Þe lond aboute he dide hit stake,
A fforcelet þer-on þan dide he make,
& on his wyse [langage.] he gaf hit name,
' Þe Castel of Þonges,' [Vancastre (Wace, i. 327), MS. du Roi, 27; Gancastre, MS. du Roi, 73, Cangé; Tuancastre, MS. de l'Ars., 171, B.-L.] þe firste fame;
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Syn, als schorter speche fel,
Hit was called 'þong castel;' [thuangcastell.]
Bot Frenschemen couþe nought so seye,
& caldit 'Castel de Correye;'
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Þat vse [uses.] men byȝonde þe se,
& Bretons caldit 'Kaer Karre.' [Wace adds that many now call it 'Lancastre' who don't know the cause of its first name, l. 7082-4.]
¶ Exe Castellum factum est, cui dedit nomen Þongcastre.
When Þongcastre [thuang castell.] was al closed,
Þe name y-gyuen, [giffen.] oueral alosed,
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Of þo þat Hengyst sente his sonde,
Þer comen sexten schipe [xiij. schippis. (dix huit nés, Wace, i. 327, l. 7087; decem et octo naues, Galf. Mon. vi. 12.)] [Petyt folio 45a:2] to londe,
Wyþ mikel folk, knyghtes, swaynes,
& oþere þat were of his demaynes.
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¶ In a schip wyþ gentil [geentill. The second scribe wrote this column and the next two: see his q, -it, -is, -in, in the notes10, p. 266; 13, p. 264; 11, p. 266; 1, 12, p. 265.] men
Com Hengiste doughter þat hight Ronewen, [Roven, Wace, i. 328, l. 7091.]
A ȝong woman & louely, [a fair woman & a loueli.]
Auenaunt, & fair & semly; [auenaunt gret & fair was hi.]
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Bot þis lewed men sey & synge,
& telle þat hit was mayden Inge. [and tellit it was a may din ȝinge.]
