When tyme was þer fadres schuld deye, [De Morte Regum.]
By messegers þei herdit [herd.] [Petyt folio 89b:1] seye;
. Ouer se þey hadde passage,
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& receyued þer heritage.
ffrendes þey were þe firste two ȝer,
Als þer fadres loueden her, [lufed here.]
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& helde þer landes als þey or lay
Departed by þer fadres day;
Eadwyn fro Humber northward,
Þe southe was Cadwalynes part;—
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But Cadwalyn had mo & betere cites,
& larger londes and rentes [of rent.] & fees
Þan Edwyn hadde, by mikel þynge;
. Þe southe þer-fore was chef kynge,
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& coroune bar ouer þem ilkon,
& alle þe oþere schulde bere non. [Coronacio Cadwalini.]
At Cadwalynes coronement,
Alle kynges til his feste went.
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Sire Edwyn þere hym by-þought, [Australes semper dominabant Boriales.]
Cadwalyn of a bone bysought,
& preied hym þat he mighte be
Wyþ leue corouned in his contre.
. Þys bisoughte þe kyng Eadwyn,
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To haue leue of Cadwalyn.
' Conseil,' seid Cadwalyn, 'he schuld take;
' Als conseil gaf, so schulde men make;
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" But y schal wite what ys to done,
" & þou schalt haue answere right [an ansuere.] sone."
Afterward, no þrowe ne [no while.] was,
Þei mette atte water of Douglas,
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To conseille þem, & to wyte
How þat þyng best mighte site.
