The story of England

                                
                                  But as priuely as men myght,
                                
                                  He dide his ost remue þat nyght,
                                
                                  & let [lete.]  [Petyt folio 77a:2]  Langres on þe left,
                                
                                  & þe wey til Ostum [Hoscum.]  hym reft.
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                                  By o weye [bi a gate.]  þat he wiste gayn,
                                
                                  He passed hilles, wode, & playn,
                                
                                  Til þey com þer þe stret lay hey, [Lambeth folio 57a:1] 
                                
                                  In a valeye þat hatte Swesy; [hate suesi.] 
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                                  Þorow þat veleye alle camen,
                                
                                  Þat fro Ostum [Hoscum.]  to Langres namen.
                                
                                  When þey were þere he bad þem rest,
                                
                                  & syþen ilkon þer armure on kest,
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                                  To be redy, what tyme þey mette,
                                
                                  Swyþe on hem to-gydere sette.
                                
                                  Þer harneys & þer frapaille
                                
                                  Þat fel nought to be in bataille,
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                                  Vnder an hil he set þem þere,
                                
                                  As þey armed men alle were,
                                
                                  Þat when þe Romayns on [of.]  þem had sight,
                                
                                  Þe mikelhed [multitude, Wace, ii. 190, l. 12,717.]  schuld make þem aflight. [ofright.] 
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                                  A legion [esciele, Wace, l. 12,719; but "légion" for legion, l. 13,338, below.]  þe kyng ches & tok,
                                
                                  Þe Erl of Gloucestre had þo to lok,—
                                
                                  A legion ys of folk þat wex,
                                
                                  Sex þousand, sex hundred, sexti & sex,—
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                                  & tauht hym on an hil to byde:
                                
                                  " Meue nought, for ought þat may bytide,
                                
                                  " Til þat y come, when y se nede;
                                
                                  " Þorow þe, we [þe way. (The text's þe=thee.)]  may stande & spede.
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                                  " Ȝyf swylk auenture bytide or be,
                                
                                  " Þat þe Romayns turn bak & ffle,
                                
                                  " ffolewe þou affter, þenne, & slo;

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 462
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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