Militiæ clarum decus, & virtutis alumnus:
_Of chiualrie the bright renowme, and vertues nursling fearse:_
Gloria nunc cuius terram circumuolat omnem,
_Whose glorie great now ouer all the world dooth compasse flie,_
Aetherijque petit sublimia tecta Tonantis.
_And of the airie thunder skales the loftie building hie_.
Vos igitur gentis proles generosa Britannæ,
_Therefore you noble progenie of Britaine line and race,_
Induperatori ter magno assurgite vestro,
_Arise vnto your emperour great, of thrice renowmed grace,_
Et tumulo sacro roseas inferte corollas,
_And cast vpon his sacred toome the roseall garlands gaie,_
Officij testes redolentia munera vestri.
_That fragrant smell may witnesse well, your duties you displaie_.

¶ These verses I haue the more willinglie inserted, for that I had
the same deliuered to me turned into English by maister Nicholas
Roscarocke, both right aptlie yeelding the sense, and also properlie
answering the Latine, verse for verse.

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_Vpon what occasion the graue of king Arthur was sought for, the
follie of such discouered as beleeued that he should returne and
reigne againe as king in Britaine, whether it be a fiction or a
veritie that there was such an Arthur or no; discordance among writers
about the place of Gawains buriall and Arthurs death; of queene