" Vpon þe Bretons, spede how [if.] y may;
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" Bot ȝif y may conquere Cassibolan,
" Y preise nought elles al þat y er wan;
" Al my conqueste preise y nought,
" Bot þe Bretons to trewe be brought."
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¶ De subuersione nauigii Cesaris in Tamysia.
Whan hit was dight, al his flet,
Wyþ god folk & vitailles set,
Þe schipes seyled day & nyght
Til þey come in to Temese right. [
þei sette vp saile þe schippes kemseþe wynde þam drofe in to temse.] Line 4604 Þus þey wend, þat atte firste tyde Þer nauye to Londone holy schold [suld.] ryde; Alle at ones þe scholde [suld.] vp saille, & to þe Bretons gyue bataille. Line 4608 Þe Bretons wist hit wel ynow, Bot of þer sleigþe lystneþ now; [bot what þei did listen how.] Longe pyles [peeles. [peus ferrés, Wace, 4437.]] & grete dide þey make; ffaste yn Temese dide þey hem stake, Line 4612 Euerylkon wyþ iren schod; [Lambeth folio 20b:1] Ageyn þe schipes stod ilkon [ilk an.] [Petyt folio 28a:1] od, fful wel set, & sykerly; Þer myght non wel ascape [scape.] forby. Line 4616
¶ De bello inter Cesarem & Brutones in Tamysia.
¶ Right atte fulle se [at a folle flowe.] of flod
Com alle six hundred schipes god;
Sykerly þey wend haue nomen,
& into Londone at ones comen.
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