The story of England

                                
                                  Mykel he loued to robbe & reue,
                                
                                  Scotland to waste wold he nought leue.
                                
                                  Als he wente [ȝed.]  & robbede faste,
                                
                                  Maryus mette hym atte laste;
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                                  Marius had god folk ynow,
                                
                                  & Peyt Rodryk smertly he slow.
                                
                                  ffor þat Maryus slow þe Peyht,
                                
                                  He dide þer set a ston þorow sleight,
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                                  ffor to schewe his prowesse,
                                
                                  & forto make þe menyng fresse;
                                
                                  ffor in þe ston he dide be wryte,
                                
                                  Whar-þorow euery [& for þat writyng.]  man may wyte;
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                                  Hit wytnesseþ þe [& testemons þat.]  auenture,
                                
                                  & telles þe disconfiture,
                                
                                  How Marius slow þe Peyt Rodrik;
                                
                                  Þe ston was set for þat ferlyk:
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                                  Þo men þat weren, & ȝit [þat þer woned &.]  are,
                                
                                  Þey calle þat ston ȝit 'Westmare;'
                                
                                  Þat contre folk seyen [þe men of þat cuntre say.]  ilkon
                                
                                  Þat te countre [þat it.]  is cald after þe ston;
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                                  ¶ ffor þe ston Westmare, WESTMORLAND;
                                
                                  Þus in þe Latyn [Geoffrey of Monmouth, book iv. chap. xvii.]  writen y fand.
                                
                                  When þat Rodrik þe Peiht was ded,
                                
                                  Men gaf þe kyng Marius to red,
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                                  ' To take þe Peihtes more & lesse,
                                
                                  ' Deliuere hem a party of Catenesse
                                
                                  ' To tyle & haue in heritage,
                                
                                  ' ffor hit was bot wast & sauage.'
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                                  Þey herborwed [þe herberd.]  þem þer euery where,
                                
                                  In stedes ese, þat best were.
                                
                                  Wymen of Bretayne wolde þey haue,
                                
                                  Bot þe Bretons vouched nought [non.]  saue;

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 200
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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