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

                                
                                  Her kyng hight Armyn of the lond, [Ermyne O. that O.] 
                                
                                  His wiffe was dede, I vnderstond; [M folio 127b] 
                                
                                  He had a doughter ffeyre and bryght,
                                
                                  Iosyan, that Maiden, she hight, [M. she] lady O.] 
                                  Line 396 
                                
                                  Her visage was white as floure, [as] lylly add. O.] 
                                
                                  There in ran a reed coloure; [a] the O.] 
                                  Line 398 
                                
                                  With Bent browes and eyen shene, [Bent] bryght O.] 
                                
                                  With her long as gold wire on the grene, [long] g, one letter blotted out before it M; om. O.Hyr nose was comely, hyr lyppes swete,Wyth a louely mouth and fayre fete,With tethe whyte & euen set,Hyr handes were swete as vyolet,Hyr body was gentyl withouten lacke,Wel shapen both body and backe. add. O.] 
                                
                                  With small handus and fyngurs longe, [With—and] Hyr handes were smal, hyr O.] 
                                
                                  No thinge of her was shapen wronge. [of] on O.] 
                                
                                  Where to shold I her discryve? [Where—her] What nedeth me hyr to O.] 
                                
                                  There was none so ffeire on lyve. [none so f.] neuer fayrer mayde O.] 
                                  Line 404 
                                
                                  Thes Marchandus gan to courte wend [wend] gone O.] 
                                
                                  And presentid the kyng Beues the hend; [B. the h.] with Beuys anone O.] 
                                
                                  He there of was glad and blithe [He th. of] Of hym the kynge O.] 
                                
                                  And thankyd the marchaundus meny sithe: [meny] an C. O.] 
                                  Line 408

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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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