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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Hic diuisit Arthurus Prouincias, & dedit Ducibus
Comitibus, Baronibus, Militibus, & aliis, secundum
probitates suas. |
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Hic diuisit Arthurus Prouincias, & dedit Ducibus Comitibus, Baronibus, Militibus, & aliis, secundum probitates suas.
Arthur at Pasches, at Parys,He held his feste of gret[e] pris:
Til alle þo þorow hym had lorn,
Restored he als þey were byforn;
Riche or pore, gentil or þral,
Þat he þem aughte, he ȝald þem al.
After þat he was worthy,
He ȝald þer seruise largely:
To Kaye þat was his stywarde,
Aungowe he gaf hym til his part;
He gaf also sire Beduer,
Þat was of fe his boteler,
He gaf hym in fe all Normandie,
But þenne hit was cald Neustrie;
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And Mayne to Borel his cosyn;
He gaf giftes of honurs,
& landes & rentes, to vauasours.
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