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Loue: When Ronowen had saluted Vortiger with a golden cup of wine, and desired him to drinke of it, he beheld her bewtie, and was presently so inamored of her, that he could not be quiet, till he had put away his owne wife, by whom he had three sons and mar∣ried her, and for her sake loued Saxons more then Brutans: he lay with his owne daughter to haue issue of her, but in vaine. Vter fell in loue with Igerne the wife of Gorleis Duke of Cornewall, and slewe him at his castell Tintagel, and tooke her to wife. Malgo fel into the sinne of Sodom, and lost all that he had gotten aforetime: let not sense rule reason.
Liberalitie: Vortiger entertained Hengist, and Hor∣sus with their three ships, he gaue them ye hire of soul∣diers, he bestowed the Ile of Tenet vpon them: hee graunted Hengist so much ground as hee could com∣passe with a buls hide: he took away the Earldom of Kent from Garangon, and gaue it him.
Anger: Constantine the third siue one of Mordreds sonnes for rebelling against him euen in the Minster of Winchester: the other for the same cause in the