Lines 7901 through 8000
þat ȝif ich mine þi blod; ut of þire breoste;
7901
& minne wal wurche; & do to mine l((i))me.
7902
Nu þu hit wost al; hu þe iwurðe scal.
7904
Þis ihærde Mærlin; & bælh on his mode.
7905
& þas word sæide; wrað þeh he weore.
7906
Nulle hit nauere God seolf; þe gumenene is lauerd.
7907
þat þi castel stonde; for mine heorte blode.
7908
ne nauere þi stan wal; stille ne ligge.
7909
For alle þine witien; beo swiðe swikele.
7910
i sæi[ð] læssinge; bi-foren þæ seolue.
7911
þat þu scalt afinde; a þisses dæies ferste.
7912
for þis sæde Ioram; þe is mi fulle ifa.
7913
þa tiðende me þuncheð game; ich wes iscæpen him to bone.
7914
Let cumen biuoren; Ioram þine witie.
7915
& alle his iuere; forð-rihtes here.
7916
þa þeos lesinge; talden þan kinge.
7917
& ȝif ich þe sugge; soðe mine worde.
7918
of þine walle; & whi ((he)) adun falleð.
7919
and mid soðe hit bitelle; þat heore talen [s]inde lese.
7920
ȝef me heore hæfden; ȝif ich þi wærc hæle.
7921
Þa andswarede þe king; mid quickere steuene.
7922
Swa me helpe min hond; þis forwærde ich þe halde.
7923
To þan kinge was ibroht; Ioram þe witie.
7924
& seofue of his iueren; alle heo weoren uæie;
7925
Marline gromede; & he grimliche spæc.
7926
Sæie me Ioram leod-swike; lað me on heorten.
7927
whi falleð þes wal; uolden to grunde.
7928
Sæie me w[hæ] hit vælleð; þat þe wal reoseð.
7929
What mai man uinden; at þere dic-grunde.
7930
Ioram wes stille; ne cuðe he noht tellen.
7931
Þa seide Merlin þas word; King hald me for-ward.
7932
Let deluen þas dich; seouen uoten deopere.
7933
Heo scullen uinden ænne stan; wunder ane ueire.
7934
he is ueir & brad; volke to bi-halden.
7935
Þa dich wes idoluen; seoue vet depre.
7936
Þa sæide Mærlin þas word; King hald me forward.
7938
Sæie me Ioram; monne me la[ð]est;
7939
& sæie þisse kinge. wulches cunnes þinges;
7940
vnder þissen stane. staðel habbeoð inumen.
7941
Ioram wes stille; ne cuðe he noht telle.
7942
Þa sæide Mærlin wunder; A water her is under.
7943
Doh a-wai þisne stan; þat water ȝe findeð a-nan.
7944
Heo duden a-wæi þene stan; at-foren þan kinge anon.
7945
þat water heo funden; þa sæide Merlin.
7946
Æxe me Ioram; þe is mi fulle ifa.
7947
umben ane stunde; suggen þe of þan grunde.
7948
what wuneð i þan watere; wintres & sum%meres.
7949
Þe king. axede Ioram; ah ne cuðe he nowiht þer-on.
7950
Þa ȝet sæide Mærlin þas word; King hald me foreward.
7951
Let alæten þis wæter; & wei weorpen.
7952
Þer wunieð i þan grunde; tweien draken stronge.
7953
Þe an is a norð half; þe oðer a suð half.
7954
þe o[ð]er is milc-whit; ælche deore unnilich.
7955
þe oðer ræd alse blod; wurmen alre baldest.
7956
Ælche middernihte; heo big[i]nneð to fihten.
7957
[and þurh hire fihte] feollen þine wurckes;
7958
þa eorðe gon to-rusien; & þi wal to-reosen.
7959
þurh swulche wundre; þi wal is afallen.
7960
þa iwrað i þissen flode; & noht for mine blode.
7961
Þis wæter wes al ilæde; þes kinges men weoren glæde.
7962
muchel wes þa blisse; biuoren þan leod-kinge.
7963
& sone þer-æfter; sari heo weoren.
7964
ær þe dæi come to ende; heo iherden tiðinde.
7965
Þa þa water wes al ilædden; & þe put wes ilær.
7966
þa comen ut þas tweien draken; & muchel dunen makeden.
7967
& fuhten grimliche; dun i þere dich.
7968
Ne isæh nauere na cniht; nan ladluker fiht.
7969
fluȝen of heore muðe; fures leomen.
7970
Þis isah þe leod-king; grimme heore lates.
7971
Þa wes he awundred; on þissere wurlde-riche.
7972
what weore þis tacninge; þa he isæh þer on grunde.
7973
& hu Mærlin hit wuste; þat nan oðer mon nuste.
7974
Ærest wes þe white buuen; & seoððen he wes bi-neoðen.
7975
& þe drake ræde; for-wundede hine to dæðe.
7976
and æiðer wende to his hole; ne isæh heom seoððe na mon iboren.
7977
Þus ferden þeos þing; þat isah Vortigerne þe king.
7978
and alle þe weoren mid him; luueden swiðe Mærlin.
7979
& þe king hatede Ioram; & his hæfued him binam.
7980
& his seouene iueren; þe mid him weoren þære.
7981
& seide him mid mucle luue; Mærling þu ært wil-cume.
7983
& ich þe ȝiuen wulle; al þat þu ȝirnest.
7984
of mine londe; of seoluere & of golde.
7985
He wende þurh Mærlin; þat lond al iwinnen.
7986
ah al oðer hit wende; ær comen þes daies ende.
7987
Þus fræinede þe king; his leofe freond Merlin.
7988
Sæie me nu Merlin; monnen me leofuest.
7989
what bitacnieð þa draken; þe þene dune makeden.
7990
þe stan & þat water; & þat wunde((r))liche fæht.
7991
Sæie me ȝif þi wil is; whæt bitacneð al þis.
7992
& seoððen þu most me ræden; hu ich scal me læden.
7993
& hu ich mai biwinne; kinedom minne.
7994
of Hengest mines wiues fader; þe swiðe me hæfð i-harmed.
7995
Þa andswarede Merlin; þane kinge þe spac wið him.
7996
King þu ært unwis; & vnwiter a ræde.
7997
Þu fræinest of þan draken; þe þene dune makeden.
7998
& whæt tacne[ð] heore fiht; & heore feond-liche gripen.
7999
Heo tacneð kinges; þa sunde to cumene.
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