De multiplicacione Saxonum, & edificacione eorum per loca.
When þys tempest sessed was,
. & fele ȝeres passed hard pas,
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Þe Saxons vntil Saxoyne sent/,
& þey were fayn, & þyder went. [ment.]
Þey aryuede in Northumber-land, [From Geoffrey, bk. xii. § 16.]
. Þe moste of þer kynde þere þey land.
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ffro Scotland vntil Cornewaille, [From Geoffrey, bk. xii. § 16.]
Al þe lond gan þey taille;—
Logres hit highte a wel god þrowe,
. ffor Loqeryn þat we in Ingeland knowe;
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But Bretayne was, by elde tales,
Engelond, Scotland, & Wales;
Al o land, al was o [a land & a.] name;
. Of þys matere y telde þe same.—
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Was þer non here þat letted þer weye,
Ne þer takynge wolde wyþ-seye;
ffor of þe Bretons were left but fo, [P. leaves out these lines. See Wace, ii. 292, l. 15,149-50; and Geoffrey, ch. xii. § 16.]
. Or any þat were yborn of þo, [P. leaves out these lines. See Wace, ii. 292, l. 15,149-50; and Geoffrey, ch. xii. § 16.]
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& þo skulked to wodes & fennes, [P. leaves out these lines. See Wace, ii. 292, l. 15,149-50; and Geoffrey, ch. xii. § 16.]
To Cornewaille þey fledden hennes; [P. leaves out these lines. See Wace, ii. 292, l. 15,149-50; and Geoffrey, ch. xii. § 16.]
In to Walys þey fledden also;
. Of Bretons kynde were left/ namo. [
for bretons in to wales fleih.of þer kynd was nouht þat deih.] [Petyt folio 95a:1] Line 16,564 At þys tyme þat y here mene, Þe Bretons passed out quit & [out all. (From Geoffrey, ch. xii. § 16.)] clene, & Englische made her þeyr byggynge, . & ches þeym of þeyr kynde a kyng. Line 16,568 Þyse Saxons [þer sessons.] þat hyder camen, Loue & pees þey held ay samen;
