Wherevpon immediatlie he sent in commandement vnto the shiriffe of Notinghamshire, that going thither in his owne person, he should ruinat the said castell, & make it plaine with the ground.
Sidenote: The lords sweare to see the couenants performed.
For a child will lightlie promise, andlightlie he will breake his promise, and doo all things that his appetite giueth him vnto, and forgetteth lightlie what he hath doone.
But if I may boldlie saie what I thinke: he was a prince the most vnthankfullie vsed of his subiects, of any one of whom ye shall lightlie read.
Also the cleargie met him with procession, and such ioy appeared in the countenances of the people, vttering the same also with words, as the like not lightlie béene séene.
And yet for all this, they are not so farre distant in sunder, but that the goodman lieng in his bed may lightlie heare what is doone in each of them with ease, and call quicklie vnto his meinie if anie danger should attach him.
Thus king Ethelwulfe obteined a glorious victorie in so mightie a battell, as a greater had not beene lightlie heard of to chance within the English dominions.
He gaue a signe to the Galles to prepare themselues to battell, whervnto they lightlie agréed, and togither they went.
And, and often; full lightlie starts and skips, she lightly startes and skippes.
And to and fro full lightlie starts and skips: She ierkes hir leggs, and sprauleth with hir heeles; No tongue maie tell the solace that she feeles, 200 "I faint!
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