& homage, al [at.] þeir maugre. [De Sepultura Walwyny.]
¶ Arthur wolde no soiour make,
But Moddred wold he sle or take;
But sorewe ful þough, did hym gret pyn,
Of sire Gawayn [Wawayn.] his dere cosyn,
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& Agusel þe Scottische kyng:
Arthur made here byrying [was at þer birieng.]
At Wybyry, þat ys in Walys;
. Þer lye þey boþe, seyþ Peres tales. [See Pierre de Langtoft's Chro|nicle, Rolls Series, vol. i. p. 220, l. 16-17.]
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Now comeþ al Arthures [turnes Arthur.] sorewe & drede.
To venge hym on þe false Moddrede,
Day ne night ne wolde he blynne.
To sege Wynchestre, Moddred wyþynne,
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He dide þe contre somoune al out,
& vmbyleide þe toun about.
Þen sey Moddred he was in clos,
& byseged [bised.] wiþ his fos;
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He þoughte þat ȝyf he so longe lay,
Wel schulde he nought wynne a-way,
Þat nedly taken schuld he be,
. & maugre hym [his.] ȝelde þe cite.
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Among his men he made a cry,
& bad hem alle arme hem redy;
Wyþ hym to fighte leuere he wylde
. Þan, his vnþankes, to þem [þam him.] ȝelde.
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His men in bataille gan þem [his batails set how þai suld.] renge,
& wente right out hym [MS. hyn.] for to venge;
Þe parties sone to-gydere ran,
& lorn was þere þen many a man.
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Moddredes partie ȝede al doun, [Lambeth folio 60b:1]
ffor his folk had no fuisoun;
