The story of England

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Title

Author

Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.

Publication

London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]

1887.

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Great Britain -- History

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"The story of England." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHB1379.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 20, 2025.

Pages

¶ De subuersione nauigii Cesaris in Tamysia.

                  
                    Whan hit was dight, al his flet,
                  
                    Wyþ god folk & vitailles set,
                  
                    Þe schipes seyled day & nyght
                  
                    Til þey come in to Temese right. [þei sette vp saile þe schippes kemseþe wynde þam drofe in to temse.] 
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                    Þus þey wend, þat atte firste tyde
                  
                    Þer nauye to Londone holy schold [suld.]  ryde;
                  
                    Alle at ones þe scholde [suld.]  vp saille,
                  
                    & to þe Bretons gyue bataille.
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                    Þe Bretons wist hit wel ynow,
                  
                    Bot of þer sleigþe lystneþ now; [bot what þei did listen how.] 
                  
                    Longe pyles [peeles. [peus ferrés, Wace, 4437.]]  & grete dide þey make;
                  
                    ffaste yn Temese dide þey hem stake,
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                    Euerylkon wyþ iren schod; [Lambeth folio 20b:1] 
                  
                    Ageyn þe schipes stod ilkon [ilk an.]  [Petyt folio 28a:1]  od,
                  
                    fful wel set, & sykerly;
                  
                    Þer myght non wel ascape [scape.]  forby.
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