On þeyr right hand toward Peyto,
Þe wynd to þat half bar hem to [bare þam so.] ;
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Þore þe se receiues Leyre,
Alle þe fflote com wyþ gret eyre.—
Leyre rennes þorow many contre,
And euere [þer.] he metes wiþ þe se.—
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Boþe þer fflute gon þer dwelle [þer flotes boþe þer gan duelle.]
Seuen daye, fullyke [days fully.] to telle.
Out of þe schipes þey wente grete route,
& spredde þe contre alle aboute.
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Goffar was kyng of Peyters; [perters.]
He sente knyghtes & squiers
To waite [witt.] who made on hym pres,
& wheþer þey soughte werre oþer [or.] pees:
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Numbert he highte, þat bar message,
ffor he knew diuerse langage.
Corineus was go for [was gone.] to chace,
Venison to take of grace;
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Wyþ hym were two hundred [trois cens. Wace, l. 812.] men
To serche aboute in feld & fen.
Wyþ Numbert mette Coryneus,
& Numbert spak til hym right þus:
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" By whas [whos.] leue & whas [whos.] [Petyt folio 10a:1] warant
" Are ȝe here alle chasand? [chasant.]
" & by whas conseil are ȝe [& be whos rede ere.] here
" ffor to destruye þe kynges dere?
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" He[re] ne scholde ȝe make [suld ȝe mak no.] chace
" Bot þorow me or þe kyinges grace;
" & þe kyng forbed ilkon
" þat noman scholde take her non. [perto.]
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