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Þe pouerail ouer Seuerne fley þat þer was þo
& bileuede vorþ in walis in sorwe & in wo
Wel longe þer afterward þo it com to amendement
& bote of hunger & of qualm vre louerd adde ysent
Som help of þe king alein þe king cadwallad bisoȝte
& þat he in to is kunde lond þoru help of him him broȝte
Þe king him grantede anon & as hii were aboute
Eyþer in is half to gadery gret ost & gret route
To king cadwallad an angel in auision broȝte
Fram heuene & bad him wiþdrawe of þat he þoȝte
Vor it nas noȝt godes wille þat of þe brutons kunne
Regnede more in engelond & al uor hor sunne
& nameliche at þulke tyme þat in is prophecye
Merlin sede to arþure þat nolde noþing lye
Vor he sede þat þe brutons me ssolde ȝut yse
Winne hor riȝte kinedom ac it ssolde arst longe be
Wanne þe relikes of halwen yfounde were & ykud
Þat vor drede of saxons er wide were yhud
To sergi þe pope þat þo was to rome he bed him wende
& do þere is penance þat god him wolde sende
& bileue al erþlich þoȝt þen deuel vor to ssende
& he ssolde among holimen to heuene atten ende
Þe king þis auisyon þat þe aungel him sede
Þe oþer king tolde priueliche him þer of to rede
Þe king alein let þo anon in is bokes aspye
Boþe of sybile þe sage & of merlines prophecye
Were hii to is auision acorded in eche þinge
& þo he vond þat bituene hom nas non discordinge
He radde þe king cadwallad to þenche nammore
Of engelond ac do al out þe angeles lore

& wende to rome holy lif to lede
Þe king cadwal dude al out þat þe aungel & he him bede
& at rome was of þe pope vayre vnder vonge
& In penance & holy lif liuede þere longe
& þe nyenteþe day of aueryl out of þis worl he wende
To þe Ioye of heuene as god after him sende
Hit was seue hondred ȝer bote on ȝer lasse vnneþe
After þat god an erþe com þat þis king com þus to deþe
Þe englisse þo & saxons þat al one þo were
Grete tounes & castles bigonne bulde & rere
Þat hii adde er ycast adoun & louerdes were þo
& þe brutons clene al out mid sorwe & mid wo
& lore þo boþe al clene name & eke lond
Vor þat was bruteyne ycluped er me clupeþ nou engelond
Þe vewe þat were of hom bileued as in cornwaile & walis
Brutons nere namore ycluped ac waleys ywis
After walon þat was hor duc hii adde verst þe name
& ne miȝte neuere eft þis lond keuere ac libbeþ mid alle ssame
Bote hii þus mid scolkinge vpe þe englisse wende
& doþ eni skek feble ynou & abbeþ þe worse ende
Ac as þe angel sede er & merlin ek biuore
Hii ssolleþ ȝut keuery moche lond þat hii abbeþ y lore
Al walis & al þe march & al middel lond ywis
Þat is al þat bituene temese & homber is
Al est toward londone þis me ssal ȝut yse
Ac vpe godes wille it is wanne it ssal be
Here we englisse men mowe yse some
Mid woche riȝte we beþ to þis lond ycome
Ac þe wrecche welissemen beþ of þe olde more
In woche manere ȝe abbeþ yhurd hou hii it abbeþ ylore
Ac þe feble is euere bineþe Ivor hii þat abbeþ miȝte
Mid strengþe bringeþ ofte þat wowe to þe riȝte

Po brutayne was þus ylore & þe londes name
To þe name of engelond yturnd hom to gret ssame
Seue kinges hii adde longe as þe king of est sex
Of kent of homberlond of estangle of souþsex
Of þe march of westsex of alle þes echon
Wule þer were kinges þat nis nou bote on
Vor eche bigan to worre mid oþer & oþeres lond bi nom
& hii of denemarch among hom vorte alle to one com
Þe king of west sex adde euere þe ouere hond
So þat atte laste he won alle þe oþeres lond
Ac souþsex ne laste noȝt longe ne est sex naþemo
Þe king of westsex sone hom wan bote viue nere þer þo
Þe kinedom of þe march ylaste longe & wel ynou
Vorte þe kunde king seint kenelm in martirdom me slou
King kenulf is fader god mon was þat þe hous of winchecoumbe
Rerde uerst & þere liþ him sulf in an coumbe
Þo sein kenel ymartred was is vncle seowulf
King was after him ymad þe kinges broþer kenulf
He nas king bote on ȝer ar on bernulf com
& þoru strengþe him caste out of is kinedom

Egbriȝt was king ymad as oþer biuore him were
Of west sex in þe ȝer of grace eiȝte hondred ȝere
Bi is daye seint kenelm to deþe ybroȝt was
Þe kinedom was þer after lute vor wreche of þat cas
Vor bernolf of wam we tolde noȝt þre ȝer king nas
Ar egbriȝt king of westsex made him fyki pas
Vor an bataile at elendone hii smite mid hor ost
Þe king bernulf was þer bineþe & binome him al þis bost
& is folc moche aslawe & he fley mid moche wo
In king egbriȝtes poer is kinedom was ydo
Eiȝte hundred ȝer & tuenty & sixe þer to
As in þe ȝer of grace þis batayle was ydo
Þe king of westsex her after adde al þe kinedom
Of þe march oþer eche ȝer truage of hom nom
In egbriȝtes kinedom þe four & tuentiþe ȝere
Hit was ar þis batayle at elendone were
Bernulf suþþe in est angle of men of þe londe
& þoru egbriȝtes poer was aslawe ich under stonde
& þat folc of estangle vnder uenge þere
King egbriȝt to hor souereyn & truage him bere
King egbriȝt was þo prout vor is seygnorye
Adelwolf is sone he sende mid vair bachelerye
To winne kent & estsex & soþereye mid maystrie
To þe lond of kent hii wende verst mid hor chiualerye
Kent hii wonne timeliche & balred þe king
Fley ouer temese & bileuede is owe þing
Estsex & souþsex & soþereye al so
Hii wonne ar hii come aȝen & þo al þis was ydo
Egbriȝt king of westsex al þis to him nom
Al to be vnder him & vnder is kinedom
Al þat lond bisouþe clene he adde þo
Vnder him oþer in is hond winne he þoȝte mo