And Robart Albon hath spokyn with the English captayns of the Kynges rebellys ther, part of theym that arn takyn; and Robart Albon and his company seith that ther wer takyn and slayn to the noumbre of vij^xx.
Thornham men labouryng all nyght on Sunday nyght last was, and so have slayn it, and brought to lande; upon the whiche your said debite hath ben ther as yister day, and seysed my lordes part therof; wherof the puple was glad it shuld so be.
Vaspasian was so humble that whan Nero was slayn alle the peple cryed for to haue hym emþour/ and many of his frendes cam & prayde hym that he wold take hit vpon hym/ so at the last he was constrayned to take hit vpon hym.
He hath a thousand slayn this pestilence: And, maister, er ye come in his presence, 680 Me thinketh that it were necessarie For to be war of swich an adversarie: Beth redy for to mete him evermore.
Was noon so hardy that wente by the weye That with hir dorste rage or ones pleye, But-if he wolde be slayn of Simkin With panade, or with knyf, or boydekin.
For slayn is man right as another beste, And dwelleth eek in prison and areste, 1310 And hath siknesse, and greet adversitee, And ofte tymes giltelees, pardee!
No wight ne mighte hir handes of it arace, Til she was slayn right in the selve place.
Hath ther nat many a noble wyf, er this, And many a mayde y-slayn hir-self, allas!
Of latter date, of wyves hath he red, 765 That somme han slayn hir housbondes in hir bed, And lete hir lechour dighte hir al the night Whyl that the corps lay in the floor up-right.
They seiden, 'lord, the knight ne hath nat slayn His felawe; here he standeth hool alyve.
Alas, what shall I moreover say for the good swerde; many sarasyns have been destroyed by the; thynfydels and myscreaunts have ben slayn by the; the name of God is exalted by the; by the is made the path of sauvement!
And alle the hondred crysten men that were wyth Roulland in thys rencountre were dolorously slayn and put to deth, except onely Baulduyn and Thyerry, whych for fere fled into the wode.
But after that Rolland had slayn kyng Marfuryus, he was sore oppressed and in suche wyse deteyned, that wyth four grete speres he was smyten and wounded mortally, and beten wyth stones, and hurte wyth dartes and other shotte mortally.
King William bithought him alsoe of that Folke that was forlorne, And slaynalso thoruz him In the bataile biforne.
And ther as the bataile was, An abbey he lite rere Of Seint Martin, for the soules That there slayn were.
Sir, sith that it may lyken you, Though that I shulde be slayn right now, I shal don your comaundement, For therto have I gret talent.
And be dyvers other thyngs I know, if thei mytz aben kawt, other [either] they xuld aben slayn or sor hurt.
Wherfore the seyd William, hese seyd clerkes and servauntz, by longe tyme aftyr were in gret and intolerable drede and fere by the sayd maffaisours and felons to be slayn and mordered.
Ther-to desyr so brenningly me assaylleth, That to ben slayn it were a gretter Ioye To me than king of Grece been and Troye!
Thanne if I ne hadde spoken, as grace was, Ye wolde han slayn your-self anoon?
The constabill wes slayn richt thar: And fra he fell, the remanand Fled quhar thai best mycht to warrand: Thai durst nocht byde na mak debat.
And quhen men tald him the tithand, How Schir David had slayn his men, 220 His hors in hy he askit then, And bad his men all mak thame yhare In-to gret hy, for he wald fare To bargane with his enymys.
C That wesslayn thair in-to the ficht (S), which does not seem to explain the context.
Bath men and horse slayn left thai thar, And held thair way in full gret hy, Nocht all to-gidder bot syndrely, And thai that war ourtane war slayne.
In litill space he left lyand Sa feill, that the upcom wes then Dittit with slayn hors and men; 168 Swa that his fayis, for that stopping, Micht nocht cum to the up-cummying.
And thai that war within the wayn Lap out belif, and soyn has slayn Men of the castell that war by.
Bot mycht no worschip thar avale That tym, for ilkan war slayn thar; For Sarasynys sa mony war That thai war tuenty neir for ane.
Thai war slayn doune so halely, That thar weill neir eschapit nane; Thai servit thame in sa gret wayne With scherand swerdis and with knyvis, 455 That weill neir all lesyt thar livis.
Tharfor that bargane callit was "The Chaptour of Mytoune;" for thare Slayn sa mony prestis ware.
Bot thar fell fayis sa can assaill, That thar mycht no worschip availl That thai ne war slayn evirilkane 155 So cleyn, that thar eschapit nane.
Yet saw I more, how in right pitous cas For Antony was slayn Cleopatras.
Than mene I that I wolde, wonder fayn, That alle they were shamfully y-slayn That menen aught ayeines love amis.
He that had a mayd to dame, The lamb that slayn [for sinners] was, Shall shelde me from gostly blame; For erthly harm is goddes grace.
The original has: 'And the lambe that slayn was'; imperfect.
Murdred and slayn with wordes sharpe and kene, Giltlees, god wot, of al maner trespas, And lye and blede upon this colde grene.
Buserus slew his gestes, and he was slaynof Hercules his geste.
For trewe Adon was slayn with the bore Amid the forest, in the grene shade; For Venus love he felte al the sore.
Jhesu, for the lowe of the, Chylder wer slayn grett plente In Bedlem, that fayer cyte, A solis ortus cardine.
After y^{t} slaynwas Golyas, By me the sawter than made was.
Ne hadde he be reskued than, He hade slayn him with his honde.
That have done me distruccion̄ And grete disherytaunce 960 And eke slayn my men w«i»t«h» wronge.
And were not they to blame, I say also, That were aboute hym, his owne servants of trust, To suffre hym slayn of his mortall fo?
And therfor, quhen Cesar was slayn by the Sanatouris, Octavyan had revengeit his deth, and rang passabilly at the byrth of our salviour, quhen the starn of Bethliam apperit.
About the fyr bruschit the blud so red, A hundreth men was slayn in to that sted.
Besyd Cokpull full feyll fechtand thai fand; 1815 Sum drownyt was, sumslayn wpon the sand; Quha chapyt was, in Ingland fled away.
At this jornay twenty thousand thai tynt, Drownyt and slayn be sper and suerdis dynt.
Sexté was slayn apon the tothir sid, And fyve off Scottis, so bauldly thai abid.
Also on Thursday next after Cristemasse was a man slayn, by whom no man woot, nor what he is that was slayn no man knowe, his face is so mangled.
Grace de Dewe; and there is slayn on thys partyes the Lords Clynton[57.
And thei saye thei will carie hem forth to Ey preson, and as many as thei may gete more of your men and tenaunts, that thei may know that owe yow good wyll or hath be to you ward, thei be thret to be slayn or presoned.
As for tydyngis in this countre, Herry Ingloses men have slayn ij.
Orlyans, {8} slayn yn the vigille of Seynt Clement by Raulyn Actovyle of Normandie, yn the yeer of Crist M^l.
See how her tungge made here slayn and foule wurdys broghte here to payn[1583].
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