The story of England

                                
                                  Þat schopen hym yuel [compassid foly.]  & outrage,
                                
                                  Þey diden [mad.]  hym fewte & homage,
                                
                                  At his conseil for to lende,
                                
                                  Ageyn þe Bretons ȝyf he wold wende.
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                                  Whan sire Cesar, [Iulius.]  [Petyt folio 28a:1]  lord & sire,
                                
                                  Had pesed & swaged al þer ire,
                                
                                  He conseilled hym wyþ an engynour,
                                
                                  & dide hym make a merueyllous tour
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                                  In Boloygne: "Ordre" ys þe name.
                                
                                  So wrought ys non bot þat same;
                                
                                  By-neþen hit is in strange compas;
                                
                                  Brod & þykke þe gynnynge was,
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                                  & euere hit nareweþ [nerewes.]  rysande on heyght,
                                
                                  & semeþ griller [grelere (rougher, sharper).]  & more streight.
                                
                                  Selcouþe stages ar þer-ynne,
                                
                                  Wyndowes cast, coruen wiþ gynne.
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                                  His tresor he leyde þer inne to lok,
                                
                                  Onlyke þer al þat he toke;
                                
                                  & hym self lay in þe tour,
                                
                                  When he dred hym of [for [de traïson, Wace].]  his tresour.
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                                  Two ȝer he dwelled þer in ffraunce,
                                
                                  & dight hit for werre in alle [dighted it for were o.]  chaunce;
                                
                                  He sente to baillifs to gadere hym [his.]  fees,
                                
                                  & reisede his truwage of his citees.
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                                  Whan al was gadered on ylk party,
                                
                                  In Ordre þey leide hit in tresory.
                                
                                  In two ȝer he dide hym dight,
                                
                                  & made hym to Brutayne right, [vppon þe bretons eftsons to fight.] 
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                                  & dide hym dighte a fflute on flode,
                                
                                  Sex hundred gret schipes & gode, [schipes grete & gode.] 
                                
                                  & seide, "ȝit wyly make [will mak.]  assay

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 160
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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