Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The story of England

" Here ys þe wombe ȝe boþe ynne ware! " Þys body ȝow bar wiþ wo & kare! 3204 " Y am sche þat for ȝow kneled! " Now þenk o þat sorwe þat y þenne feled! " Ley now [Schew.] [Petyt folio 20a:1] no sorewe me more byforn, " ffor hym þat let ȝow of me be born! 3208 " Ley doun þyn armes, me forto saue! " Wylle nought þat y for þe deþ [dede.] haue! " Þou mysdost, þat þou now fandes [fondes.] " To brynge straungers of outlandes [aliens of vnkouth londes.] 3212 " Vs forto robben & to [vs forto.] slo! " Rest þe! let þy mod ouer go! [þin owen demeyns to wirke wo.] " Þou hast namo breþere in wold; " Þy fader ys ded, [dede is þi fadere.] þy moder ys old; 3216 " Suffre, for no þyng in lyue, " Þy pore frendes a-way to dryue! " Þou scholdest vs presente & gyue, " & helpe vs alle in pes to lyue; 3220 " Bot now þou comest to reue vs our [socour], [socoure.] " Þat scholdest ben oure mayntenour. " Lef folye! & y vndertake, [do þis foly now to slake.] " ȝyf þou on hym wilt pleynte make, 3224 " And y fynde he haue þe gylt, [Lambeth folio 14b:1] " He schal amenden right als þou wilt; " Bot ȝyf þou seist he dide þe fle, " I seye nay; witnesse on þe! [þe wrong is in þe.] 3228 " ffyrst þou bygonne al yn wrong; " So al þe folye ys on þe longe, " Þe firste folye & yuele [in alle.] dedes. " When þou intil Norwey ȝedes, 3232
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Title
The story of England
Author
Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
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Page 114
Publication
London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]
1887.
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Great Britain -- History

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