Bot Cassibolan was ful ioyous
Þat þis werre was ended þus.
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ffyftene [ȝer] after he regned in pes,
Bot no child ne lefte at his deses;
Þerfore þe corounede sire Tenmace;
To gouerne þe reome he hadde grace.
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Cassibolan was ded, as was pite,
& buryed at ȝork, þe gode cite.
Wiþ Iulyus went forþ sire Androche,
& his broþer reioisede þe regalte.
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After cam Kymbely, Tenmace sone,
Þat had ful gret grace of Rome;
Of alle his truage þey relesed hym þer,
While he scholde regne & lyuen her,
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So þat he neuere ne payed non [Wace and Geoffrey say that Kimbalius did pay it.]
To Rome ne to Octouyon.
He meyntend euere his lond in pes,
& leftyt his sones after his deces.
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De natiuitate Christi.
In his tyme was here [þis lond þan was. (This Ta|liessin invention is not Geoffrey of Monmouth's. It is not in De Lincy's MS. du Roi 27, but is in the 'MSS. du Roi, 73, Cangé; de l'Ars. '171, B.-L.; de Ste. Genev. Y., fol. '10.' Wace, i. 232).] a deuin,
His name was called Telesyn;
He telde þe Bretons many selcouþ,
(Al fond þey trewe he seide wyþ mouþ;)
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He bad þem "lyue [leue.] wyþouten errour,
" ffor now ys born our saueour!
" Now ys vs toward ioye & blys,
" Þat of a mayde þis [Of a maiden a.] child born ys!
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