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

                                
                                  Þou haft knicted sire horn
                                
                                  Þat in sodenne was hy born
                                
                                  Louerd he hys in londe
                                
                                  Of vs þat bi him stonde
                                  Line 532 
                                
                                  Mid spere and wit scelde
                                
                                  To fyten in þe felde
                                
                                  Let him of alle knicte
                                
                                  So hyt hys hise ricte
                                  Line 536 
                                
                                  Þo seyde þe king wel sone wis
                                
                                  Do horn as hys wil hys
                                
                                  Horn a down gan lycte
                                
                                  And makede hem to knicte
                                  Line 540 
                                
                                  Comen were þe gestes
                                
                                  Amorwe was þe feste
                                
                                  Reymyld was nowt þere
                                
                                  Hire þoute seue yere
                                  Line 544 
                                
                                  After horn hye sende
                                
                                  Horn to boure wende [Horn] Hor MS.] 
                                
                                  He nam his felawe in hys honde
                                
                                  And fonde Reymyld in boure stonde
                                
                                  Welcome art þou sire horn
                                  Line 549 
                                
                                  And ayol chil þe bi forn
                                
                                  Knict nou it his tyme
                                
                                  Þat þo sitte by me
                                  Line 552 
                                
                                  Yf þou be trewe of dedes
                                
                                  Do þat þou aire seydes
                                
                                  Do nou þat we speke
                                
                                  To wif þou schalt me take [folio 222b:2] 
                                
                                  Reymyld qwat horn be stille
                                  Line 557 
                                
                                  Hy schal don al þi wille
                                
                                  Hat first hyt mote by tyde
                                
                                  Mid spere þat ich ride
                                  Line 560 
                                
                                  Mi knicthede for to proue
                                
                                  Herft here ich þe wowe

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

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