The story of England

                                
                                  Whan he herde þe lawe of Crist,
                                
                                  How in his name [men] [in his men.]  were baptist,
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                                  Of his miracles men spake ryf,
                                
                                  & of þapostles holy lyf,
                                
                                  & als how God for þeym wrought
                                
                                  Þat to Cristendam wer brought,
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                                  He sent þe Pope Eluthere, [Papa Euleutherius. (In a later hand.)] 
                                
                                  Bysoughte hym as his fader dere
                                
                                  To sende hym a man myght hym baptyze,
                                
                                  Of Cristes lawe lere hym þe wyse.
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                                  When þe Pope herde þat tydynge,
                                
                                  He þanked Iesu, heuene kynge,
                                
                                  Þat in his tyme he wolde so wyrche,
                                
                                  Brytaigne to brynge to holy chirche.
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                                  Two clerkes he sente hider to preche—
                                
                                  Bisschopes þe were, þe lawe to teche,—
                                
                                  Þat o [þe to.]  clerk highte sire Duman,
                                
                                  Þat oþer men calde Bisschop ffagan, [Matan, MS. du Roi 27; Fagan, MS. du Roi 75153.3. Colb.; Wace, i. 248. l. 5349. Faganus, Geoffrey.] 
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                                  Þyse to bisschopes baptized þe kynge
                                
                                  & alle his men [meigne.]  at her comynge.
                                
                                  Þorow þe kyng & his [kyng had.]  grauntise
                                
                                  Þey ordeyned þe lawe in [as þe lawe is &.]  right assise;
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                                  Þei ordeigned ilka [MS. illa.]  bischop þer se, [Ordeyned þei Archbisshop see. (Lamb. MS. follows Wace.)]  [Petyt folio 34b:2] 
                                
                                  & Erchebischopes abouen hem to be. [& bisshopes vndere þam to be.] 
                                
                                  In hys tyme [þis lond.]  were temples olde,
                                
                                   [The eight and twenty flamens are in Geoffrey (chap. xix.) but not the next line.] Eyght & twenty flamins [grete.]  men tolde,—
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                                  Þe Latyn calleþ [sais þe.]  temple 'flamins,'—
                                
                                  Somme of Mahoun, & somme of Appoll[i]ns,

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 202
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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