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

                                
                                  He seyde hy serue ylle
                                  Line 1356 
                                
                                  Paynyms aȝen My wille
                                
                                  Ich was cristene som wyle
                                
                                  And þo were come in to þif yle
                                
                                  Sarazyns lodlike and blake
                                  Line 1360 
                                
                                  And dide me god forsake
                                
                                  Bi god on wam y leue
                                
                                  Þo he makeden me reue
                                
                                  To loke þis passage
                                  Line 1364 
                                
                                  For horn þat hys of age [folio 227a:2] 
                                
                                  He woneþ alby weste
                                
                                  God knyt myd þe beste
                                
                                  He slow Mid hys honde
                                  Line 1368 
                                
                                  Þe kyng of þise londe
                                
                                  And wyt hym men an hundred
                                
                                  Þer fore me þinkeþ wonder
                                
                                  Þat he ne comeþ fiȝycte [ne omit. MS.] 
                                  Line 1372 
                                
                                  God yeue hym þe miyȝte
                                
                                  Þat wynde hym driue
                                
                                  To bringen hem of liue
                                
                                  He slowen þe kyng mory
                                  Line 1376 
                                
                                  Hornes fader so stordy
                                
                                  Horn to water he sente
                                
                                  xij. children Myd hym wente
                                
                                  Þer mong was ayol þe gode
                                  Line 1380 
                                
                                  Myn owe child myn owe fode
                                
                                  He louede horn wel derne
                                
                                  And horn hym also ȝerne
                                
                                  Ȝyf horn hys hol and sounde
                                  Line 1384 
                                
                                  Ayol ne tyt no wounde
                                
                                  Bote ich nou se hem tweye
                                
                                  Iwys ich wolle deye
                                
                                  Knyt be swiþe blyþe
                                  Line 1388 
                                
                                  Mest of alle syþe
                                
                                  Ayol and horn yfere
                                
                                  Boþe he ben here
                                
                                  Þe knyt to hem gan steppe
                                  Line 1392 
                                
                                  And in armes cleppe

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 76
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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