Arthur: A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
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Arthur: A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
Arthurian romances; Romances, English
Tyl Maxymyan co[_n_]queryd hyt w_y_t_h_ honde, 512
And called hyt lyte bretayne þan,
So hyȝt þis lond þat he coom fram;
Little Britain For p_er_petuell_e_ Mynde of grete Bretayne
is called after He called hyt lyte Bretayne, 516
Great Britain. Þat Men schulde kepe in Mynde & wytt
How þis lond conqueryd hytt;
For Walsch_e_ Men beþ Bretou_n_s of kynde--
Know þat well_e_ fast on Mynde-- 520
Englisch_e_ men beþ Saxoynes,
Þat beþ of Engistes Soones;
There-fore þe walsch man Bretou_n_
Seyþ & clepeþ vs "Sayson" 524
[ Þat ys to seye vpon a reess,
"Stynking Saxou_n_, be on pees." ]
How the Welshmen And seyþ (.) "taw or (.) peyd Sayson brou_n_t"[6]
call the English Whan he ys wroth (;) or ellys drou_n_ke;
"stinking Hauyng Mynde of Engystis Men
Saxons." Þat w_y_t_h_ gyle sclow þeyre kyn: 528
At þe place of þe Stonehenge
Ȝut þey þenkeþ for to venge:
And þat hyt neuere be so,
Seyþ a Pater noster more to. 532
Pater noster.
Arthur is Now turne we to oure labo_ur_
preparing to And lat vs speke of Arthour:
cross the He cast on herte sone
mountains to After þat to go to Rome, 536
Rome, And spak of Passage & hys wey
Forth ouer Mou_n_t Ioye.
when he hears And sone after vpon an owr
of Mordred's He horde of Mordred the treto_ur_ 540
treachery; That hadde all_e_ þis loud on warde--
[Of Mordred's Treachery and Arthur's Return.]
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