The story of England

De natiuitate Christi.

In his tyme was here [þis lond þan was. (This Ta|liessin invention is not Geoffrey of Monmouth's. It is not in De Lincy's MS. du Roi 27, but is in the 'MSS. du Roi, 73, Cangé; de l'Ars. '171, B.-L.; de Ste. Genev. Y., fol. '10.' Wace, i. 232).] a deuin, His name was called Telesyn; He telde þe Bretons many selcouþ, (Al fond þey trewe he seide wyþ mouþ;) Line 5356 He bad þem "lyue [leue.] wyþouten errour, " ffor now ys born our saueour! " Now ys vs toward ioye & blys, " Þat of a mayde þis [Of a maiden a.] child born ys! Line 5360

Line 5360 " Al mankynde schal he saue! " Ihesus, þat name schal he haue." Þis word þat þilk prophete seyde, Þe Bretons in herte ful wel hit leyde; Line 5364 Many a day þat word þey held; þey fondyt soþ al þat he teld. Þer was no folk in al þe werd Þat trowed so sone, when þey ought herd Line 5368 Prechen ought of Iesu lawe, Ne to þe feyþ so sone gon [wild.] drawe. Þen was þer a þowsand ȝer gon [Lambeth folio 23b:2] Þat Brutes aryued in Albyon, Line 5372 & þerto two hundred ȝer [& tuo hundreth sais it.] [Petyt folio 32b:1] mo Er Kymbelyn to deþ gan go. As longe as he regned her, Wyþ þe Romayns was he dere; Line 5376 Þey asked hym neuere no [þer.] truage, Neyþer in his ȝougþe ne in age. [

neuerþeles at terme & stage.He ȝalde it curtasly & hende.in pes till his lyues ende.

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