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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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Pro Victoria eorum optulerunt solempnem sacrificium Diane diis suis.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Pro Victoria eorum optulerunt solempnem sacrificium Diane diis suis.

ffor ioie þey hadden þo batalle wonnen,
& Cesar twyes had ouer-ronnen,
To God þey highte to make a feste
Wyþ alle þe comme[n]s lest & meste.
Þe day he set of þe sacrifise,
Hys vow to holde wyþ fair seruise.
Cassibalon sende his messegers
ffor þe barons, knyghtes, & squiers,
Of his demeynes alle þe pytaille
Þat hadde hym serued in bataille,
Þat þey scholde alle to London come,
Vp peyne of forfeture of dome,
Wyf & child wiþ hem schold lede,
Þo þat halp hym in his nede,
& alle come wiþ herte glad,
In riche atyr, ryght as he bad.
Man & wyf, & children ȝonge
Þat couþe go, & speke wyþ tonge,

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Alle þey comen to þe cyte:
ffairer folk myght no man se;
& ilkaman after his auenaunt
Made offrynge, as was his haunt.