Note 500 — Chapter VIII · THE EARLY YEARS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.[497] A.D. 1028–1051.
Reading edition
Chron. Petrib. 1087. “He wæs milde þam godum mannum þe God lufedon, and ofer eall gemett stearc þam mannum þe wiðcwædon his willan.” The former clause is rather oddly altered in the version of Robert of Gloucester (p. 374);
“To hem þat wolde his wylle do, debonere he was and mylde,
And to hem þat hym wyþ seyde strong tyrant and wylde.”