The story of England

                                
                                  Þey sette vp sail heye on mast,
                                
                                  Toward þe northe þey seyled fast;
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                                  In Scotlond aryued, [he ryued in Scotland.]  & logged his ost,
                                
                                  & pylede & robbed [robbed & reft.]  at ilka cost.
                                
                                  Til Octauus sone com tydand
                                
                                  Þat Trahern robbed in Scotland.
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                                  Octauus gadered host ay whare,
                                
                                  & hyed hym faste þat he were þare;
                                
                                  Oft he seyde wyþ grete pryde
                                
                                  Þat Trahern schold nought dur abide;
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                                  Bot his ouerwenyng [ouerhope.]  gan faille;
                                
                                  Trahern stod, & bod [stode vnto.]  bataille,
                                
                                  & dide Octauus for to fle;
                                
                                  In to Norweye ouer þe se.
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                                  Octauus þenne fledde for ferd;
                                
                                  He spak vntil þe [kinge] Comperd, [vnto kyng Comperde.] 
                                
                                  ffor help & socour he preyde [socour for.]  ȝerne,
                                
                                  To wynne þe lond of sire Traherne.
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                                  Pryuely he sent to þis lond ageyn, [Lambeth folio 27b:2] 
                                
                                  To þo þat were til hym certeyn,
                                
                                  Þat þey scholde fonde on alle wyse
                                
                                  To sle Traherne wiþ som queyntise.
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                                  Þat tyme spedde Traherne wel ynow; [Rex Tra|hernus.] 
                                
                                  ¶ Ageyn to þe southe Traherne drow,
                                
                                  & dide hym coroune kyng to be,
                                
                                  & regned wiþ solempnete.
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                                  A day to [of.]  [Petyt folio 38a:1]  Londone he scholde out ryde;
                                
                                  His ffomen a-spied wel what tyde;
                                
                                  Enbusched þeym by þat strete
                                
                                  Þer þey hoped þe kyng to mete.
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                                  Sire Traherne of non hym dredde,
                                
                                  Þer-fore no folk wyþ hym ne ledde;

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 221
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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