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 morwe after seinte marie day · in leinte wiþ a quarel ·
                                  Line 10,090 
                                
                                  Issote he was þat he ne et · neuereft a god mel · [et] eet C. god] goude C.] 
                                
                                  Þe tuelfte day he deide · of aueril þe sixte day · [tuelfte] twelfþe C.] 
                                
                                  Bi is fader he was ibured · as is fader lay · [as] þer C.] 
                                
                                  Riȝt at is fader uet · in þe nonnerye ·
                                
                                  Of fount ebraud richeliche · þat is in normandie · [fount ebraud] foundebraud C.] 
                                  Line 10,095 
                                
                                  Endleue hundred ȝer of grace · & ninti & nyene · [grace] om. C.] 
                                
                                  Þus þe noble king richard · broȝte is lif to fine ·
                                
                                  I ON king richardes broþer · after is broþer deþe ·
                                
                                  Ne abod noȝt wel longe · seue wouke vnneþe · [wouke] woke C.] 
                                
                                  Ar he let him crouni king · an holi þorsday iwis · [Hearne page 492] 
                                
                                  At westmunstre in þe abbeye · as þe riȝte crouninge is · [westmunstre] westmyster C.] 
                                  Line 10,101 
                                
                                  Of þe erchebissop of kanterbury · hubert þat was þo ·
                                
                                  Þer after deide sein hue · an half ȝer & nammo · [an half ȝer] half a ȝer C.] 
                                
                                  Þat was bissop of lincolne · & þer after þe werste ȝer · [&] om. C. werste] furste C.] 
                                
                                  Þe ordre bigan of frere prechors · þat nas neuere er ·
                                
                                  Sein dominic it bigan þo · in þe ȝer of grace ywis · [Sein dominic] for seynt domenyk C.] 
                                
                                  A þousend & tuo hundred ȝer · vor nammore it nis ·
                                  Line 10,107 
                                
                                  Þulke ȝer þe king him let · vor sibrede to dele ·
                                
                                  Fram is wif þe contesse · of gloucetere ysabele · [gloucetere] gloucestre C.] 
                                
                                  & spousede anoþer wif · Isabele het ich wene · [anoþer] an ouþer C.] 
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                                  An grete erles doȝter · & let hire crouni quene ·
                                
                                  Þe ȝonge erl of brutaine · arþure hadde riȝte ·
                                
                                  To be king of engelond · þeruore mid al is miȝte · [folio 144a]

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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 699
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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