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Show PONI L B As pys kyng herof awoc, and of pys fyzte poge Hys yflares come to hym, & {o gret won of fyf An hym brogte pat wonder yt was, & namelyche vor pe weder wa {o colde po lyuede pe god man wel, pat Seyn Cutbert add ytold In Deuenyfiyre per after aryuede of Deney pre and tuenty flypuol men, all agen pe peys pe kynge's broper of Denemarch duc of oft was Oure kynge's men of Engelond mette hem by cas N URIGHE pat ech man knewe oper pat in tepynge were Andwufte fomdel of her ftat, xyf me pu vp hem bere So ftreyt he was, pat pey me ledde amydde weye ey Seluer, pat non man ne dorfte yt nyine, |pey he j feye Abbeys he rerde mony on, and mony ftudes ywys Ac Wyncheftrye he rerde on, pat nywe munitr ycluped ys Hys Iyf eyzte and tuenty ger in ys kynedom ylafte After ys dep he wos ybured at Wyncheftre atte lafte And fmyte per an batayle, and her gret duc flowe And eygte hondred & fourty men, & her caronye to drowe po kyng Alfred hurde pys, ys herte gladede po pat lond folc to hym come fo pycke fo yt myzte go ‘Of Somerfete, of Wylteflyre, of Hamteflyre perto Fuere as he wende, and of ys owe folc al fo So pat he adde poer ynou, and atte lafte hii come And a batayle at Edendone agen pe Deneys nome Sir Fobn Mandeville wrote us as he himfelf inform in the fourteenth century and his work, whic comprifing a relation of many differént particulars confequently required the ufe of many words an phrafes, may be properly fpecified in this place Of the following quotations, I have chofen the firft becaufe it thows in fome meafure the ftate of Ex And flowe to grounde, & wonne pe mayitre of th ropean {cience as well as of the Engli/h tongue ; an velde pe kyng & ys grete duke bygonne hem to zeld To pe kyng Alfred to ys wylle, and oftages toke the fecond Vorto wende out of ys lond, zyf he yt wolde loke And gut perto, vor ys loue, to auonge Criftendom Kyng Gurmund, pe hexte kyng, vorft per to come Kyng Alfred ys godfader was. & ybaptyfed ek pe wer pretty of her hexte dukes. and muche of pat folc per Kyng Alfred hem huld wyp hym tuelf dawes as h hende And fuppe he zef hem large xjftes, and let hy weande Hii, pat nolde Criftyn be, of lande flowe po And byzonde fee in France dude wel muche wo zut pe firewen come agen, and muche wo here wrogte Ac pe kyng Alfred atte lafte to flame hem euere broxte Kyng Alfred was pe wyloft kyng, pat long wa byuore Vor pey me fegge pe lawes bep in worre tyme vorlore Nas yt nogt fo hiis daye. vor pey he in worre were Lawes he made rygtuollore, and ftrengore pan e were "Clerc he was god ynou, and zut, as me tellep me Fe was more pan ten ger old, ar he coupe ys abece Ac ys gode moder ofte {male gyftes hym tok Vor to byleue oper ple, and loky on ys boke »S0 pat by por clergye ys ryzt lawes he wonde pat neuere er nere y mad, to gouerny ys lond And vor pe worre was {fo muche of pe luper Deneys Pe men of pys fulue lond were of pe worfe peys And robbede and flowe opere, peruor he byuonde pat per were hondredes in eche contreye of ys lond And in ech toune of pe hondred a tepynge were alfo And pat ech man wypoute gret lond in tepynge wer ydo becauf it is valuable for the force o thought and beauty of expreflion that lond, ne in many othere bezonde that no man may fee the fterre tranfmontane, tha is clept the fterre of the fee, that is unmevable and that is toward the Northe, that we clepe the lode fterre But men fee another fterre, th contrarie to him, that is toward the Southe, tha is clept Antartyk. And right as the fchip me taken here avys here, and governe hem be the lod fterre, right fo don {chip men bezonde the parties be the fterre of the Southe, the which fterre apperethe not to us. And this fterre, that is towar the Northe, that wee clepen the lode fterre, n apperethe not to hem. For whiche caufe, men ma wel perceyve, that the lende and the fee ben o rownde {chapp and forme For the partie of th firmamen {cheweth in o contree that {cheweth not in another contree And men may well preve be experience and fotyle compaflfement of wytt, tha zif a man fond paflfages be fchippes, that wolde g to ferchen the world, men myghte go be fchipp all about th world an aboven and benethen The whiche thing I prove thus, aftre that I hav feyn ban For I have been toward the parties of Bra an beholde the Afirolabre that the fterr that is clept the tranfmontayne, is 53 degrees highe And more forthere in Almayne and Bewme, i hathe 58 degrees. And more forthe toward th parties feptemtrioneles, it is 62 degrees of heghte and certyn mynutes For I my felf have mefure it by the Aftrolabre. Now {chulle ze knowe, tha azen the Tranfmontayne, is the tother fterre, tha is clept Antartyk; as I have feyd before. An th 2 fterres ne meeve nevere And be he turneth |