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

                                
                                  Byrild him gan preye
                                  Line 792 
                                
                                  Þat he scholde seye
                                
                                  Wat hys name were
                                
                                  And qwat he wolde þere
                                
                                  Cuberd he seyde ich hote
                                  Line 796 
                                
                                  Comen fram þe bote
                                
                                  Fer fram bi weste
                                
                                  To chesen mine beste
                                
                                  Byryld him gan ryde
                                  Line 800 
                                
                                  And tok hym by þe bridel
                                
                                  Wel be þou knict here founde
                                
                                  Whyt me bileuest a stounde
                                
                                  So ich ne mote sterue
                                  Line 804 
                                
                                  Þe kyng þou schal serue
                                
                                  Ne sey ich neuere on lyue
                                
                                  So fayr knyt aryue
                                
                                  Cubert he ledde to halle
                                  Line 808 
                                
                                  And a doun gan falle
                                
                                  He sette hym on knewlyng
                                
                                  And grette wel þe gode king
                                
                                  Þo seyde byrild wel sone
                                  Line 812 
                                
                                  Whit hym þou hauez to done [þou omit. MS. hauez] z above line MS.] 
                                
                                  Tak hym þi lond to werye
                                
                                  Ne schal hym noman derye
                                
                                  He hys þe fayreste man
                                  Line 816 
                                
                                  Þat euere in þis londe cam
                                
                                  Þo seyde þe king so dere
                                
                                  Wel come be he here
                                
                                  Go nov byryld swyþe
                                  Line 820 
                                
                                  An mak him glad and blyþe
                                
                                  Wan þou farest awowen
                                
                                  Tak hym þine glouen
                                
                                  Þer þou hauest Mynt to wyue
                                  Line 824 
                                
                                  Awey he schal þe dryue
                                
                                  Hyt was at cristemesse [folio 224a:2] 
                                
                                  Naþer more ne lesse
                                
                                  Þe king hym makede a feste
                                  Line 828 
                                
                                  Wyt hyse knyctes beste

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 44
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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