Thus corne lo ! Engelond into Normannes honde

And the Normanes ne couthe speke tho tote her owe speche And speke french as dude atom, and her chyldren dude also teche ; So that heyraen of this lond that of her blod corne Holdeth aile thulke speche that hii ofhem nome,

Ac lowe men holdeth to englyss and to her Kunde speche gut. (Robert of Gloucester Cluonide, éd. Herirne, p. 364.'^