The story of England

                                
                                  Þey byhalued þem aboute,
                                
                                  & ryden þorow þe Saxons route.
                                  Line 10,116 
                                
                                  On ilka syde doun þey fley,
                                
                                  & euere Arthur vpward stey
                                
                                  Wyþ Caliborn drawen in his hond;
                                
                                  Was non his dynt þat myghte wyþstond,
                                
                                  Þat hym ne byhoued nedly deye;
                                  Line 10,121 
                                
                                  Þer-fore þey fledde, & gaf hym weye;
                                
                                  So fele he slow, & broughte til schame,
                                
                                  ffor þus þey counted þat couþe þem ame,
                                  Line 10,124 
                                
                                  ffour [fyue.]  hundred he slow, mo allone
                                
                                  Þan his host dide ilkone.
                                
                                  Ded was Balduk, slayn was Colgrym,
                                
                                  & Cheldrik fledde wyþ mykel pyn;
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                                  Toward þer schipes to Toteneys
                                
                                  Þey fledde, & lefte al [þer.]  oþer harneys;
                                
                                  Lyghtly to go, wightly to fle,
                                
                                  . Þey leften al, & fledde to þe se.
                                  Line 10,132 
                                
                                  Arthur perceyued wel ynow
                                
                                  Þat to þer schipes þey fledde & drow;
                                
                                  Þen bad he sire Cador of Cornewaille
                                
                                  Take ten þousand of gode apparaille; [aparaile.] 
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                                  & after hem swyþe hey spedde,
                                
                                  & ouertoke þo þat fledde;
                                
                                  ffor Arthur to Scotland went:
                                
                                  Ohel a messeger hym sent,
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                                  & seyde 'þe Scottes byseged þe castel,
                                
                                  ' & hadde ner taken sire Ohel.'
                                
                                  Cheldrik fledde til his nauye;
                                
                                  But Cador was queynte & wyly;
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                                  By a bywey [bigate.]  [Petyt folio 60b:1]  to Totenes lay,
                                
                                  Cador & hyse toke þat way,
                                
                                  And to þe hauen wel raþer [ore.]  cam [Lambeth folio 44a:2]

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 354
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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