The story of England

                                
                                  " þo þat were seke, or had laught [& lauht.]  skaþes,
                                
                                  " Wasche [wesch.]  þe stones, did hit in baþes;
                                
                                  " Þat felde hem greued of grettere [felt þam greued of grete.]  þynges,
                                
                                  " Wasched þem [bathed þam.]  of þe selue waschinges,
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                                  " & warysched [heled.]  wel of al þer pyne;
                                
                                  " Had þey non oþer medycine."
                                
                                  ¶ When þe kyng herde of þer vertu,
                                
                                  Þat þey myght falle þe folk to prw,
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                                  He had longyng for þem to go,—
                                
                                  & of þat wyl wer oþer mo,—
                                
                                  Þe stones to Bretaigne for to brynge,
                                
                                  Þat Merlyn made of sermonynge.
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                                  Þey chosen [ches.]  Vter, þe kynges broþer,
                                
                                  Þe kyng ofred hym self þat oþer;
                                
                                  Of folk þey ladde fyftene þousand,
                                
                                  Agayn þe Irische [Iris (but Irisch l. 8837).]  for to stand;
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                                  Wyþ þem wente daunz Merlyn,
                                
                                  ffor þo stones to make engyn.
                                
                                  When Vter wyþ his folk was ȝare,
                                
                                  To schip þey went, ouer se to fare,
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                                  & aryued vpon þat cost.
                                
                                  Þe Irisch [Iris (but Irisch l. 8837).]  kyng gadered his host;
                                
                                  Ageyn þe Bretons þey cam right ȝerne,
                                
                                  Þe lond ȝyf þey myghte þem werne.
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                                  Þe Irisch kyng þat regned þar,
                                
                                  His name was sire Gwylomar;
                                
                                  When he wyste why þat he cam, [whi þei kam.]  [Petyt folio 53a:1] 
                                
                                  & so fer viage for stones nam,
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                                  He scorned þem on his langage, [P. leaves out this line.] 
                                
                                  ' So fer for stones to make passage, [P. leaves out this line.] 
                                
                                  ' Ouer se til an oþer lond,
                                
                                  ' ffor þey no stones hender [ne stones hender.]  fond;'

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 309
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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