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.

                                
                                  Þo hij to gadere com · þat bataile was wel touȝt [Þo] When βγ; Tho þat δ. to gadere] to gidre βγ. come] were come δ. wel] riȝt βγ; ful δ.] 
                                
                                  Mani was þat god bodi · þat was þer ybrout to nouȝt [þat was . . . nouȝt] þat to grounde þo was brought δ. ybrout] brouȝt βγ.] 
                                
                                  Al dai hij foute faste · þat was fer ouer non [þat was fer] til hit was fer βγ; þat ferre it was δ. non] þe noone βγ.] 
                                
                                  Þo Morbidus þe bolde · þan duc ouercom [Þo] Than βγ. þan] þat βγ.] 
                                
                                  Þo þe duc gan him faste fleo · Morbidus him kepte [Þo þe duc] Than þe Duke βγ; That he δ. him] om. δ. kepte] mette βγ.] 
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                                  Þane duc and al his ost · he slou wiþ oute lette [Þane] That βγ; Þat the δ. wiþ oute] with outen βγ.] 
                                
                                  Þe kinges owene honde a day · seue hundred slou [seue] seuen βγ.] 
                                
                                  And lette makiȝe o gret dich · & inne ham drou [lette makiȝe] lete make βγ. o] a βγ. inne ham] hem Inne βγ; þerynne hem δ. drou] þrouȝ βγδ.] 
                                
                                  Alle wiþoute faile · þo hij aslawe were [faile] eny fayle δ. þo] when βγ. aslawe] slayn βγ; slawe δ.] 
                                
                                  Hi drowe into þulke dich · þat none ileued nere [drowe] þrouȝ βγ; drof δ. þulke] ilke βγ; þilk δ.] 
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                                  Morbidus huld þis lond · þer after one stounde [huld] helde βγδ.] 
                                
                                  Freliche wel on griþ · and his men y sounde [on griþ] in griþe βγδ. and] and alle δ. ysounde] in sounde βγ; sounde δ.] 
                                
                                  So þat com tiþinge · Selliche to þis londe [com] þer come βγδ. tiþinge] tiþinges βγδ. Selliche] stilliche βγ; hastely δ.] 
                                
                                  Þat o dur, [MS. duc.]  was come vp of þe see · framward yrlonde [þat o dur] That o Deuel βγ; A Dragoñ δ. come] comen δ.] 
                                
                                  Hit resede to þe folc · & slou ham in o stunde [Hit resede] And resed δ. o] a βγ.] 
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                                  On hundred on a day · hit fulde to þe gronde [On hundred] An hundrid βγ; By an hundred δ. hit fulde] hit felde βγ; he felled δ.]

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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 802
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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