The story of England

                                
                                  What wyþ þat on, what wyþ þat oþer,
                                
                                  Þer lefte no force agayns non oþer.
                                
                                  What dide Melga & Guaneis,
                                
                                  Bot gadred ost of Outlandeys.
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                                  Wiþ gret nauye o þe se þey [with a grete flete on flode to.]  [Petyt folio 39b:2]  ryde,
                                
                                  & comen in alle by Scotlande syde;
                                
                                  Wyþ werre & wo þey dide gret noye,
                                
                                  ffor Westmorland al gon þey struye;
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                                  Al þe northe contre þey wasted.
                                
                                  Þey passed Humber, & southe hem hasted;
                                
                                  Non encountre [in no countre.]  þey ne fond,
                                
                                  Bot husbonde-men þat tyled lond,
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                                  & werkmen, & oþer pedaille
                                
                                  Þat couþe nought werre ne of bataille;
                                
                                  ȝif any swyche stod ought  [ony of swik stode.] agayn,
                                
                                  Wyþ armed men sone were þey slayn.
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                                  Ilk man fro his owen gan fle,
                                
                                  & þo þat ne myghte, slayn was he:
                                
                                  How scholde þat londe kepe hym fro harmes, [How suld a lond be dredede.] 
                                
                                  Þat naked ys of men of armes? [þat of knigthes es al nakyd.] 
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                                  A lond hedles [heuedles.]  in tyme of nede,
                                
                                  Ouer al þanne ys sorewe & drede;
                                
                                  & so was þenne bot cry & kare,
                                
                                  Of socour & help þey were al bare;
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                                  Bot [to.]  while þey hadde þer bolde barons,
                                
                                  Sauelike [Sauely.]  held þey þer castels & touns;
                                
                                  Ouer alle landes þey schewed þer [þei mustird.]  myghtes,
                                
                                  Þe whyles [to whyle.]  þey hadde þer noble knyghtes.
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                                  Þen chose þey of most bolde [þei ches þat were baldest.]  & fers,
                                
                                  & sent hem to Rome as messegers
                                
                                  ffor help vnto Maximian;

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 232
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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