Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The story of England

" Truage ȝe gaf, & vmwhile [som tyme.] nought; " When we hit hadde, dere was [we.] hit bought; " Litel þerof were we amended, 6737 " ffor ay for ȝow wel more we spended. [more for ȝow we haf dispendid.] " ȝyf o ȝer til vs we ȝe hit ȝolde, " Two ȝer after ȝe ne wolde; 6740 " ȝyf o kynges tyme ȝe were vs trwe, " To so mykel after [tuys als mykell.] ȝour wrong was newe,— " Til whan ȝe mighte onst stonde [to while ȝe myght ouht stand.] ageyn— " Ne louede ȝe neuere man Romayn; 6744 " Ay when we come to þys lond, " To lese oure right som cheson ȝe fond, " And oþer wronges til vs y-nowe; " An[d] alderworst, [aldermast.] oure men ȝe slowe. 6748 " Now ȝe haue nede, ȝe vs byseke, [Lambeth folio 29b:2] " And het vs þanne to ben vs meke. " Whan we han holpen ȝow in cas, " Þen do ȝe wors, & more trespas; 6752 " Til vs ȝe bere ȝow as lyouns, " & waytes [waite.] vs wyþ sum tresons " ffor to wyþ-halden vs oure right, " Oþer yuel hit gyuen, [ouer wikly gif.] & þat wiþ fyght. 6756 " Wel bettere were hit al for-sake, " Þan suffre þe wo we þer-fore take; " Our costes ar grete, & [we] wone [It is grete coste we.] fer heþen, " & ȝe haue ay nede, & ar byneþen; 6760 " & we ne mowe nought [we may not all way.] come al day. " Doþ now ȝour self as ȝe best may! " May we ones take til Rome, " ffor no man eft schol we here come. 6764 " To saue ȝour self, bygynneþ [bigynnes.] [Petyt folio 40b:2] now,
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Title
The story of England
Author
Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
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Page 237
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London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]
1887.
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Great Britain -- History

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