Endless tales are told of the lives, and exploits, and quarrels of his successors down to the time of Caesar.
Conflicting claimants arose continually to dispute with each other for the possession of power; wars were made by one tribe upon another; cities, as they were called--though probably, in fact, they were only rude collections of hovels--were built, fortresses were founded, and rivers were named from princes or princesses drowned in them, in accidental journeys, or by the violence of rival claimants to their thrones.

The pretended records contain a vast number of legends, of very little interest or value, as the reader will readily admit when we tell him that the famous story of King Lear is the most entertaining one in the whole collection.

It is this: There was a king in the line named Lear.

He founded the city now called Leicester.

He had three daughters, whose names were Gonilla, Regana, and Cordiella.