Wp/enm/Wāles

Wāles beeþ a contree in Brittaine. It haþ meni mounte and meni schep. Some pēple in Wales kvnnen þe Welſch tonge, whīl neeȝ alle speken Engliſsh. Wales ys a princypalite, þat er was bi Welſshe men sonderliche yweld; bute nou þe Prynce of Wales biþ þe Brittiſshe souveraines eldeſte livende sune, þe which þeu ſtondeþ siþen King Eduardes I time, whanne he makede his sone to Prince of Wales, þat was anno domini mccci.

Þe fane of Wales haþ a reed drake to charge. His signifyaunce is þe Brittes, Keltiſshe peple þat erſt helde Brittene. Þe same ys for reſovn þat a folkkouþ fable telleþ of a whit drake and a red fiȝtende, þat þe wyſe wicche Merlyn seiþ bitoknen þe Brittes and þe Saxes ſkirmende for þat lond þat nou is Engelond. And þe white drake signyfieþ þe Saxes, and þe rede drake sygnyfieþ þe Britiſshe folk, þennes comen þe Welſshe folke.