The story of England

                                    
                                      Þat þeym þe lond furst furbed,
                                    
                                      Of hym he gaf nought, þat was newe,
                                    
                                      Til hym þoughte he neuere be trewe.
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                                      What dide þis schrewe, þe false Octa?
                                    
                                      Conseilled wyþ his cosyn Ebessa, [Cosa. (Eossa, Wace, ii. 12, l. 8640; Eosa, Galf. Mon. viii. 18.)] 
                                    
                                      Wyþ alle þo of his owen kynde,
                                    
                                      & oþer Saxons þat þey myght fynde;
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                                      & fele of þo wyþ hem went
                                    
                                      Þat scaped atte [fro þe.]  slaughter of Passent;
                                    
                                      Þat fro Vter handes [in weles.]  fled,
                                    
                                      Þey com til Octa, & he þem led.
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                                      By-ȝonde Humber al þe land
                                    
                                      Octa tok vntil hys hand,
                                    
                                      Al til Scotland in lengþe & bred.
                                    
                                      To ȝork syþen al þey ȝed,
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                                      Þat [toun] for to bysege [þe toun for to sege.]  & to wyn;
                                    
                                      Þey defended hem faste wyþyn; [fended it that was þer-In.] 
                                    
                                      Þe kyng þe sege wolde remewe,
                                    
                                      Þe toun a-geynes þeym rescuwe;
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                                      He þoughte nought longe fort [long to.]  [Petyt folio 55a:1]  abyde,
                                    
                                      Bot gadered folk on ilka syde.
                                    
                                      When he was comen, he abod nought,
                                    
                                      Bot on þe Payens bataille sought;
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                                      & þe Payens egre & stout,
                                    
                                      Þorow þe Bretons held þem out;
                                    
                                      Payens & Cristen, many were slawen,
                                    
                                      & many a sowle fro [Many saule of.]  body drawen.

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 321
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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