The Laud Troy book.

                                  
                                    I haue meruayle what vs ayled [folio 181b] 
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                                    That we the kyng of Troye [MS. Troyl, the l only badly altered to e.]  assayled,
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                                    Whi that we this werre be-gan
                                  
                                    For the loue of a womman?
                                  
                                    We haue by-gonne folily this striff
                                  
                                    For Menelaus the kynges wiff.
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                                    ¶ What deuel ayled us to leue oure londes
                                  
                                    In other straunge mennes hondes?
                                  
                                    As thoght we roght not of oure lyues [In the MS. l. 12279 is following l. 12280.] 
                                  
                                    Off oure childryn & oure wyues
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                                    At home that we behynde vs leffte;
                                  
                                    An aunter were we schal se hem effte.
                                  
                                    And we ar here at gret dispence
                                  
                                    To make of this werre defence;
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                                    Oure goodis fast begynnes to waste,
                                  
                                    We may be beggeres alle In haste.
                                  
                                    ¶ We suffur wo of oure bodyes
                                  
                                    As men—me thynke—that are vn-wyse;
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                                    We take here not but woundes
                                  
                                    And ligge In dikes as dede houndes.
                                  
                                    Ne here is non a-monges vs alle
                                  
                                    That wot w[h]at wol him by-falle;
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                                    For the beste of vs echon
                                  
                                    May haue harm, and thei non,
                                  
                                    In woundes sore & gret brosures.
                                  
                                    He is a fole that him ensures
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                                    In his strengthe & In his myght,
                                  
                                    For I my-selff haue ben euel dyght:
                                  
                                    ¶ Many a wounde haue I here tholed,
                                  
                                    My body hath ben y-holed.
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                                    Was I not hurt so sore now last
                                  
                                    That I wende neuere to haue I-past?
                                  
                                    I was for-sothe the deth so hende,
                                  
                                    That non of ȝow my lyff ne wende.
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Title: The Laud Troy book.
Canvas: Page 362
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd.,; 1902[-03]

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