A-noþer tyme, lose, þey myȝt hym fynde;
Só fast, þey neuer [neuer þey.] hym bonde,
Þat lose a-noþer tyme þey hym fonde.
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Þys boundë knyȝt hyght Iumna,
And had a broþer þat hyȝt Tumna;
þys Tumna was prest relygyous,
For he was abbot of an house;
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So long he leued yn þat estre [toune [Oxf. gloss 'a toune.'] ]
Þat for hys name he hyȝt Tuncestre;
Þat tounne, as y vndyrstande,
hyt was yn Northhumber-lande.
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þys abbot herd tydyng certeyn [folio 70b]
Þat Iumna was yn batayle slayn;
He come to Trent, þys abbot Tumna,
And fonde a body ryȝt lyke Iumna;
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Onóurablye he dyd hyt graue
Yn hys cherche, þere he wulde hyt haue,
And song þarforë, day and ouþer,
For he went he [wende hyt (but he is used for the neuter, see ll. 10586, 10786, &c.).] had be hys broþer.
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Þogh þat Tumna had chose wrong,
hys broþer had þe godenesse of hys song;
For God alle wote, and wyst hyt þere
For whom he madë hys preyere;
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how as euer men, þys knyȝt at eue bonde,
Þe bondes, on þe morne, vndo þey fonde;
Men myȝt neuer hym yn bondes so feste
Þat þey þat tyme ne gunne al to-braste. [breste.]
Þo men þat had þys man yn holde,
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Þys wundyr to þe erle þey tolde;
Þe erle had þer-of gretë wundyr
Þat hys bondes [bondes O, landes H.] were so a sunder,
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He seyd 'hym self wulde with hym speke,
To wytë why hys bondes dyd breke.'
Before þe erlë was he fette,
And þe erle, ful feyre he grette,
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"Sey me now," he seyd, "bele amye,
