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

                                
                                  Hye seyde ich nawt ne wepe
                                
                                  Bote ich schal her ich slepe
                                
                                  Me þoute in my metynge
                                
                                  Þat ich rod on fischinge
                                  Line 676 
                                
                                  To se my net ich keste
                                
                                  Ne Mict ich nowt lache
                                
                                  A gret fys ate furste
                                
                                  Mi net he makede berste
                                  Line 680 
                                
                                  Þe fys me so by laucte [Before fys f̣ịṣ MS.] 
                                
                                  Þat ich nawt ne kaucte
                                
                                  Ich wene ich schal forlese
                                
                                  Þe fys þat ich wolde chese
                                  Line 684 
                                
                                  God and seynte steuene
                                
                                  Quad horn terne þi sweuene
                                
                                  Ne shal ich neuere swike
                                
                                  Ne do þat þe mis like
                                  Line 688 
                                
                                  Ich nime þe to my nowe
                                
                                  To habben and to howe
                                
                                  For euerich wyȝte [folio 223b:1] 
                                
                                  Þarto my treuwþe ich plicte
                                  Line 692 
                                
                                  Miche was þat rewþe
                                
                                  Þat was at here trewþe
                                
                                  Reymyld weþ wel stille [weþ omit. MS.] 
                                
                                  And horn let teres spille
                                  Line 696 
                                
                                  He seyde lemman dere
                                
                                  Þou schalt more here
                                
                                  Þy sweuene ich schal schende
                                
                                  Þe fis þat brac þi seyne
                                  Line 700 
                                
                                  Hy wis hyt was som bleine
                                
                                  Þat schal us do som tene
                                
                                  Hy wis hyt worþ hy sene
                                
                                  Þe king rod bi his toure
                                  Line 704 
                                
                                  And horn was in þe boure
                                
                                  Fykenyld hadde envie
                                
                                  An seyde hise folye [In the margin hic accusatur horn.] 
                                
                                  Aylmere king ich wole warne
                                  Line 708 
                                
                                  Horn chil þe wile berne
                                
                                  Ich herde qware he seyde
                                
                                  And hys swerd leyde
                                
                                  To bringe þe of liue
                                  Line 712 
                                
                                  And take rimenyld to wiue

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 38
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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