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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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In tempore ffortygerny venerunt Saxones primo in Anglia.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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In tempore ffortygerny venerunt Saxones primo in Anglia.

Whyle þat fforteger þus regnede riche,
Þre schypes aryued at Sandwiche
Wyþ fair folk & wel y-dight,—
Hengist & Hors þer maistres hight;—
Of fair stature wyþouten lak,
& a selcouþ speche þey spak.
Þis ffortyger þat held þonour,
At Caunterbury he made soiour;
To þe kyng men tydynge tolde,
‘Þat a fair folk, wyþ faces bolde,
‘At Sandwyche late gonne aryue;
‘So faire y-schape were non alyue.’
Þen seyde þe kyng, “ȝyf swylk be comen,
“& peysibly þe hauene han nomen,
“In pes lat þem take þer rest,
“& wyþ my pes to do þer best,
“And ȝyf þey speke wyþ me in pes,
“& right so wende als þey ches.”