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24.
"Alfred thys noble man, as in the ger of grace he nom Eygte hondred and syxty and tuelue the kyndom.
Arst he adde at Rome ybe, and, vor ys grete wysdom, The pope Leo hym blessede, tho he thuder com, And the kynges croune of hys lond, that in this lond gut ys: And he led hym to be kyng, ar he kyng were y wys.
An he was kyng of Engelond, of alle that ther come, That vorst thus ylad was of the pope of Rome, An suththe other after hym of the erchebyssopes echon." "Clere he was god ynou, and gut, as me telleth me, He was more than ten ger old, ar he couthe ys abece.
Ac ys gode moder ofte smale gyftes hym tok, Vor to byleue other pie, and loky on ys boke.
So that by por clergye ys rygt lawes he wonde, That neuere er nere y mad to gouerny ys lond." ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER: _Johnson's Hist.

of E.L._, p.

25.
54.

_Reign of John_, 1216 _back to_ 1199 .-- _Subject of Christ's Crucifixion_.
"I syke when y singe for sorewe that y se When y with wypinge bihold upon the tre, Ant se Jhesu the suete ys hert blod for-lete For the love of me; Ys woundes waxen wete, thei wepen, still and mete, Marie reweth me." ANON.: _Bucke's Gram._, p.