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

                                
                                  An heue and amorwe [folio 222a:1] 
                                
                                  For þe ich habbe sorwe [habbe] halbe MS.] 
                                
                                  Haue ich none reste
                                
                                  Slepe me ne liste
                                  Line 424 
                                
                                  Leste me þis sorwe
                                
                                  Lyue hy nawt to morwe
                                
                                  Horn þou schalt wel swiþe
                                
                                  My longe sorwe liþe
                                  Line 428 
                                
                                  Þou schalt wit uten striue
                                
                                  Habben me to wiue
                                
                                  Horn haue on me rewþe
                                
                                  And plyct þou me þi trewþe
                                  Line 432 
                                
                                  Horn child him bi þoute
                                
                                  Wat he speke myȝte
                                
                                  God qwad horn þe wisse
                                
                                  And ȝyue þe ioye and bliffe [þe] þ MS. Before bliffe ḅịḷḷ MS.] 
                                  Line 436 
                                
                                  Of þine hosebonde
                                
                                  Whare he be in londe
                                
                                  Ich am hy bore to lowe
                                
                                  Such a wyf to owe
                                  Line 440 
                                
                                  Ich am bore þralle
                                
                                  And fundlinge am bi falle
                                
                                  Ich am nawt of kende
                                
                                  Þe to spouse welde
                                  Line 444 
                                
                                  Hit were no fayr wedding
                                
                                  Bituene a þral and þe king
                                
                                  Reymyld gan to mys lyke
                                
                                  And sore forto syke [And] d above line.] 
                                  Line 448 
                                
                                  Armes hye nam boþe
                                
                                  And doune he fel yswowe
                                
                                  Horn hire ofte wende [Hor MS.] 
                                
                                  And in hys armes trende
                                  Line 452 
                                
                                  Lemman qwat he dere
                                
                                  Þin herte gyn þou to stere
                                
                                  And help þou me to knicte [helþ] heþ MS.] 
                                
                                  Oppe þine myȝte
                                  Line 456 
                                
                                  To my louerd þe kinge
                                
                                  Þat he me ȝyue dobbinge

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 24
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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