The story of England

                                
                                  How þey schuld wyrke, & on what wyse,
                                
                                  Ageyn þe kyng in bataille to rise.
                                
                                  Tydynges ronne, þat ouer al [Renoun ran þat ouer.]  [Petyt folio 30b:1]  reches;
                                
                                  Ilk man til oþer made þer [to ilk a man mad þei.]  speches,
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                                  Til [speche.]  men tolde þe kyng tydant,
                                
                                  Þat Romayns were aryue on land.
                                
                                  Þe kyng þeron conseilled sone;
                                
                                  On hem to renne, mad hym bone;
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                                  & in herte had gret meruaille
                                
                                  Þat þey so so sone broughte hym [þei rose so sone eft in.]  bataille.—
                                
                                  He wende of þeym haue hed no warde,
                                
                                  Bot hym fel þer a chek ful harde; [chek hasarde (far better).] —
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                                  & al so sone as he myght,
                                
                                  Toward Douere his host he dight.
                                
                                  To Cesar was hit told in hast
                                
                                  Þat þe kyng was comande fast:
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                                  Cesar conseilled [conseild.]  wiþ Androche,
                                
                                  Þat he wolde come out [he wald out.]  of þe cite,
                                
                                  And turne a sidenhand o [turne sidenen in a.]  valeye, [Lambeth folio 22a:2] 
                                
                                  &, [all.]  armed, biden hem in þe weye;
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                                  & arraied þem in renges [& renge þam redy in ordire.]  ryght,
                                
                                  & assigned whiche bataille first schold [whilk aschelle suld formast.]  fight.
                                
                                  Whan Cesar had arrayed al [set all.]  his host,
                                
                                  O [A.]  þyng he comaunded most:
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                                  " Þat non scholde, for wele ne wo,
                                
                                  " On fro oþer, of renge go;
                                
                                  " Ne non prese to styrte [ne stirte.]  byfore,
                                
                                  " Ne holde byhynde in coward score;
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                                  " Bot passe forþ sadlyk, [renge þam sadly]  syde by syde,

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 176
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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