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

                                
                                  Wel fer her by weste
                                  Line 1216 
                                
                                  To seche my beste
                                
                                  My mete for to bidde
                                
                                  So hyt me by tidde
                                
                                  Þat fond ich horn child stonde
                                
                                  To scyppeward on stronde
                                  Line 1221 
                                
                                  He seyde he wolde agesce
                                
                                  To ryuen in westnesse
                                
                                  Þat scyp hym ȝede to flode
                                  Line 1224 
                                
                                  Myd me and horn þe gode
                                
                                  Horn was sech and ded
                                
                                  And for his loue me bed
                                
                                  To schipe with me þe ring
                                  Line 1228 
                                
                                  To Reymyld quene þe ȝeng
                                
                                  Ofte he me kuste
                                
                                  God ȝyue hys soule reste [folio 226b:1] 
                                
                                  Reymyld seyde ate ferste
                                  Line 1232 
                                
                                  Herte nou to berste
                                
                                  Horn ne worþ me na more
                                
                                  For wam hy pyne sore
                                
                                  Hye fel adoun on þe bed
                                  Line 1236 
                                
                                  Þer hye hauede knyues leyd
                                
                                  To slen hire louerd loþe
                                
                                  And hyre selue boþe
                                
                                  In þat hulke nyȝte [nyȝte omit. MS.] 
                                  Line 1240 
                                
                                  Bote horn come myȝte
                                
                                  Knyf to hyre herte hye sette
                                
                                  And horn hire gan lette
                                
                                  Hys schirt lappe he gan take
                                  Line 1244 
                                
                                  And wiped awey þat blake
                                
                                  Þat was on hys swere
                                
                                  And seyde quene so dere
                                
                                  Canst þou me nawt knowe
                                  Line 1248 
                                
                                  Ne am ich al þyn owe
                                
                                  Ich am horn of estnesse
                                
                                  In þyn armes þou me kusse
                                
                                  Hye clepten and hye kuste
                                  Line 1252 
                                
                                  Þe wile þat hem luste

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

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