The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun printed on parallel pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss mss., with the variants of the other texts: Edited with introduction, notes, and glossary by F. J. Amours |
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 | CHAPTER LVI. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun |  |
CHAPTER LVI.
Off a felloune mortalite
That fell wiþin Romys cete.
That fell wiþin Romys cete.
Thre hundreth ȝere foure scor and sevin
Befor at borne wes þe King of Hevin,
In to þe steid of consules
In Rome Tribuny chosin wes.
The Romanis wan þan a cete
That than wes callit Penestre,
And viii. citeis þan of weire
To Rome wes maid tributere.
Befor at borne wes þe King of Hevin,
In to þe steid of consules
In Rome Tribuny chosin wes.
The Romanis wan þan a cete
That than wes callit Penestre,
And viii. citeis þan of weire
To Rome wes maid tributere.
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Gret pestilens in to thai dais
In Rome fell, as Frere Martyne sais;
Within the myddis of the tovne
All þe erd þan opnit doune,
Sa vgsum, hidwise and sa fell
That throu þat ryft men mycht se hell,
And of þe stynk come of þat steid
Mony within the tovne wes deid.
Than in the cete wes a man
That callit be name wes Martyne than;
He till his goddis maid prayere
To gif him wit on what manere
And how that exaltatioun
Thai maid sa gret affectioun
Mycht maist hastely closit be,
And how to succour þat cete
Maist redy help wes or defens
For that felloune pestilens.
His god him ansuerd at the last,
And bad him ga and arme him fast,
And at that ryft in haist leip doune,
Gif þat he thocht to sauf þe tovne;
And at his ansuere he ȝeid sone
And hastely as he bad has done,
And fra he doune fell in þat gap
All þe ryft togidder craip,
And sa wes savit the cete
Fra stynk and fra mortalite.
In Rome fell, as Frere Martyne sais;
Within the myddis of the tovne
All þe erd þan opnit doune,
Sa vgsum, hidwise and sa fell
That throu þat ryft men mycht se hell,
And of þe stynk come of þat steid
Mony within the tovne wes deid.
Than in the cete wes a man
That callit be name wes Martyne than;
He till his goddis maid prayere
To gif him wit on what manere
And how that exaltatioun
Thai maid sa gret affectioun
Mycht maist hastely closit be,
And how to succour þat cete
Maist redy help wes or defens
For that felloune pestilens.
His god him ansuerd at the last,
And bad him ga and arme him fast,
And at that ryft in haist leip doune,
Gif þat he thocht to sauf þe tovne;
And at his ansuere he ȝeid sone
And hastely as he bad has done,
And fra he doune fell in þat gap
All þe ryft togidder craip,
And sa wes savit the cete
Fra stynk and fra mortalite.
This Brynnyus ȝit all tyme þen
Werrayit, with the Franche men,
The Romanis in thai samyn dais,
And thare of, as Frere Martyne sais,
A Roman saw a Franche man
Haiffand about his hals þan
Off gold all thrawin like a lase;
This Romane maid þan sic purchase
That anerly baith he and he
Togidder suld in lytis be,
And on na wyss thai suld þaim twyne
Till the tane mycht the tother wyn,
Slane or ȝoldin in batall,
Withoutin ony suppowell
Off ony, and as it fell þan
The Romane slew the Franche man,
And fra his hals in to that place
He tyt away the goldin laiss,
And put about his awne hals;
Fra thine he and his lynnage als
In thai landis callit were
The lasit Romanis mony ȝere.
Werrayit, with the Franche men,
The Romanis in thai samyn dais,
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A Roman saw a Franche man
Haiffand about his hals þan
Off gold all thrawin like a lase;
This Romane maid þan sic purchase
That anerly baith he and he
Togidder suld in lytis be,
And on na wyss thai suld þaim twyne
Till the tane mycht the tother wyn,
Slane or ȝoldin in batall,
Withoutin ony suppowell
Off ony, and as it fell þan
The Romane slew the Franche man,
And fra his hals in to that place
He tyt away the goldin laiss,
And put about his awne hals;
Fra thine he and his lynnage als
In thai landis callit were
The lasit Romanis mony ȝere.
| CHAPTER LVI. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun | |