The story of England

                                
                                  Somme oþer weys gan hit rede,
                                
                                  But alle þey seyde he schulde wel spede;
                                  Line 12,136 
                                
                                  Þen seide hym self, "y trowe hit menes
                                
                                  " Þis werre, & manye oþer tenes
                                
                                  " Bytwyxt me & þe Emperour.
                                
                                  " Let God al worthe, my creatour!"
                                  Line 12,140 
                                
                                  ¶ At þat word þe day gan sprynge,
                                
                                  Þe sonne ros faire y þe mornynge,
                                
                                  & at þe sonne rysyng in god tyme
                                
                                  Þey come to Bareflete er pryme.
                                  Line 12,144 
                                
                                  ffro [of.]  [Petyt folio 71b:1]  schip to londe ful sone þey ȝede,
                                
                                  & in þe contre aboute gon sprede;
                                
                                  He seide he wolde his folk abyde,
                                
                                  Þo þat were nought come [not comen.]  þat tyde.
                                  Line 12,148 
                                
                                  Longe while [long stounde.]  dwelled he nought,
                                
                                  Þat tydynges men hym [tiþinges men to him.]  brought,
                                
                                  Þat þider was comen a geaunt,
                                
                                  & longe þer hadde ben his haunt;
                                  Line 12,152 
                                
                                  Out of Spayne was he comen, [MS. comem.] 
                                
                                  & [had] [had.]  Sire Oheles nece y-nomen;
                                
                                  Mayde Eleyne was hure name,
                                
                                  He had hure taken to do hure schame,
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                                  & had hure brought vnto an hil,
                                
                                  Þat non ne myghte ne durste [dar.]  com til.—
                                
                                  Micheles Mount men calles [call.]  hit now,
                                
                                  . Þere þe geaunt Eleyne slow;
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                                  Was þer non auter ne [altere no. (mostier ne, Wace, ii. 145, l, 11,575.]  no chapel
                                
                                  Þat ilke tyme þat þis chaunce fel;
                                
                                  Aboute þat hil þe water flowes,
                                
                                  . Comeþ þer non þat he ne rowes.—
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                                  Þer [it.]  was non þat hadde þat myght
                                
                                  Þat wyþ þe geaunt durst ones fight;

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 425
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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