The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[Peter the Cruel, of Spain.]

Onoble / o. worthy Petro / glorie of Spayne [¶ De Petro Rege Is|pannie] Whom ffortune heeld / so hye in magestee Wel oghten men / thy pitous deeth complayne Out of thy land / thy brother made thee flee Line 3568 And after/ at a seege by subtiltee Thou were bitraysed / and lad vn-to his tente Where as he / with his owene hand slow thee Succedynge / in thy regne and in thy rente Line 3572

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The feeld of snow / with thegle of blak ther-Inne [[Bertrand du Guesclin.]] Caught with the lymerod / coloured as the gleede He brew this cursednesse / and al this synne The wikked nest was werker of this nede Line 3576 Noght Charles Olyuver / that took ay heede Of trouthe and honour / but of Armorike [[Oliver de Mauny of Britanny.]] Genylon Olyuer / corrupt for meede Broghte this worthy kyng in swich a brike Line 3580