Roman de Brut. English

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Brut, by Layamon, Translated by Eugene MasonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: BrutAuthor: LayamonRelease Date: December 8, 2004 [eBook #14305]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRUT***E-text prepared by Ted Garvin, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distriubted Proofreading TeamLAYAMON'S BRUTAt Totnes Constantin the fair and all his host came ashore; thither came the bold man—well was he brave!—and with himtwo thousand knights such as no king possessed. Forth they gan march into London, and sent after knights over all thekingdom, and every brave man, that speedily he should come anon.The Britons heard that, where they dwelt in the pits; in earth and in stocks they hid them like badgers, in wood and inwilderness, in heath and in fen, so that well nigh no man might find any Briton, except they were in castle, or in burghinclosed fast. When they heard of this word, that Constantin was in the land, then came out of the mountains manythousand men; they leapt out of the wood as if it were deer. Many hundred thousand marched toward London, by streetand by weald all it forth pressed; and the brave women put on them men's clothes, and they forth journeyed toward thearmy.When the ...