" Þat broughte þat lettre of vylenye!
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" & for his loue þat sente ȝow hyder,
" ȝe schul ben honged alle to-gyder!"
Lytel letted þey nadde be slayn or hirt; [letted þat men þam hirte.] [Petyt folio 68a:2]
But Arthur þenne anon vp stirt:
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" Bretouns!" he saide, "holdeþ [hold.] ȝow stille!
" Þe messegers schul haue non ylle!
" Ne neyþer ille haue ne [non ille haf non ille here.] here,
. " But come & go in faire manere;
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" Messegers of Rome þey are,
" In pes þey come, so schul þey fare;
" Þer message þat þei haue seyd,
" A lord þey haue, on þem hit leyd."
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When þe noyse [dynne.] was wel pesed,
& eft hadde þeir sittynge [þei had þer setes.] sesed,
Þe kyng tok wyþ hym two or þre
Of his wysest barouns priue,
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Þat best couþe conseille til honour;
Wyþ hym þey ȝede vntil a tour,—
Þe name þer-of, hit was in haunt
As y fond writen, þe Tour Geaunt—
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Þer sat Arthur, & þey byside,
To conseille how myghte best bytide.
¶ Dicta Cadoris Cornubye. [Lambeth folio 50a:2]
Sire Cador spak firste, & low, [louh.]
& seyde, "sire kyng, y schal sey ȝow:
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" Often in studie haue y ben,
" And in gret drede ay bytwen,
" Þat þorow ildelnesse [Idelnes.] of pes
" Are Bretons feble & herteles;
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