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

                                
                                  Ich haue hire yloked euere
                                
                                  And þou ne comest neuere
                                
                                  Reymyld ros of benche
                                  Line 1144 
                                
                                  Þe knyȝtes for to schenche
                                
                                  An horn hye ber on honde
                                
                                  As hyt was lawe of londe
                                
                                  Hye drank of þe bere
                                  Line 1148 
                                
                                  To knyt and to squiere
                                
                                  And horn set on þe grunde
                                
                                  Hym þoute he was bounde
                                
                                  He seyde quen so hende
                                  Line 1152 
                                
                                  To meward gyn þou wende
                                
                                  Schenk hus Myd þe furste
                                
                                  Þe beggeres beþ of þerste
                                
                                  Þe horn hye leyde a doune
                                  Line 1156 
                                
                                  And fulde hem of þe broune
                                
                                  A bolle of one galun
                                
                                  Hye wende hye were a glotoun [were corr. out of iaere MS.] 
                                
                                  Nym þou þe coppe
                                  Line 1160 
                                
                                  And drinkyt al oppe
                                
                                  Sey ich neuere ich wene
                                
                                  Beggere so bold and kene
                                
                                  Horn tok þe coppe hys fere
                                  Line 1164 
                                
                                  And seyde quen so dere
                                
                                  No drynk nel ich bite
                                
                                  Bote of one coppe wite
                                
                                  Þou wenst ich be a beggere
                                  Line 1168 
                                
                                  For gode ich am a fyȝssere
                                
                                  Hy come fram by weste
                                
                                  To syȝen an þi feste
                                
                                  My net hys ney honde
                                  Line 1172 
                                
                                  In a wel fayr ponde
                                
                                  Hyt hat hy be here
                                
                                  Al þis seue ȝere

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 64
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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