¶ Out of londe þan wente he
To seche Gi is sone þe fre,
Þat marchauns stele away.
To þerl of Winchester y was sent:
Þar ich was loked, veraiment,
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Boþe niȝtes and day.
Whan ich was woxe of meche pris,
Douȝti, and swiþe strong, y-wis,
Me felawes gonne say
Þat y nas of dedes nouȝt,
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For þat y me fader [ne] souȝt
In vnkouþe contray.
¶ To Walingforde y [he MS.] gan gon,
Me fader is armes þer y fond anon,
His hauberk and is stede,
His scheld, and is helm briȝt,
And is swerd gode and liȝt,
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Þat he was woned to lede.
Me selue y dobbed me kniȝt þare:
Man ne tolde ich it neuer are,
Also god me spede.
Out of þat londe ich wente þo
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To seche me fader [in] wer & wo
In mani an vnkouþ þede.
¶ Of werre ne herde y neuer speke,
Þat y ne com þer me fader to seke:
Þus to þis lord y cam.
Þe duk of Marce haþ strued him,
Boute þis castel is gode engyn.
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Þe lord þat y wiþ am
Neȝ he hadde is lond for-lore
(Swiþe wo was him þar-fore),
And mani a douȝti [adouȝti MS.] man.
Boute þretti hors he nadde þo:
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Now he haþ þre hondred & mo
Þat ich in bataile wan.'
