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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Decepcio Pyctorum.
Whan þey had alle Karays y-highte,Bretons & Peytes help at her myghte.
Bassian he gan defye,
& wiþ foule wordes hym descrie.
So longe lasted þer manace,
To bataille þey comen in to place:
Bassan affied hym o þe Peytes,
In bataille þey knewe many sleightes,
Þer-fore his trist was on þeym more
Þan on alle þo þat þer wore.
ffor he god trist to þem hadde,
Richely often þeym he cladde;
& als þe partys gaf bataille,
Iusted & chased, & gon assaille,
Þys ilke Peytes were traytours,
Ageyn þe kynge turned y þe stours,
& wyþ Karays partye held,
& traysched þe kyng right in þe feld,
And slowe þe kyng, sire Bassian,
& alle his folk, ylk a man.
Þus þey traisched hym in nede,
Sire Bassian þat dide þem fede;
& Karays lyghtli wan þe lond;
Agayns hym no party he ne fond.
Karays gaf hem, for þer seruise,
Among þe Scottes gret ffraunchise;
So þat Pictes & þe Scottes kynde
Ar now al on, as men fynde.
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