The story of England

                                
                                  Þe ton quiked þe toþer to lyue,
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                                  Þe Romayns to greue, fast gon þey stryue, [ll. 13,247-13,248. The Petyt MS. leaves out this line.] 
                                
                                  Þe Romayns in haste turnde [Romeyns gaf bak.]  & fledde, [Lambeth folio 56b:2] 
                                
                                  Þey hadde no clos, but oueral spredde; [klos ouer all þei spred.] 
                                
                                  To þer logges þer þey hem busched, [bussed.] 
                                
                                  Þey fledde, & þer wer al to-lusched. [to lusshed.] 
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                                  But Ewander þat slow Borel,
                                
                                  & ffyue hundred [sis cent et plus, Wace, ii. 186, l. 12,641.]  wyþ sire Catel,
                                
                                  Were alle slayn & don in hold,
                                
                                  Wyþouten lordes þat more were told.
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                                  Þat þey wold haue, al þey hadden,
                                
                                  Prysons y-nowe alle þey ladden; [inow away laden.]  [Petyt folio 77a:1] 
                                
                                  Þer þe bataille was, þey turnde ageyn,
                                
                                  & tryde þe Bretons fro ilk [& souht ilk breton fro.]  Romeyn.
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                                  To seke Borel his men had hast,
                                
                                  Þey fond hym sone, ȝeldyng [ȝeldand.]  þe gast.
                                
                                  Þe wounded men to saue þey sought,
                                
                                  & þe slayn to erþe þey brought.
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                                  Þe firste prisons þat Arthur sent,
                                
                                  Þo þat were charged, to Parys went;
                                
                                  Þe oþere prisons þat þey last hent,
                                
                                  Of þeym til Arthur þey made present,
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                                  & telde þem wel of [him all.]  þeyr deseit,
                                
                                  How þeir hap was ner ouer-streit,
                                
                                  & how Vtred was þer socour,
                                
                                  . & grately meyntende þem in [& mayntend þam in þat.]  stour,
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                                  & bed hem [bad him.]  boldely to bataille wende;
                                
                                  Of þemperour gat þey [he.]  þe fairere ende.
                                
                                  ¶ Þemperour herde [herd how.]  þe Bretons sped
                                
                                  . Þorow þe help of sire Vtred,

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 460
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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