The story of England

                                    
                                      & bad hem to þe casteles [castell.]  drawe,
                                    
                                      Þo þat were of Troyes lawe,—
                                    
                                      Men & wymen & children [childere.]  ylkone
                                    
                                      Þat to hym hadde mad þer mone—
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                                      & þider scholde þer godes [þer godes þidere suld þei.]  lede,
                                    
                                      Vntil þo casteles [vnto þe castell.]  for doute & drede.
                                    
                                      Whan þey hadde þer godes lad,
                                    
                                      Byside þe casteles busked [castell bussed.]  & spred,
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                                      & Brutus saugh his men wel dyght
                                    
                                      All redy vnto þe fyght,
                                    
                                      Brutus dide write a bref, [Lambeth folio 4a:2] 
                                    
                                      Vnto sire Pandras, kyng & chef;
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                                      Þys ys þe lettre [brefe.]  þat he sent,
                                    
                                      Þe latyn, y vnderstonde, [þat latyn vndrestode.]  þus ment:

¶ Epistola Bruti ad Regem Grecorum.

                                    
                                      " For þe schame & þe outrage
                                    
                                      " þat ys don þe noble lynage
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                                      " Of kynge Dardan, our auncessour,
                                    
                                      " At meschef ys in deshonur,
                                    
                                      " In cheytifte longe haue [caytifte long haf.]  þey leyn,
                                    
                                      " Bot now þey hope to come ageyn;
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                                      " Wiþ [In.]  o wille alle haue þey spoken,
                                    
                                      " In o conseil alle ar þey loken—
                                    
                                      " 10& wyþ þeym alle y am leued—
                                    
                                      " Me to haue to þer heued;10 [10-10Me to haf vnto þer heued.& with þam all I am beleued.] 
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                                      " I sende to þe þer alder sawe,
                                    
                                      " Þat to þe wode þey wil hem drawe;
                                    
                                      " Þer ys hem leuere lyue yn wo,
                                    
                                      " In wyldernesse wyþ bestes go,

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About this Item

Title: The story of England
Author: Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.
Canvas: Page 33
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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