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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De Rege Vortapo.
In Vortapus time ryse SaxonesTo haue wonne þe lond eft sones:
Þer chaunce was god in þeir rysy[n]ge,
Gret skaþe þey dide vnto þe kynge.
His secounde ȝer his grace cam,
& hardinesse in herte he nam,
Huyred souders, & gaf þem wages,
& destruyed þe Saxons lynages,
Þat non durste in his lond abide
But þorow truage at terme & tyde.
ffour ȝer he hadde þe lond in pees;
At Londone he made his deces.
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