The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun printed on parallel pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss mss., with the variants of the other texts: Edited with introduction, notes, and glossary by F. J. Amours |
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 | CHAPTER XXXI. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun |  |
CHAPTER XXXI.
Heir may ȝe reid in þis ilk pece
Off a weir þat befell in Grece.
Off a weir þat befell in Grece.
Fourtene hundreth ȝeris beforne
And xii. fully or God wes borne,
A fell weir raise, as Orose sais,
And a dispitious in þai dais
Betuix þaim wonnand in þe Cretee,
That is ane yle in to þe see,
And þe folkis of Athenys,
That in to Grece a gret toune is.
Thare slauchter happinnit rycht cruell,
One baith þe halffis ferss and fell;
Bot þe Grekis soucht sa fast
Quhill þe Grekis at þe last
Maist part in þat batall qwite
Wer tane, or slane, or discomfit.
The gentill menis sonis þare,
That airis to þare faderis ware,
Thai tuke in þat weir, but dout,
And all þir syne þai put quyt out.
A Mynataur, a quhether þat he
A felloun man or best suld be,
I can nocht tell ȝow certanely,
Sen all þai childer halely
Thai gert deliuerit be him till
For to be suellyit at his will,
And with þe best wer etyne þare.
The Greikis þus reboitit ware.
And xii. fully or God wes borne,
A fell weir raise, as Orose sais,
And a dispitious in þai dais
Betuix þaim wonnand in þe Cretee,
That is ane yle in to þe see,
And þe folkis of Athenys,
That in to Grece a gret toune is.
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One baith þe halffis ferss and fell;
Bot þe Grekis soucht sa fast
Quhill þe Grekis at þe last
Maist part in þat batall qwite
Wer tane, or slane, or discomfit.
The gentill menis sonis þare,
That airis to þare faderis ware,
Thai tuke in þat weir, but dout,
And all þir syne þai put quyt out.
A Mynataur, a quhether þat he
A felloun man or best suld be,
I can nocht tell ȝow certanely,
Sen all þai childer halely
Thai gert deliuerit be him till
For to be suellyit at his will,
And with þe best wer etyne þare.
The Greikis þus reboitit ware.
The Lauypittis and þe Thessalytis,
In Grece baith þai landis lyis,
In þat tyme vsit gret travale
Amangis þaim self in gret batall.
In till a buke þat Palaphat
Of his vncertane wondris wrait,
He sais þe Lauypitis trowis haill
And tellis als for certane taill
That Thessalonyis suld be
Ypocentauris in a degre,
That is for to say properly
Baith man and horss in a body;
And supposs þai sik wenyng had
That ȝit sic best wes neuer maid;
Bot for at þai saw sa thik
Thir men on horss in batall prik,
Vther trouth haif þai nane,
Bot horss and men samyn wer ane.
In Grece baith þai landis lyis,
In þat tyme vsit gret travale
Amangis þaim self in gret batall.
In till a buke þat Palaphat
Of his vncertane wondris wrait,
He sais þe Lauypitis trowis haill
And tellis als for certane taill
That Thessalonyis suld be
Ypocentauris in a degre,
That is for to say properly
Baith man and horss in a body;
And supposs þai sik wenyng had
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Bot for at þai saw sa thik
Thir men on horss in batall prik,
Vther trouth haif þai nane,
Bot horss and men samyn wer ane.
| CHAPTER XXXI. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun | |