The story of England

                                
                                  He bed his body, his ouer myght,
                                
                                  Wyþ Eneas al-one to fyght.
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                                  Sire Eneas was þer-of fayn,
                                
                                  Þey faught [smyte.]  togyder, Turnus was slayn,
                                
                                  Eneas wedded þe [þat.]  mayden ȝynge;
                                
                                  Þen was scheo quen, & he [he. Lamb. MS. scheo.]  was kynge.
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                                  Þanne fond [Siþen fand.]  he non þat hym noyed,
                                
                                  Ne nought of his lond destruyed;
                                
                                  Siþen he wedded Lauyne his wyfe,
                                
                                  He held þe lond wyþouten strife.
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                                  In pes foure ȝer he regned wel;
                                
                                  Wyþynne þe ȝeres he made a castel,
                                
                                  & gaf hit name þorow euery [thorgh ilka.]  [Petyt folio 5b:2]  toun
                                
                                  After dame Lauyne, Lauyoun.
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                                  In þe ferþe ȝer, last of his lyf,
                                
                                  Of hym conceiued Lauyne his wyf;
                                
                                  & er þe child fel to be born,
                                
                                  Sire Eneas was ded byforn. [ore was Eneas dede beforne.] 
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                                  When Lauynes [Lauine.]  tyme was fulfyld,
                                
                                  Of hure was born (as grace hit wild,)
                                
                                  A knaue child, men kald him Syluius;
                                
                                  Hys to-name was Pollynius. [Postomius, Wace, p. 5, l. 80; Enéam, MS. du Roy, 75153.3. Colb., ib.] 
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                                  Askaneus, Eneas oþer sone
                                
                                  Þat com wyþ him, (as ȝe wel mone,) [I gan ȝow mone.] 
                                
                                  After his fader þe lond he tooke,
                                
                                  His brother Syluius he dide hit [to.]  looke,
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                                  Syluius [Silui.]  his half brother was,
                                
                                  Gete of his ffader kynge Eneas.
                                
                                  Askaneus dide make a citee,
                                
                                  Þe name Albe þan [þan omitted.]  gaf hit he;

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 28
Publication: London,: Longman & co.; [etc., etc.]; 1887.
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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