Thou goddesse that doost rule
the woods and forrests greene,
And chasest foming boares
that flee thine awfull sight,
Thou that maist passe aloft
in airie skies so sheene,
And walke eke vnder earth
in places void of light,
Discouer earthlie states,
direct our course aright,
And shew where we shall dwell,
according to thy will,
In seates of sure abode,
where temples we may dight
For virgins that shall sound
thy laud with voices shrill.

After this praier and ceremonie done, according to the pagane rite and custome, Brute abiding his answer, fell asleepe:  in which sleepe appeared to him the said goddesse vttering this answer in the verses following expressed.

Brute, sub occasum solis trans Gallica regna,
Insula in oceano est, vndiq; clausa mari,
Insula in oceano est, habitata gigantibus olim,
Nunc deserta quidem, gentibus apta tuis: 
Hanc pete, namq; tibi sedes erit ilia perennis,
Hic fiet natis altera Troia tuis: 
Hic de prole tua reges nascentur, & ipsis
Totius terrae subditus orbis erit.

     Brute, farre by-west beyond the Gallike
          land is found,
     An Ile which with the ocean seas
          inclosed is about,
     Where giants dwelt sometime,
          but now is desart ground,
     Most meet where thou maist plant
          thy selfe with all thy rout: 
     Make thitherwards with speed,
          for there thou shalt find out
     An euerduring seat,
          and Troie shall rise anew,
     Vnto thy race, of whom
          shall kings be borne no dout,
     That with their mightie power
          the world shall whole subdew.

After he awaked out of sleepe, and had called his dreame to remembrance, he first doubted whether it were a verie dreame, or a true vision, the goddes hauing spoken to him with liuelie voice.  Wherevpon calling such of his companie vnto him as he thought requisite in such a case, he declared vnto them the whole matter with the circumstances, whereat they greatlie reioising, caused mightie bonfires to be made, in the which they cast wine, milke, and other liquors, with diuers gums and spices of most sweet smell and sauour, as in the pagan religion was accustomed.  Which obseruances and ceremonies performed and brought to end, they returned streightwaies to their ships, and as soone as the wind served, passed forward on their iournie with great ioy and gladnesse, as men put in comfort to find out the wished seats for their firme and sure [Sidenote:  Brute with his companie landed in Affrike.] habitations.  From hence therefore they cast about, and making westward, first arrived in Affrica, and after keeping on their course, they passed the straits of Gibralterra, and coasting alongst the shore on the right hand, they found another companie that were likewise descended of the [Sidenote:  The mistaking of those that haue copied the British historie putting Mare Tyrrhenum, for Pyrenaeum] Troian progenie, on the coasts nere where the Pyrenine hils shoot downe to the sea, whereof the same sea by good reason (as some suppose) was named in those daies Mare Pyrenaeum, although hitherto by fault of writers & copiers of the British historie receiued, in this place Mare Tyrrhenum, was slightlie put downe in stead of Pyrenaeum.