Ayol was þe beste
And fokenild þe werste
Hit was in one someres day
Also ich nou tellen may
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Þat morye þe gode kinge [morye] moye MS.]
Rod on his pleyhinge
Bi þe se syde
Þer he was woned to ryde
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With him riden bote tvo
Al to fewe ware þo
He fond bi þe stronde [stronde] r above line MS.]
Ariued on his londe
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Schipes ·xv·
Of sarazines kene
He acsede wat he sowte
Oþer to londe broucte
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A peynym it yherde
And sone answerede
Þi lond folc we wilen slon
And al þat god leuet on
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And þe we solen sone anon
Sald þou neuere henne gon
Þe king licte adoun of his stede
For þo he hauede nede
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And hise gode knictes ·ii·
But ywis hem was ful wo
Swerdes þe gonne gripe
And to gydere smyte
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He fouten an onder selde
Some of hem he felde
He weren al to fewe
Ayen so fele srewe
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Sone micten alle þe [þe] þ with an erasure of one letter MS.]
Bringen þre deye [folio 220a:1]
Þe paynimes comen to londe
And nomen hyt al to honde
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Cherches he gonnen felle
And folc he gonne quelle
Þer ne micte libbe
Þe fremde ne þe sibbe
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Bote he here ley forsoken
And to here token
