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.

                                
                                  Þe laste day of feuerer · ac endleue hundred ȝer ·
                                
                                  & fiue & fifti vr louerd · an erþe aliȝte her · [vr louerd] þat oure lord C.] 
                                
                                  At londone he was ibore · ac an eldore broþer þer was · [broþer] sone C.] 
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                                  Willam þat deide sone · as god ȝef þat cas ·
                                
                                  Mold was after henry · & suþþe þe gode kniȝt ·
                                
                                  King richard þat ibore was · in septembre riȝt · [King] om. C.] 
                                
                                  Geffray þo & suþþe Ion · & elianore last · [last] laste C.] 
                                
                                  Þat to þe king de chastles · was suþþe ispoused vast · [vast] faste C.] 
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                                  & to þe king of sesonie · mold ispoused was · [sesonie] sesoyne C.] 
                                
                                  Þis was lo a uair tour · ac newe hadde god cas · [tour] tem C. newe] probably an error for uewe. god] goude C.] 
                                
                                  Þe king let henri is sone · as god ȝef þe cheaunce ·
                                
                                  Lowis doȝter spousi · þat was king of fraunce · [Lowis doȝter spousi] spousi þe kynges douter lowis C.] 
                                
                                  King henri wondede muche · to abbe men in offis · [wondede] fondede C.] 
                                
                                  Mid him þat of conseil · were god & wis ·
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                                  Ercedekne of kanterbury · sein tomas þo was · [sein tomas] seynt thomas C (& passim).] 
                                
                                  Þe king him made is chaunceler · at is wille it nout nas · [it nout] nout hit C.] 
                                
                                  To him þe king truste mest · ne þer nas non so hey · [truste] tryste C.] 
                                
                                  Þat so muche wuste is priuite · ne þat him were so ney · [wuste] om. C. so] com so C.] 
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                                  So muche he truste on him · þat in is warde he let do · [Hearne page 469] 
                                
                                  Henri is eldoste sone · & is eir al so · [eldoste] eldeste C.]

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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 676
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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