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.

                                
                                  Vor among alle þe noble · þat to suiche feste drowe · [noble] noble folc C. drowe] drou C.] 
                                
                                  Of erles & of barons & of oþere heyemen inowe · [& of oþere] of oþer C. inowe] y nou C.] 
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                                  & of noble presauns · þat þer come al so · [presauns] presantes C.] 
                                
                                  Þe wrecche luþer giwes · wende wel to do ·
                                
                                  & a riche presant · ȝarkede wiþ gret prute ·
                                
                                  & sende þis noble kinge · ac hor þonc was lute · [noble kinge] heie kyng C.] 
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                                  Vor þe king was somdel awlated · & to gret despit it nom ·
                                
                                  Þat fram so vnclene þinges · eni mete him com · [him] to hym C.] 
                                
                                  & het it do out of is court · & þe wrecches ssame do ·
                                
                                  Þer was mani a wilde hine · þat prest was þer to · [hine] hyne C.] 
                                
                                  & wende in to þe gywerie · & woundede & to drowe · [in] om. C. drowe] drou C.] 
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                                  & robbede & barnde hous · & manie of hom slowe · [barnde] barnd C. manie] many C. slowe] slow C.] 
                                
                                  Ac sone in þulke sulue ȝer · in to þis kinedom ·
                                
                                  Hunger & deiinge of men · & muche wrechede com · [deiinge] deiȝenge C. wrechede] wrech hede C.] 
                                
                                  Richard þo he was king · he ȝef is broþer Ion ·
                                
                                  Þe erldom of gloucestre · & let him spousy anon ·
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                                  Isabel þat was eir · & grete londes þer to ·
                                
                                  Ȝef him here in engelond · & biȝonde se al so · [se] þe se C.] 
                                
                                  Þer was þo in þe holi lond · a strong bataile ido · [bataile] batail C.] 
                                
                                  Bi tuene þe luþer saladim · & cristine men al so ·
                                
                                  A sein leonardes eue · in þe ȝer of grace ywis · [sein] seynt C.] 
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                                  Endleue hundred & ninty · ydo was al þis · [ninty] nynti ȝer 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 691
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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