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

                                
                                  Aylbrous and ayol him myde
                                  Line 304 
                                
                                  Boþe he to boure ȝede
                                
                                  Opon ayol childe
                                
                                  Reymyld was naut wilde
                                
                                  Hye wende horn hit were
                                  Line 308 
                                
                                  Þat hye hadde þere
                                
                                  Hye sette him on bedde
                                
                                  With ayol he gan wedde
                                
                                  In hire armes tweye
                                  Line 312 
                                
                                  Ayol he gan leye
                                
                                  Horn hye seyde so longe
                                
                                  Ich habbe y loued þe stronge
                                
                                  Þou schalt me treuþe plyȝte
                                  Line 316 
                                
                                  In mine honde wel ryhcte
                                
                                  Me to spouse welde
                                
                                  And ich þe louerd to helde
                                
                                  And seyde in hire here
                                  Line 320 
                                
                                  So stille so it were
                                
                                  Ne tel þou more speche [tel] te MS.] 
                                
                                  Sum man þe wile bi keche
                                
                                  Þi tale bi gyn to lynne
                                  Line 324 
                                
                                  For horn nis nouth her inne
                                
                                  Horn his fayr and riche
                                
                                  Be we naut yliche
                                
                                  Fayror honder ribbe
                                  Line 328 
                                
                                  Þan ony man þat libbe
                                
                                  Þei horn were honder molde
                                
                                  Oþer elles qwere e wolde
                                
                                  Hanne ouer a þousond mile [folio 221b:1] 
                                
                                  Ne schulde ich him bigile
                                  Line 333 
                                
                                  Reymyld hire bi wende
                                
                                  Þe stiward sone he schende
                                
                                  Aylbrous þu foule þef
                                  Line 336 
                                
                                  Ne worstu me neuere lef
                                
                                  Wend out of mi boure
                                
                                  Wyt michel mesauenture
                                
                                  Heuele ded mote þou fonge
                                  Line 340 
                                
                                  And on heuele rode onhonge
                                
                                  Spak ich nou with horn
                                
                                  His he nowt me biforn

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 18
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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