Begiled is William, taken is and bondon.
To Inglond with him thei cam, and led him unto London.
We may take this occasion of pointing out the impropriety of quoting Robert de Brunne as Peter Langtoft. Mr. Tytler quotes this story of Jack Short upon Langtoft’s authority, which involves two serious errors, first, making Langtoft say what he did not say, and, secondly, giving the story on better authority than that on which it really rests, for, in this respect, Robert de Brunne is certainly inferior to Langtoft.
[P. 323], l. 67, And tus, etc.—Robert of Brunne has six lines of this fragment more than in the French MSS.
It is not to drede,
Traytour salle spede,
als he is worthi,
His lif salle he tyne,
And die thorgh pyne,
withouten merci.