The metrical chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Published by the authority of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the master of the rolls.

                                
                                  Sixtimen & tene & woundede monyon · [monyon] maniȝe on α.]  [folio 45b] 
                                
                                  & ȝute he of scapede aliue · uor hom echon · [ȝute] ȝet B; ȝut α; ȝit βγ; ȝyt δ. he] om. δ. of scapede] ascapede α; ascaped βγδ. echon] euer ech on B; euerichon α; euerechone β; euerychone γδ.] 
                                
                                  Þat luþer folc þat slou þus · þat folc mid tricherie · [tormentum regis.]  [Þat] And þe B; Þis α; Thise βγ; These δ. luþer] luthern γ. slou] slowe Bαγ. þat folc . . . tricherie] wt her fals trechorye δ.] 
                                
                                  Þun king hii bounde uaste ynou · þat reulich he gan crie · [Þun] Þo B; Þane α; That βγ. ynou] om. αβγδ. reulich] rewliche B; reuliche αβ; reuthfullich δ. he gan] biganne γ. crie] to crye γ.] 
                                
                                  & defoulede him mid bendes · vorte he suor is oþ · [capcio ciuitatis.]  [bendes] boundes βγ; bondes δ. vorte] for to B; vor to α; vn to βγ.] 
                                
                                  Al hor wille euer eft to do · nere him no so loþ · [eft] aftir β; om. γ. nere him no so] nere hym ner so B; were him not so δ; nere him no α; nere hit him neuer so βγ.] 
                                
                                  Þo wende vorþ þis luþer folc · & nome londone · [Þo wende] Thanne went γ. &] and anone δ. nome londone] londone nome anon α; londoñ toke anone βγ.] 
                                
                                  & Euerwik · & Lincolne · al þoru þis traysone · [al þoru . . . traysone] mid treson þat wa[s] idon α; with tresoñ þat was ydone βγ. traysone] treson B.]  [Hearne page 127] 
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                                  & suþþe winchestre bisouþe · & oþer grete tounes mo · [suþþe] om. αβγδ. oþer] om. αβγδ.] 
                                
                                  & robbede as hii wende · & slowe & dude muche wo · [as] euer as B. & slowe] slowe α; slouȝ δ. dude] dede βγ; ded δ. muche] gret Bαβγ; grete δ.] 
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                                  Þis were lo vre faderes · of wan we beþ suþþe ycome · [þis] þese B; þeos α; Thus δ. were lo] were αβγ; loo were δ. wan] wam B; whā α; whom β; whoom γ. suþþe] of B; om. αβγδ.] 
                                
                                  Þat wiþ such trayson · abbeþ · þis lond þus ynome · [trayson] om. βγ. abbeþ] habbeþ þus α; haueþe þus βγ. þus] to ham α; to hem βγδ. inome] nome δ.] 
                                
                                  Vortiger vre feble king · þat lute was worþ þo · [lute] litill γ. was worþ] worthe was δ.] 
                                
                                  As he it adde of serued · ynou he adde of wo · [it] om. αβγ. of serued] of serued wel Bαβγ; deserued wel δ. ynou he adde] to lutel hadde B.]

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Title: The metrical chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Published by the authority of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the master of the rolls.
Author: Robert, of Gloucester, fl. 1260-1300.
Canvas: Page 192
Publication: London,: Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode,; 1887.
Subject terms: English language -- Dialects -- England; English language; Great Britain -- History

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