Þey spredde hem aboute in ilkan ylde;
Sone þey maden eryed [mad ardawe.] feld,
Þey logged hem, & tymber [timbred.] teld;
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Þer folk wax faste, & fostred more,
& tyled þe lond aboute ay whore.
¶ Pantalyus primus Rex Hibernie. [Lambeth folio 16b:1]
Pantalius, þey maden hym kyng;
In Irlond þen made he [ireland mad he.] first wonyng.
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When Gurgoynt had þem þider ysent,
Hom vntil his lond he went;
Þritty ȝer in þys lyf gan lende;
At Kerlyoun he made hys ende.
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¶ Gwyntelyn Rex, cuius vxor Marciena Sapiens fuit.
Whan Gurgoynt hadde don his fyn,
Regned [after him com.] his sone Gwyntelyn;
A god man was for þe maystrie,
& his wyf highte dame Marcye.
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Dame Marcye was mikel of [in.] pris;
Of landes lawe scheo was ful wys;
Scheo studyed faste to make þe lawe.
ffor hure þey caldyt by þat dawe,
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In Bretons tyme, als y wene,
Þey calde þat lawe Marcyene.
ffro kyng to kyng þat lawe men wrot,
& Englysche kynges ȝit hit wot;
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Marchenlage, þe Englisch hit calde;
In eyghte [auht.] [Petyt folio 23a:1] schires þat lawe ȝit men halde,
