King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.

                                
                                  Ne nower in no stede
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  For folc þer was so meche [For] For for MS.] 
                                
                                  Hire sorwe and hire pyne
                                
                                  Nolde he neuere fine
                                
                                  Bi day ne bi nicte
                                  Line 272 
                                
                                  Wit him speke ne micte
                                
                                  In herte hye haue kare and wo
                                
                                  Þus he hire bi þoucte þo
                                
                                  He sende hire sonde
                                  Line 276 
                                
                                  Aylbrous to honde
                                
                                  And be he schold hire comen to [After be, erasure of one or two letters, perhaps bed.] 
                                
                                  And also scholde horn do
                                
                                  In to hire boure
                                  Line 280 
                                
                                  For hye gan to loure
                                
                                  And ysoude seyde
                                
                                  Wel riche was þe mede
                                
                                  And bed him comen swiþe
                                  Line 284 
                                
                                  For hye nas naut bliþ
                                
                                  Þe stiward was in herte wo
                                
                                  He ne wiste wat he micte do [folio 221a:2] 
                                
                                  Wat reymnyld wroute
                                  Line 288 
                                
                                  Mikel wonder him þoute
                                
                                  Abote horn þe ȝenge
                                
                                  To boure forto bringe
                                
                                  He þoucte on his mode
                                  Line 292 
                                
                                  Hit nas for none gode
                                
                                  He tok wit him anoþer
                                
                                  Þat was hornes wed broþer
                                
                                  Ayol he seyde ryt anon
                                  Line 296 
                                
                                  Þou shalt wit me to boure gon
                                
                                  To speke wit reymyld stille
                                
                                  And witen al hire wille
                                
                                  In hornes ylyche
                                  Line 300 
                                
                                  Þou schalt hire bi swike
                                
                                  Wel sore y me of drede
                                
                                  Þat hye wile horn mis rede [hye] y corr. out of o.]

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 16
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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