De Rege Constantino post Arthurum.
But Cadores sone highte Constantyn
Of Cornewaille, Arthures cosyn,
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He tok hym þe roiame in [He bitauht him.] kepyng;
Vntil he cam, bad hym be kyng. ["Mais ainc puis Artus ne re|"vint," adds the MS. du Roy, 75153.3., Colb. Wace, ii. 232, l. 13,706.]
¶ Of Moddred were two sones left/,
Þat þe lond wold hym haue reft;
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Proude men & riche were þey;
Þey seye þe force ȝede al awey,
Þe gode knyghte þat þer ware,
Were y-slayn, þe land was bare.
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Þey seye þat Arthur nought ne com;
To haue drede þey nyste of whom;
Þe newe kyng nought þey dredde,
. But gadered folk, & hostes ledde,—
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Þo Saxons þat Moddred held,
Þat ascaped vnslayn y þe feld,—
To þem alle were ef[t] [þei wer.] alyed;
. Þe kynges men ouer al þei spyed;
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Of Londone þat on [london þei.] sesed þe cite,
& þe beste of alle þe contre;
Þat oþer, Wynchestre & al þe schire,
& wende haue ben [wend haf bien.] lord & sire.
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¶ Constantyn herde of þer estre,
& hyed hym ȝerne vnto Wynchestre,
& in a kyrke he hym fond.
ffor al þe kirke ne wolde he wond;
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Byfore þe auter seint Anfrybal [Amfiball. (Aufibal, MS. du Roi, 27; Amphibal, MS. du Roi, 73, Cangé: Wace, ii. 233, l. 13,727.)] [Petyt folio 83a:1]
His hed he smot of quitly [? quitly = quite.] al; [quikely smote his hede of all.]
