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Wel a ȝer & an half þus it ferde aboute
Þat ech heiman dude is fon ssame mid is route
Atte laste þo winter towarde ende drou
At candelmasse ech of hom gret ost nom inou
& sir roger of clifford gloucetre wuste al so
& at ech ȝat of þe toun god warde let do
Sir Ion giffard com aday & sir Ion de balun þere
Ride vpe tueye wolpakces chapmen as hii were
To þe west ȝate ouer þe brugge & þe porters bede
To late in tueie wolmongers hor chaffare in to lede
Biweued hii were boþe mid welsse mantles tueie
Þo þe ȝates were vndo hii hupte adoun beye
Of hor hors & caste hor mantles awei anon
& þo stode hii Iarmed fram heued to þe ton
Þo were þe porters agrise sore of þulke siȝte
& caste hom þe keyen vawe þat hii miȝte
Poer þer was inou atte brugge ende
Þo þe ȝates were vndo hii gonne þuder wende
Sir simondes sone de monfort sir henri þe hende
& mani god bodi ek as god þuder sende
Þo þe barons adde þe toun & þe castel þe king
Þer was ofte bituene hom gret bikering
Sir edward was bi este þo mid poer gret inou
Sone toward leinte toward þe march he drou
Is wei he nom bi oxenford ac þe borgeis anon
Þe ȝates made aȝen him of þe toune echon
He wende & lai wiþoute toun atte kinges halle
& wende vorþ amorwe mid is men alle
Þe ȝates þo he was iwend were alle vp ibroȝt
Sone bote smiþe gate ac þat nas vndo nouȝt
Þe clerkes adde þer þoru muche solas ilore
To pleye toward beumound anuid hii were þeruore
Þe bailif hii bede ofte to graunti hor solas
To pleie & vndo þut ȝat ac vor noȝt it was
So þat an vewe wilde hinen a liȝt red þer of nome
& a dai after mete wiþ axes þuder come
& þat ȝat to hewe & to dasse þere
& suþþe þoru beumond to hare welle it bere
& subuenite sancti vaste gonne singe
As me deþ wan a ded man me wole to putte bringe
Willam þe spicer & geffray of hencsei þat þo were
Portreuen & nicole of kingestone þat was mere
Nome of þis clerkes & in prison caste
& nolde hom nouȝt deliueri ȝut þe chaunceler bed vaste
Þe clerkes were þo wroþe þe burgeis were þo bolde
& þretnede to nime mo & of hor wraþþe lute tolde
Þe verste þorsdai in lente þe burgeis were wel fers
& þe wule men were atte mete arerde tueie baners
& wende hom vorþ iarmed mid al hor poer þere
To defouli alle þe clerkes ar hii iwar were
As hii come aȝen alle halwen mid poer so strong
At seinte marie churche a clerc þe commun belle rong
Þis clerkes vp fram hor mete & to godes grace truste
& seie þat hii were issend bote hii þe bet hom wuste
Hii mette wiþ þis burgeis & bigonne to ssete vaste
I wounded þer was manion ac þe borgeis atte laste
Hii bigonne to fle vaste hom þoȝte longe er
So þat þe clerkes adde þe stretes sone iler
Þe bowiares ssoppe hii breke & þe bowes nome echon
Suþþe þe portereues house hii sette afure anon
In þe souþhalf of þe toune & suþþe þe spicerie
Hii breke fram ende to oþer & dude al to robberie
Vor þe mer was viniter hii breke þe viniterie
& alle oþere in þe toun & þat was lute maistrie
Hii caste awei þe dosils þat win orn abrod so
Þat it was pite gret of so muche harm ido
Þeruore þo þe king com & wuste suich trespas
Alle þe clerkes out of þe toun he drof vor þut cas
Ne vort after misselmasse hii ne come namore þer
Telle we nou of sir edward of wan we bigonne er
Sir edward toward lente toward þe march gan wende
So þat an axwednesdai al bi þe weste ende
To gloucetre he wende mid gret poer inou
& al ouer þe brugge to þe west ȝate he drou
& asailede þen toun ac þe barons wiþinne
Defendede hom so wel þat he ne miȝte hom winne
So þat of þe castel wiþinne com a route
Toward þe ȝat to helpe sir edward wiþoute
Ac grimbaud pauntefot aȝen hom sone com
& mid poer hom turnde aȝen & some of hom nom
Sir edward turnde in to þe med þo he ne sei oþer cas
& a ssip of teuskesburi þat þe abbodes was