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.

Suþþe seinte freþeswiþe was · me nuste king non · [freþeswiþe] freþewiþe C.] Þat wiþinne þe ȝates of oxenford · dorste ride ne gon · [dorste] durste C.] Line 11,315 Þe king was among þe freres · & hii manion · Radde him vor to wenden in · & nameliche frer Ion · [wenden] wende C.] Of balsam & þat he miȝte · þoru godes grace hii sede · In wiþ god deuocion · go wiþoute drede · Þe king hadde þer to g[o]de wille · þoru frerene rede · [hadde þer to gode] hadde al so goude C. frerene] freren C.] Line 11,320 & hii massen & orisons · uaste uor him bede · So þat vastinde a day · a uote he dude þis dede · [vastinde] fastyng C.] & in eiþer half to sikeri him · freres him gonne lede · [him gonne] gonne hym C.]

· Henricus · [folio 159b]

& he wende to seinte freþeswiþe · as no king ne com er · [freþeswiþe] freþewyþe C.] Suþþe seinte friþeswiþe was · vale hundred ȝer · [vale] fele C.] Line 11,325 & wel vaire is offringe · to þe heye-weued ber · [ber] he ber C.] & suþþe ofte wan he þuder com · he offrede þer · [wan] whanne C.] So he bileuede in oxenford · & is conseil nom · Vort is sone & is folc · mid poer to him com · Þo is poer ȝare was · wiþinne þe passion · Line 11,330 Wiþ is ost he wende uorþ · & arerde is dragon · Is ost was gret & suiþe long · he wende to norþ|hamtone · & wiþ strengþe nom þe toun · & somdel wiþ treson · [þe toun] þane toun C.]
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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.
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Robert, of Gloucester, fl. 1260-1300.
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London,: Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode,
1887.
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English language -- Dialects -- England
English language
Great Britain -- History

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