" Bot norþern [sothron.] der & souþern [northren.] werre,
" Non dredeþ, oþer þey come nought nerre;
" Bot norþerne [werre] [northern were.] þat ys þe doute,
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" & southern [souhren.] der þe norþ dos loute."
In Brennes tyme, als ȝe may here, [Lambeth folio 12b:2]
Hit ferde in þys ilke manere;
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Abouten Brenne were lozengeours,
Bakbiteres & werreours:
On was þer þat ful euele spak
To whette Brenne to reyse contak; [
One þer was þat wikly spakebituex þe breþer raised contake.] Line 2828 Þus he spak al wiþ tresoun:— Y gyue swyche [gyf suylk.] [Petyt folio 17b:2] Crystes malisoun!—
¶ Respice verba detractorys.
" We haue merueille in oure þought—
" Bot non to þe dar sey ryght nought—
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" Þat of so gret an heritage,
" Þat long & brod ys in passage,
" Þat þy fader hadde in his baillye,
" & hast þerof so litel partie!
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" And ȝit, als litel as þow has,
" Þou schalt [sall.] hym serue at alle cas!
" Wiltow holde longe [will þou hald.] þat wyse,
" To serue þy broþer in alle seruise?
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" Artow þral or bastard,
" Or more vyl or more coward, [cuhard.]
" Þat þou schalt [sall.] do hym þer-fore homage,
" & art of þe same parage?
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" Þe ffader hym gat, he gat þe,
" & of o moder born ar [er.] ȝe.
