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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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Nunciatum est hic Inperatory hoc Infortunium.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Nunciatum est hic Inperatory hoc Infortunium.

Þe Emperours hadde ful gode spies
Þat hadde knowynge on boþe parties:
Þey come & teld hym oþe eue byforn
‘Þat þe prisons erlik at morn
‘Vntil Paris schuld ben led;
‘To holde þem þare þey are a-dred.’
Þen bad þemperour take ten þousand,
To go þat nyght fer byfore hand,

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Rescours of þeym ȝyf þey might make,
& þe prisons fro þem take.
Þyse were þo þe Emperour sent,
Þat on þe nyght byfore went:
Sertorius, of Lybye kyng & sire,
Sire Ewander þe kyng of Syrie,
Carice, Catel, & sire Wylters,
Þyse were of Rome, kynges pers,
Þise were chosen by somouns
To make rescours of þe prisouns;
& þey toke þe wey at euen late,
& passed bifore our men þe gate;
& when þey in þat weye cam
Þat right forth to Parys nam,
In þat weye gan þey reste,
& priuely enbusched þer þey sey beste.