The romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun. Ed. from six manuscripts and the old printed copy, with introduction, notes, and glossary, by Eugen Kölbing ...

                                
                                  Syr Guy answered hym with reason
                                
                                  And sayd: 'Alas, for here is treason!
                                
                                  Yet wyl I, so god me mende,
                                  Line 181 
                                
                                  Here in my ryght my selfe defende!'
                                
                                  Eyther than other gan defye; [O folio 4a] 
                                
                                  Than pryked his stede gode syr Guy
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                                  And smote syr Murdour with a spere, [spe O.] 
                                
                                  That out of his sadel he gan hym bere.
                                
                                  'Traytour,' he sayde, '& cowarde vn|bolde,
                                
                                  Wenest þou, thoughe I be olde,
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                                  That I shulde be of the abasshed?'
                                
                                  Wyth that syr Guy his swerde out wrasted [O folio 4b] 
                                
                                  And shulde haue slayne that fals knyght,
                                
                                  Had nat socour come ful ryght.
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                                  Syr Murdurs men hyed them so,
                                
                                  Agaynst syr Guy they were ful thro.
                                
                                  Syr Guy dyd stoutly against them stande,
                                
                                  An hundred he slewe with his hande;
                                
                                  Had he be wel armed, i-wys,
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                                  Al the maystry had ben his.

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Here begynnyth a good tale of Bevys of Hamtoun, a good werriour.

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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1885, 1886, 1894.

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