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"Game of hondes he loued y nou, and of wÿlde best,
And hÿs forest and hÿs wodes, and mest þe nÿwe forest."

Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle

(concerning William the Conqueror)

Ed: Hearne, vol. ii. p. 375.