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

                                
                                  We beþ knictes yonge
                                
                                  Alto day by spronge
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                                  Of þe mestere
                                
                                  Hyt hys þe manere
                                
                                  Wyt som oþer knicte
                                
                                  For hys leman to fycte
                                  Line 568 
                                
                                  Her ich eny wif take
                                
                                  Þer fore ne haue ich þe forsake
                                
                                  To day so god me blisse [blisse] bịlisse MS.] 
                                
                                  Ich sal do pruesce
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                                  For þe lef wyt schelde
                                
                                  In mideward þe felde
                                
                                  And hy come to liue
                                
                                  Ich take þe wiue
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                                  Knict qwat reymyl þe trewe
                                
                                  Yich wene ich may þe leue
                                
                                  Haue nou here þis gold ring [þis] s above line MS.] 
                                
                                  He his god to þi dobbing
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                                  Ne hys non swilk vnder sonne
                                
                                  Þat man may offe konne
                                
                                  Hy graue hys on þe Ringe
                                
                                  Rymyld þi lef þe yenge
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                                  Þe ston him hys of swiche grace
                                
                                  Þat þou ne schal in none place
                                
                                  Of none doute fayle
                                
                                  Þer þou biginnes batayle
                                  Line 588 
                                
                                  And sire ayol þi broþer
                                
                                  He sal haue a noþer [Before sal ịṣ MS.] 
                                
                                  Horn god hy þe bi teche [Before teche ṭạḳẹ MS.] 
                                
                                  Wit morninde speche
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                                  God þe ȝyeue god endynge
                                
                                  An hol þe aȝen bringe
                                
                                  Þe knict hyre gan to kusse
                                
                                  And reymyld him blisse

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 32
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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