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FTER that this our iland (firt inhabited by Brute) began to flourih with arts and arms, in the famous city of Coventry lived the renowned Albert, Lord High Steward of England, that took to wife a lady of matchles beauty and virtue, who, having been long barren, at lat conceived with child, but nightly dreams o tormented her mind, that he was conceived of a Dragon which hould caue her death, that he never ceaed, but caus'd her lord by art to learn what hould be the meaning thereof, who, condecending to her deires, accompanied only with one knight, repaired to Kalby, the lady of the woods, from whom he received this myterious Oracle:

Having received this anwer, they oon returned, but