The story of England

                                
                                  Hengistes sone þat highte Octa,
                                
                                  & his cosyn sire Ebbesa,
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                                  Wyþ gret pyne þey boþe ascaped,
                                
                                  & ȝork to take þey hem raped.
                                
                                  Bot whan þey hadde þe toun taken,
                                
                                  Warly wayted, & held þem waken,
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                                  Þoþer þat lefte, fled her & þer,
                                
                                  By dounes & dales, by [in.]  wodes ay-wher.
                                
                                  Þe kyng was ioyful þat he so spedde,
                                
                                  Hengist was taken, & his folk fledde;
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                                  To Conyngesburghe þe kyng gan turne,
                                
                                  & þere þre dayes mad he soiourne,
                                
                                  Þe wounded for to hele & reste,
                                
                                  Þe Payens fro þe Cristen keste.
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                                  In þat tyme þat þey þer lay,
                                
                                  Þe Bretons [barons.]  [Petyt folio 51b:1]  alle, þat oþer day
                                
                                  To conseil þe kyng cald hem to,
                                
                                  Þe beste to wite [Of Hengist.]  what were to do:
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                                  Wheþer Hengist þey redden [MS. reddem.]  hym [whedir þei red him for.]  to slo,
                                
                                  Or hym enprisone, [Hold him in prison.]  or lete hym go.
                                
                                  A byschop onswered,—sire Eldadus,
                                
                                  Sire Eldokes broþer,—& seide right þus:
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                                  " I deme Hengist þe same wys
                                
                                  " As in þe bible Samuel seys.
                                
                                  " Samuel did Agag to þe ded—
                                
                                  " Kyng of Amalek was þat qued,—
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                                  " A ful fers [proude.]  kyng, riche & kene,
                                
                                  " To Godes folk he wroughte al tene, [till godes folk he did ay tene.at all his myght wo þam wrouht.& euer werre on þam souht.] 
                                
                                  " He robbed here godes, þer tounes brent,
                                
                                  " & alle he slow þat he myght hent.
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                                  " Swylk sorewe [suilk mischefe.]  myght nought longe dure;
                                
                                  " He was taken at a desconfyture,

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 301
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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