The story of England

                                
                                  ' What schold of þat child bycome, [childe com.]  [Hic natus est Brutus.] 
                                
                                  Good or wykke, [ill.]  what maner dome.'
                                
                                  Þey seide, 'þey founde (als þeym was wo,)
                                
                                  ffader & moder scholde he [he suld.]  sloo,
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                                  & out of londe go for þat chaunce,
                                
                                  And siþen come to god cheuysance;
                                
                                  Passe he scholde mani [mony.]  a stour,
                                
                                  & syþen come to [till.]  gret honur.'
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                                  Þey founde syþen, als þey seyde,
                                
                                  Þat of his burþe [when he was born.]  his moder deide;
                                
                                  His moder deide al so swiþe;
                                
                                  Þe child lyuede; þey were al bliþe.
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                                  Brutus, þus his name þey teld,
                                
                                  Whan he was of fiftene ȝer [was fiften ȝere.]  eld,
                                
                                  His ffader & he to wode þey went,
                                
                                  To venerye he gaf his tent;
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                                  An herde of hertes sone þey met,
                                
                                  At a triste [at triste.]  to schete, Brutus was set;
                                
                                  He auysed hym opon an hert,—
                                
                                  Hys ffader passed bytwixt ouerthwert,—
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                                  & wyþ þat schote his ffader he slow;
                                
                                  Al vnwylland þat draught he drow. [bot his willand not it drouh.] 
                                
                                  Whan Brutus sey [sawe.]  hys ffader ded,
                                
                                  He nyste what was best to red; [best rede.] 
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                                  ffor deol & drede awey he nam
                                
                                  Tyl Grece fro when his fader cam; [vntill þe londe of Grece he cam.] 
                                
                                  Þe folk of Troye þer he fond,
                                
                                  Þat lyuede in seruage y þe lond. [in þat londe.] 
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                                  Elenum, Pryamyes [Priami.]  sone,

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Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 30
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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