Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The story of England

" ȝe are comen of þo auncessours " Þat ful wel stode in alle stours; " Þorow þem ys Rome, wel haue ȝe herd, " Halden hed of al þe werd, 13,480 " & so schal be, y gyue [so sall .I. gyf.] [Petyt folio 78a:2] ȝow a gyue, " Al so longe as y may lyue. " Þey wonne þe londes þat we now heyre; " Schame hit were we scholde now peyre. 13,484 " Gentil þey were, oure kynde hit mones, " Of doughti fadres, of doughti sones; " Þer-fore doþ [dos.] now þat in ȝow es, " Likneþ ȝour fadres in [liken þour fadres.] doughtines! 13,488 " Better hit [bot it.] were in bataille pyne, " Þan faderes heritage to tyne; " & þat schul we on none wyse, " Heritage lese for feintyse! 13,492 " Þyse wordes for yuel seide y nought now, " ffor y fond neuere feintise in ȝow; [ll. 13,491-13,494. The Petyt MS. leaves out this line.] " ȝour fadres were gode, so ar ȝe, [Lambeth folio 57b:2] " Or bettere þan þey, hit may so be. 13,496 " ȝe wyte & se, as [se & wate als.] wel as y, " Þat by þat weye we schul go by " Vntil Ostum, hit ys wyþ-set; " But wiþ bataille or baret— 13,500 " I ne wot wheþer þey be robbours " Or þeues þat wolde haue ought of ours;— " Þat weye þey haue vs wyþ-sted " Þat y scholde ȝow haue inne y-led; [ll. 13,501-13,504. The Petyt MS. leaves out this line.] 13,504 " Y trowe þey wende þat y had scurned, " ffor þat y now ageyn ward turned. " Nay for soþe, þat þought y nought! " Y wolde þey hadde on vs more sought; 13,508
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Title
The story of England
Author
Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
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Page 468
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London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]
1887.
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Great Britain -- History

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