The story of England

                                
                                  & right as his trumpes blewe,
                                
                                  A messager þat he wel knewe,
                                
                                  Þe lettres in his hand he leyde,
                                
                                  . & til his owen mouþ he [till him with mouth.]  [Petyt folio 81a:2]  seyde,
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                                  ' Þat Moddred, his sister sone,
                                
                                  ' Had y-don hym gret tresone;
                                
                                  ' He had taken of þe lond homage,
                                
                                  ' & leyd in casteles gret [don in kastellis gode.]  hostage;
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                                  ' ȝit wil he nought be þer-by,
                                
                                  ' But waiteþ þe [bot waite him with.]  more vileny:
                                
                                  " Þy wif til hys hore haþ [gon.]  drawe,
                                
                                  " Ageynes cristen mannes lawe;
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                                  " & Cheldryk, kyng of Germye, [Gernimie. (Saissone, Wace, ii. 221, l. 13,461.) Wace has this Cheldrik bit after Arthur's reaching Whitsand, l. 14,072, here.)] 
                                
                                  " Ys comen, & brought gret partie;
                                
                                  " By-ȝonde Humber, vntil Scotland,
                                
                                  " Cheldrik haþ þat in his hand;
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                                  " & al þat langes vntil Kent,
                                
                                  " Vntil Cheldrik gyue þey [ȝeldes.]  rent;
                                
                                  " To holde wyþ Moddred wyþ [at.]  his might,
                                
                                  " Trouþe to-gydere haue þey plight.
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                                  " Seuen hundred schipe lyn [schippes ligge.]  by þe stronde,
                                
                                  " ffour score þousand þer come [er comen.]  to londe
                                
                                  " Of men of armes, wyþoute pytaille,
                                
                                  " Ageyn þou comest, to gyue þe [ȝow comes to gyf.]  bataille."
                                
                                  ¶ When he had þus til Arthur teld,
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                                  How Moddred no feyþ ne trouþe hym held,
                                
                                  & synfullyke had reysed stryf,
                                
                                  His lond hym refte, for-leyn his wyf,
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                                  He made his plainte to sire Oel,
                                
                                  & preide hym to kepe ilkadel

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 487
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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