues to Aldroene of little Brutany, that he might succour them. O Heauens: where was olde Brutanie now? where, but in the Sea as a dead sea Whale?