The story of England

                                
                                  Pantalius spak ful curteysly.
                                
                                  " We ar men of pes, sekyng auowery,
                                
                                  " Wey-farende men þat wolde haue gryþ;
                                
                                  " We aske þe leue to speke þe wyþ."
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                                  Þe kyng ne wolde no pes [Pes wild nouht þe kyng.]  breke,
                                
                                  Wyþ loue he gaf hem leue to speke.
                                
                                  He saide, " We ar men of diuerse lynage,
                                
                                  " Exiled of Spayne, comen by þys ryuage,
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                                  " ȝyf þat we any stede fond,
                                
                                  " On to reste, a certeyn lond.
                                
                                  " ffor oþer half ȝer [a ȝere & half. An et demie, Wace i. 159, l. 3337.]  þus haue we went;
                                
                                  " Hunger, þurst, cold, haþ vs schent;
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                                  " Many a cost haue we þorow sought;
                                
                                  " Lond on to lende, ne fond we nought;
                                
                                  " & we ar alle onoyed þer fore,
                                
                                  " ffor oure trauaille & grete lore.
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                                  " Bot, lord, ȝyf hit were ȝour wylle,
                                
                                  " Suffre vs to reste on þy londe stille!
                                
                                  " Seruise þer fore we wole þe do;
                                
                                  " Þy men bycome, ȝyf þou wilt so."
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                                  Bot Gorgoynt wolde þem nought graunt
                                
                                  Of his to haue a remenaunt;
                                
                                  Nought for þy he gaf hem conseil
                                
                                  Toward Irlond to sette þer sayl;
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                                  & of his schipes he lente þem tweye,
                                
                                  To techen hem þe ryghte weye.—
                                
                                  ¶ Irlond þat tyme was bygged no þynge
                                
                                  Wyþ hous [londes.]  [Petyt folio 22b:2]  ne toun, ne man wonynge.—
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                                  So longe þey sailled, þe se þorow ronne,
                                
                                  Þat algate to Irlond þey wonne;
                                
                                  Þey stryken sayl, & anker cast,
                                
                                  Vp to lande þey ȝede ryght fast;
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                                  Al þey founde wast [all fond þei wildernes.]  & wylde.

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 129
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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