" Of deþ may non þe [dede may non no.] bale bete,
" Þe sorewe nedly byhoueþ men [sorow bos men nedes.] lete;
" Bot haste þe swyþe on þyn enemis!
" Of þe bataille þou getest þe prys,
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3" To morewen schul þey boþe be schent, [Lambeth folio 39b:2]
" & al þer folk boþ sleyn & hent.3 [3-3
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¶ De interpretacione Comete per Merlynum.
" Þe sterne þat þou seye [ses.] so red,
" Bytokneþ euere þe kynges ded.
" Þe dragon, þat semeþ [P. inserts flaumand.] so hey,
" Þy self hit menes, þat ys so hardy;
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" Þe brond þat schyned out of his mouþ,
" Þat spreden [spredes.] boþe Est & South,
" Þat ys, of þe schal [sall.] come a sone
" Doughty of dede, many on schal mone;
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" Alle ffraunce þen schal [sall.] hym loute,
" Vntil Mongow men schal [sall.] hym doute.
" Þat oþer, þat schon West so euen,
" Toward þe Norþ hit spredde in seuen,
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" A doughter hit ys, y vnderstande,
" Þat maried schal [sall.] be bysyde Scotlande;
" Hure eyres bymene þo [mene þe.] [Petyt folio 55b:1] seuen brondes,
" Þat schullen [sall.] welde alle þo londes."
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¶ Syre Vter listned ilka del
How Merlyn conforted hym wel;
He bad his host reste al þat nyght,
On morn erlik [arely.] to bataille þem dight.
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