Arthur - A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century by Unknown
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Camelerton_um_ Men nyst ho þe betere hadde;
in Cornubia._ But at þe last Certeyn Mordred is slain: Was Mordred & alle hys y-sclayn; 608 Arthur wounded, And Artho_ur_ y-bete wyþ wou_n_de, and carried to He Myght not stonde on grou_n_de; Avelon, or But on lyter ryÈt anon _Auelona .l. Was browÈt to Auelon_e_, 612 insula pomor_um_ Ã_a_t was a place fayr & Mury; Glastonia._ [Arthur is Buried At Glastonbury.] Glastonbury, Now hyt hooteþ Glastyngbury. where he dies, Ther Artho_ur_ þat worthy kyng Maked hys lyues endyng; 616 But for he skaped þ_a_t batell_e_ y-wys, Bretou_n_s & Cornysch sayeþ þus, "Ãat he leuyth Èut p_ar_de, And schall_e_ come & be a kyng aÈe." 620 At Glastyngbury on þe qweer and is buried Ãey made Arto_ur_ez tou_m_be þere, A.D. 542. And wrote wyth latyn vers þus, Hic iacet Arthurus rex quonda_m_ rex que futur_us_. 624 Thys was þus forsoþe ydone _Anno d_o_m_ini_ Ãe yheer after þe Incarnacione, qu_in_gente_simo_ Vyf hundred (.) fourty & two. _quadragesi_m_o Now saue vs alle fra woo 628 s_e_c_un_do._ Ih_es_u cryst, heuenly kyng, & grau_n_t vs alle hys blessyng; |
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