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

                                
                                  Þe hondes gonnen at erne
                                
                                  In to þe schypes sterne
                                
                                  To schip he wolden ȝerne
                                  Line 908 
                                
                                  And cubert hem gan werne
                                
                                  And seyde kyng so þou haue reste
                                
                                  Clep nou forþ ofe þi beste
                                
                                  And sle we þyse hounden
                                  Line 912 
                                
                                  Here we henne founden
                                
                                  Þe houndes hye of laucte
                                
                                  An strokes hye þere kaute [strokes] r above the line MS.] 
                                
                                  Faste aȝen hye stode [folio 224b:2] 
                                  Line 916 
                                
                                  Aȝen duntes gode
                                
                                  Help nawht here wonder
                                
                                  Cubert hem broute al honder
                                
                                  He schedde of here blode [After here ḅọ MS.] 
                                  Line 920 
                                
                                  And makede hem al wode
                                
                                  To deþe he hem browte
                                
                                  Hys fader deþ he bowten
                                
                                  Of al þe kinges rowe
                                  Line 924 
                                
                                  Þer nas Bute fewe slawe [After nas ṇọṇ ḥỵ MS. Bute] te above line MS.] 
                                
                                  Bote hys sones tweye
                                
                                  By fore he sey deye
                                
                                  Þe king bi gan to grete
                                  Line 928 
                                
                                  And teres for to lete
                                
                                  Men leyden hem on bere
                                
                                  And ledde hem wel þere

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 50
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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