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Edwinus
Suiche gode kinges me ssolde non finde among
Þat angles of hor ending miȝte make hor song
Þat angles of hor ending miȝte make hor song
Edwyne Edmundes sone after edred king was
Fals & luþer vor no worse in is kunde nas
Ase a nywe herodes in such poer he com
& vpe is poer destruede & apeyrede cristendom
A fol womman in spousbruche he huld vnder is wif
Sein dunston him sede wel þat it was a luþer lif
Ase seint Ion þe baptist calanged hore misdede
Wroþ was þe king & is hore þat he hor folie wiþsede
& þe womman fondede him to deþe bringe
So þat seint dunston was þoru hire & þoru þe kinge
Yflemed out of engelond & to flaundres wende
Þe gode man ne tok neuere gome þat me him so foule ssende
Abbeys þis luþer mon broȝte ek in alle wo
& þe hous of malmesbury þat an old hous was þo
Of tuo hundred ȝer & seuenty he arerd þer biuore
He made hit stable to his hors as it were al uor lore
So luþer man was þis king þat þe heye men of þe londe
Bigonne ase hii nede moste aȝen him vaste at stonde
& binome him moche of is lond & bitok edgar is broþer
Vor he drou to alle godnesse & betere was þan þe oþer
Þis edwine was þus king þre ȝer & somdel more
& þat lond vor is deþe ne wep no þing sore
& ȝut for alle ssrewede as it ywrite is
Þoru biddinge of seint dunston is soule com in to blis
Fals & luþer vor no worse in is kunde nas
Ase a nywe herodes in such poer he com
& vpe is poer destruede & apeyrede cristendom
A fol womman in spousbruche he huld vnder is wif
Sein dunston him sede wel þat it was a luþer lif
414
Wroþ was þe king & is hore þat he hor folie wiþsede
& þe womman fondede him to deþe bringe
So þat seint dunston was þoru hire & þoru þe kinge
Yflemed out of engelond & to flaundres wende
Þe gode man ne tok neuere gome þat me him so foule ssende
Abbeys þis luþer mon broȝte ek in alle wo
& þe hous of malmesbury þat an old hous was þo
Of tuo hundred ȝer & seuenty he arerd þer biuore
He made hit stable to his hors as it were al uor lore
So luþer man was þis king þat þe heye men of þe londe
Bigonne ase hii nede moste aȝen him vaste at stonde
& binome him moche of is lond & bitok edgar is broþer
Vor he drou to alle godnesse & betere was þan þe oþer
415
& þat lond vor is deþe ne wep no þing sore
& ȝut for alle ssrewede as it ywrite is
Þoru biddinge of seint dunston is soule com in to blis
Edgar edwines broþer & edmondes sone þe king
King was after Edwin god man þoru alle þing
No licchere is broþer him nas þane wolf is a lomb
Of manere ne of dede þei hii were in one womb
Vor þulke tyme þat edgar of is moder was ybore
Seint dunstan was at glastingbury þer after & biuore
Þo hurde he þulke tyme angles singe ywis
Vpe in þe luft a murye song & þat song was þis
To holy chirche & to þe lond pays ys ybore & blis
Bi þulke childes time þat nouþe ybore is
Suþþe þo seint dunston wuste þat child ybore riȝt þo
He wuste þat al engelond he ssolde bringe of wo
King was after Edwin god man þoru alle þing
No licchere is broþer him nas þane wolf is a lomb
Of manere ne of dede þei hii were in one womb
Vor þulke tyme þat edgar of is moder was ybore
Seint dunstan was at glastingbury þer after & biuore
Þo hurde he þulke tyme angles singe ywis
Vpe in þe luft a murye song & þat song was þis
To holy chirche & to þe lond pays ys ybore & blis
Bi þulke childes time þat nouþe ybore is
416
He wuste þat al engelond he ssolde bringe of wo
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