Seint Bede telles in his gestes [I cannot find anything like this in Bede. See note2, p. 510 below.]
. How þe Bretons brak Godes heste[s]: [hestis.]
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Why þat meschaunce gan on þem [mischefe on þam gon.] [Petyt folio 84a:2] falle,
In his bokes he writes hit alle.
Of eighte [
The MS. has also .viij. over the word, and a later red note at the side in Latin—
" ¶ Nota: ¶ consilium Iuuenum," ¶ Latens odium, ¶ Singulare co|" modum destruunt regnum."] þat [Auht (for of eighte þat).] he wrytes, y telle þe þre, [Lambeth folio 62a:2] . In stede of an autorite: Line 14,596 [Nota.] . Propre profit, & pryue hate, ȝonge mennes conseil þey toke algate; ffor by [befor.] alle þyse þre þey ches, . And mest þorow þyse, Bretayne þey les. Line 14,600
¶ Caricius, Rex Brutonum, versus est in fugam.
Gurmound soughte faste & spyrede,
Þe kyng to haue, mykel [to mykell.] he desyred;
Carice to folewe, faste he spedde,
. & euere Carice byfore hym fledde;
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To Circestre algate he wan,
& Gurmound hym folewede, þe [Gurmund & ilk an.] Aufrican,
Byseged þe toun a ful long while,
. & brente hit wyþ a queynte gyle.
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He telleþ [he telles. (he = Wace; see vol. ii. p. 242; Geoffrey of Monmouth, bk. xi. ch. 8; Laȝamon, iii. 168.)] first of a meschaunce
Of kyng Lowys cosyn of ffraunce,—
His name was cald Isambert—
. He dide hym selue a folie apert;
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To Gurmound cam, & wyþ hym spak,
His Cristendom fursok & brak,
