However, other texts written at approximately the same period, the anonymous poem Amis and Amiloun and Robert of Brunne's two major works, Handlyng Synne and The story of England, reveal significant differences since Mannying preserves impure graphic rhymes and the forms of WAY with the first element unchanged in spelling; cf.: 10)
Yyf [thorn]ou herdyst a fals [thorn]yng or lay[thorn] [thorn]at were spoke ayens [thorn]e fey[thorn] (HS: 563-564) Pers mette, vp-on a day, A pore man, by [thorn]e way..