Hit nes þer-after noþing long [It was. noþing fehlt.]
Þat þere ne com a werre strong [ne fehlt.]
Oup-on þe enpereour.
Þidere wente monie a kniȝt, [Theder. many a.]
Wel .I.-armet to þat fiȝt, [Wel Iarmede, I ȝou a plyȝht.]
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To sawuen his honour. [saue.]
Þidere comen kniȝttes tweyne, [Theder went. two.]
Wel gode in fiȝte hy weren beyne, [And þi wer to fyght also.]
Wiþ hors and armes gode. [hernes gode.]
Þere nes non at þare plawe [Þer was none in all þat playe]
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Wiþ sheld and spere out .I.-drawe [With spere & suerd þat ilke dey,]
Þat hoere dunt atstode. [Þat there dynte ne withstode.]
Þo hy heueden wel .I.-fouhte — [When þi hade fouutene alle þe deye]
Þat hit wes wel, al so hem þouhte — [And scomfet þe oþer syde aweye,]
Hy wenten to hoere inne. [Þi went bothe to one inne.]
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Wel gode .I.-feren hy bicomen, [There gode feloys þi becomme,]
At one house hoere in hy nomen, [As þi hade bene queynted at home,]
Wiþ-outen vuel enginne. [By grace of god, I wene.]
To-gadere hy eten of one disse, [To-geder þi dyde syte at mete]
Boþe of flesse and of ffisse, [And bothe of one dyssche þi ete.]
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And maden hem wel bliþe. [hem fehlt. fulle.]
After mete hy tolden tales [met. þi tolde talys.]
Of hoere auentures fales [Of auentures & herd batayles]
And of here liwes siþe. [And of all þer lyfe.]
Þe ȝongore broþer of hem twam [The ȝonge man of the two]
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His broþer exede after þan [Son askyd þe oþer tho.]
Of wat cunne he were. [kynne þat he.]
He seet stille and sihtte sore, [satte. syȝede.]
Litel he spak and þouhte more, [And seyd lytell & thouȝt more]
Wiþ drowpninde chere. [With a wele sade chere.]
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"Sire, wiltou mi cunsail hele, [Sir, wyll þou my counsylle hylle.]
Ȝif hic þe telle of mi wele [Ife I. wylle.]
And also of mi sore? [care.]
A riche mannes sone ich was, [A riche man my fader was,]
Mi fader heyȝtte Placidas, [His name hyght sir P.]
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Þat wide heuede .I.-fare. [God gyffe hym wele to fare.]
Mi fader wes a wel fair kniȝt, [was a douȝty k.]
And mi moder a leuedi briȝt, [lady.]
And hadden riche .I.-won. [And ruddy of alle hew.]
We weren ȝonge children two, [were ȝon sones.]
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Mi litele broþer and ich also, [My ȝonger broder & I also.]
In halle and bour of ston. [boure. stone.]
Mi fader nom ous alle þre, [toke vs.]
Mi dame, mi broþer and me, [moder st. dame.]
Þorou grace of oure driȝte, [Thorow þe grace of god all-myght.]
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And ladd ous to þat fonston [& lede vs to a founte-stone]
And lete ous cristni sone anon [And crystinde vs þer anone,]
In þe name of god almiȝte. [Ne was it not by nyght.]
Seþþen, ich ounderstonde me, [Sethyne I vnderstode.]
We fellen In-to pouerte [felle.]
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And wenten ous out of londe. [wentene. ous fehlt. oute.]
Ouer a water brod and dep [Ouer a water we schuld haue gone,]
We seileden, and mi moder wep [Oure moder þer fro vs was tane,]
And wrong hire honde. [With falsyde borne onne honde.]
Mi moder wes a fair wimmon, [was. woman.]
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In al þat londe nes swich non [Lyke in þis werlde was none]
