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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 coronacione Cadwaliny.

Penda seide he dirste naught,
ffor Cadwal & Osewy were al saught:
“But fonde i schal, by som queyntise,
“Of Cadwalyn to haue grauntise;

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“& ȝyf y may gete his leue
“Wyþ ȝow to holde, y wold hym greue.”
Þan fel hit at þe Whitsontyde,
Cadwalyn no lenger wolde byde;
At Londen set he his coronement.