Yet Tostie did the Norway king excite,
In battaile gainst his brother for to fight,
In which by Harrold vpon Stamford plaine,
Both Tostie and the Norway king were slaine.
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Stout Harrold in the field his death’s wound tooke,
With his two bretheren Girth and Leowin,
At Battaile abbey ’gainst the Norman duke:
For in ist iudgement then did heau’n begin
To plague this land for my detested sinne,