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

                                
                                  Þer com ate none
                                
                                  A geaunt swiþe sone
                                
                                  Armed of paynime [armed might be read ariued.] 
                                  Line 832 
                                
                                  And seyde in hys rime
                                
                                  Syte knytes by þe king
                                
                                  And lusteþ to my tydyng
                                
                                  Here beþ paynyms a ryued
                                  Line 836 
                                
                                  Wel mo þanne fyue
                                
                                  By þe se stronde
                                
                                  Kyng on þine londe
                                
                                  One þer of wille ich fyȝte
                                  Line 840 
                                
                                  Aȝen þi þre knyctes
                                
                                  Ȝyf þat houre felle þyne þre
                                
                                  Al þis lond schal vre be
                                
                                  Ȝyf þyne þre fellen houre
                                  Line 844 
                                
                                  Al þys lond þanne be ȝyure
                                
                                  To morwe schal be þe fyȝtyng
                                
                                  At þe sonne op rysyng
                                
                                  Þo seyde þe king þurston
                                  Line 848 
                                
                                  Cubert he schal be þat on
                                
                                  Ayld chyld þat oþer
                                
                                  Þe þrydde byryld hyse broþer
                                
                                  Hye þre beþ þe strengeste
                                  Line 852 
                                
                                  And in armes þe beste
                                
                                  At wat schal do to rede
                                
                                  Ich wene we ben alle dede
                                
                                  Cubert set on borde
                                  Line 856 
                                
                                  And seyde þis worde
                                
                                  Syre king hyt nis no ryȝcte [After Syre kyre MS. nis omit. MS.] 
                                
                                  On wiþ þre to fyȝcte
                                
                                  Ac wille ich alone
                                  Line 860 
                                
                                  With outen mannes mone
                                
                                  Mid my swerd wel heþe
                                
                                  Bringen hem alle to deþe
                                
                                  Þe kyng ros a morwe
                                  Line 864 
                                
                                  And hadde meche sorwe

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 46
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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