The Story of England by Robert Manning of Brunne, A.D. 1338. Edited from mss. at Lambeth Palace and the Inner Temple, by Frederick J. Furnivall |
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Prudencia superat omne Robur.
Þen seide Merlyn vnto þe kynge,“Queyntise ouer-comeþ alle þynge.
“Strengþe ys god wyþ trauaille;
“Þer strengþe ne may, sleyght wil availle;
“Sleyght & connyng doþ many a chare,
“Bygynneþ þyng þat strengþe ne dar;
“Wyþ sleyght myght þou þe stones wynne,
“& in Bretaigne set þem inne,
“Þer þou ne schalt wyþ no strengthe
“Remewe hem a stones lengthe.
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