Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The story of England

" & þat þe kyng þe so destruyed; [of þe destroied.] " ffor syn he haþ boren hym in to proud wyse [for he has born proude þerfore.] " Til his barons, & to alle hyse, [to his barons out of score.] 4892 " And syþen hadde he neuere [siþen with me ne had he.] wille [Lambeth folio 21b:2] " In pes me suffre a day be stille; " My lond to waste he goþ [wendes.] aboute, " My frendes to slo, & dryue þem oute; 4896 " My self he wolde [wald.] exile & chace, " & slo, als hit ys his manace; " My God y take witnesse vnto, " Y serued neuere he scholde so do! 4900 " My neuew to deþ he wolde haue [wild haf.] demed; " ffor y wyþstodit, he haþ [for þat encheson am I now.] me flemed, " & for y wolde [wald.] nought do his wylle, " To suffre hym myn neuew spille. 4904 " Y schal þe telle how hit bygan " Bytwixt me & Cassibolan: " ffor [þe] [þe.] honur & for þe pris " Þat we hadde ouer-come þe twys, 4908 " Þe kyng dide þe folk somoun " Þorow-out þe lond of ilka toun. [From the Petyt MS., lf. 30 [Lambeth folio 30a:1] which gives a different version of the first part of Androcheus's letter, up to line 4942 here. It follows the Wace MS. du Roi 73, Cangé, to l. 4915, and then the MS. du Roi 27, that De Lincy printed; while Robert of Brunne repeats the account given on page 167, from l. 4753 to l. 4776 above.] [" Þat alle of valow, moste & leste, " Suld com to London to his feste, 4912 " Grace till our God [to] ȝelde " With sacrifise, as lawe wilde. " Graces ȝolden with sacrifise, " Whan we had don our seruise, 4916
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The story of England
Author
Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
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Page 172
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London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]
1887.
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Great Britain -- History

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