Philadelphus, or a defence of Brutes, and the Brutans history Written by R. H.

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Philadelphus, or a defence of Brutes, and the Brutans history Written by R. H.
Author
Harvey, Richard, 1560-1623?
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Imprinted at London :: by Iohn Wolfe,
1593.
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Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character) -- Early works to 1800.
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"Philadelphus, or a defence of Brutes, and the Brutans history Written by R. H." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A72252.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Their vice or intem∣perance is in

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

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temple at Caerlud. Dionote Abbot of Bangor would not yeeld to Austin, because he was of another Pro∣uince, neither would he preach to the Saxons, be∣cause they spoyled the land, do Ethelbert king of Kent what he could vnto him.

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