Poems Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and Others in the Fifteenth Century

tz ELINOURE AND JUG A.
To knowe, or wheeler we muste waile agayne,
Or wythe oure fallen knyghtes be menged onne the
plain.
Soe sayinge, lyke twa levyn-blasted trees,
Or twayne of cloudes that holdeth stormie rayne ;
Theie moved gentle oere the dewie mees 1*, 45
To where Seyncte Albons holie shrynes remayne.
There dyd theye fynde that bothe their knyghtes were
flayne,
Distraughte theie wandered to swollen Rudbornes
fyde,
Yelled theyre leathalle knelle, sonke ynn the waves, and
dyde.
14 meeds, 15 distracted.
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