The metrical chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Published by the authority of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the master of the rolls.

                                
                                  He drou out is oþer sone · as stalwarde kniȝt inou · [He . . . . sone] his oþer sone he drou out C. stalwarde] noble C.] 
                                
                                  Moni was þe gode body · þat he þerwiþ slou · [þe] þat BC.] 
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                                  Atte laste it barst a tuo · as it nede moste ywis · [barst] berst B.] 
                                
                                  Sire willam de keines · þo he sey þis · [sey] isei C.] 
                                
                                  He sturte to & hente him · bi þe suere anon · [to] om. C. suere] suerde B.]  [folio 135a] 
                                
                                  Loude he gan to grede · comeþ uorþ echon ·
                                
                                  Vor þe king ichabbe anhonde · ich im holde vaste ·
                                
                                  Þe folc com þikce abouten him · & nom him atte laste · [Þe folc] Þat folc B; hi C. þikce] om. B; þo þycke y nou C. abouten] about B. nom] nome B.] 
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                                  & sire baldewine al so · þat is conseiler was þere · [Hearne page 461] 
                                
                                  & sire richard le fiz ourz · þat gode kniȝtes were · [fiz ourz] fytours B; fis ours C.] 
                                
                                  & alle þe oþere afterward · hii slowe oþer nome · [þe oþere] oþer B.] 
                                
                                  In to lincolne mid þe king · atte laste hii come · [laste] om. C.] 
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                                  Þo þis bataile was ido · & hii were al out of howe · [were] om. C.] 
                                
                                  Hii sende þe king · mid gode warde · to þe tour of bristowe · [Hii] he C.] 
                                
                                  Þere as þe emperesse was · þat was is meste fo ·
                                
                                  Þere hii wuste him uaste inou · & somdel in wo ·
                                
                                  Þe emperesse huld ire þo · boþe king & quene · [huld] hulde hulde (sic) C.] 
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                                  & wende aboute in þe lond · & ire poer made isene · [in] þoru B. ire poer made] made hure power C.] 
                                
                                  Of þe bissop of winchestre · & oþer bissopes al so ·
                                
                                  As prince heo was vnderuonge · & of þe londreis þer to · [heo] he C (& passim).]

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Title: The metrical chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Published by the authority of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the master of the rolls.
Author: Robert, of Gloucester, fl. 1260-1300.
Canvas: Page 669
Publication: London,: Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode,; 1887.
Subject terms: English language -- Dialects -- England; English language; Great Britain -- History

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