Sentence:  This same token should be of Luces the emperor, and of the Senators [of Rome], who with him came from Rome [thither]; ' and in the same wise, they there gan fall;' what Merlin in <WSD>foredays</WSD> said, all they it found there, as they did ere, and subsequently well everywhere; ere Arthur were born, Merlin it all [all it is] predicted. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Past  or former days