Longe þey preied, bot at þe [bisouht & he at.] ende
He graunted þeym þider to wende;
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He tok wyþ hym [he dight his folk.] knyghtes & squiers,
Men wiþ bowes & arblasters, [with alblastes & oþer archers.]
& his moder ful wys [his moder eames wys men.] of dome;
Wyþ hym wente þey alle vntil Rome.
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ffor þey were men of honurs,
He dide hem y þe ordre of senaturs;
Þat on highte sire Huwelyn, [Leonyn. (Lohélius, Wace.)]
Þat oþer Iohern, ['þat oþer' is dotted under, as if for omission, in the Lambeth MS. The Petyt reads þe toþer Trahern (L'altre Trahens, Wace). (See Tra|herne here, lines 6259-64,&c., below.) Geoffrey (v. 8) gives only Leolin, Trahern, and Marius, three uncles of Helena.] Eroert, & [þe þrid.] Maryn;
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Wardeyns he ordeined gode & [left gode.] certeyn,
Þis lond to kepe til he com ageyn,
When Constantyn to Rome cam, [Lambeth folio 27b:1]
Þe maistrie fro Maxcence he nam,
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And was hym selue emperour,
& Maxcence doun wiþ deshonur. [R. Brunne leaves out Wace's seven lines (i. 270) on the finding of the Cross by Helena.]
Til sire Huelyn [Leonyn.] he gaf a wyf,
Of noble kynde was sche ryf:
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Of þat wyf, sire Huelyn [Leonyn.] wan
A child men calde Ma[x]imian. [Maximian.]
¶ De Rege Octauo. [This heading is two lines lower in the MS.]
I þe wardeyns tyme [this wardeyns.] þat Constantyn tok
Þe Bretons for to lok,
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