Therfore kyng egbertus fought ayenst hem at carrum / and was chaced / At Tolouse a damoysel of twelue yere old resseyued our lordes body on esterday and fasted afterward six monethes contiunelly to brede and to water / and
our tyme couetyse & pryde hath so chaun∣ged al thynge in englond that thynges that were yeue to Ab∣bayes in old tyme ben now more wasted in glotonye and outra¦ge of owners / than in sustenaunce and helpe of nedy
the same mylde Edmond come edwyn the worst and edgar the best / ¶ Capitulum nonumEDgar yong of sixtene yere old was made kynge & / regned after his broder a sixten yere / in the twellifth yere of him
on seynt odoes tombe / and despysed his soule and spake / to hym in this manere / thou worste old man / thy soule is a goo late ynow / thou hast made a place to a bett than
¶ After the twellyfthe Iohan the fyfth Benet was pope thre monethes / ¶ Nychoforus kynge of grece was an old man / and drad lest his owne sonnes wold put hym oute of his kyngdome / and demed that
ouer the danes / kynge canutus dyed at Septon that is shaftesbury / & is buryed at wynchestre in the old abbay / ¶ Henricus libro sexto / Me spekyth of thre grete dedes that he dyd / the fyrst
of Shirborn was dede & he hadde longe tyme thought to oone and ioyne that bisshopryche to his owne by old promysses of the quene / He held longe tyme these Bysshopryces soo ioyned with thre countrees that longed therto
girmū vpō the brynk of the ryuer wyre / That yere malcolyn destroyed so nor¦thūberlond that he slew all the old mē & feble / & made the strong boonde for reuerence / soo that vnneth ony was hows in
had wyst she wold haue sette lytel therby / In the mene tyme yet the bisshop thought that nothyng is more vngracio{us} than a louyng old mā / and withstode as he myght for reuerence of his owne state /
and his broder Robert wente in to Scotlande / his nauey was nygh al adreynt & his hoost marryd with old and with honger. Malcolyn cam ayenst hym with ade¦lyng and made pees by medyacion / Soo that malcolyn sholde
In a tyme his monkes wente in the more chirche that he hadde buylded / and he sawe that the old chirche was destroyed that saynt oswald hadde bylded and wepte ful soore teres / He was in fayr maner
kyng wyll∣iam the conquerours neuewe in his systres syde deyde / and his sonne Rychard a childe of seuen yere old was Erle after hym / Ancelm made a coūseyll at london and put doune many abbotes and forbade setting
/ therfor men trowyd that he deyde withoute childrē though he hadde wedded mold whan she was but fyue yere old Henryes doughter kyng of englond / At last he reputed and re∣sygned vp the ryghtes of hooly chirche frely
oute the brayne of the heed deyd of the stenche / he hadde eten of a lamprey whyle he was old and feble and he loued it alwey though it gre¦ued hym euermore / The kynges body was brought in
hym to submytte hym to his grace / ¶This was the fyrst pope that dwellyd with the Cardynals in the old cyte / ¶ The kyng of Scotland dyed and neyghe alle the lordes of Englonde· In the moneth of
the kyng in duche speche in this maner and sayde / Good old kynge And than he told forth his tale in this maner / Cryst greteth the and his moder myld and Iohan baptist and peter and comman∣deth hyghly
fyrste daye that he was made hyte monke to his lyues ende / In a tyme by the wey an old lene womman met hym and axyd yf it were sothe that he ete no maner flessh / It is
that passed so ther sped more graciously than they that come home ageyn to her foule ma¦ner of liuyng of old tyme / soo cryst our kyng vseth wel the euil dedes of mankynde whyle he takyth the erthly Ierusalem
Men of the countrey aboute long tyme therafter myghte vnnethe leue that that cyte was take / and that for old prophecye that sayde that that Cyte myght not be take but by an angel / but the enemyes entred
quoth morys for thou hast almoost made a ful verse / As I see quoth the knyght / thou art old and slowe / Therfore ende in this maner / Destruet hoc regnū rex regum duplici plaga That is kyng