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

                                
                                  There is no man, be goddus ore,
                                
                                  In cristondome, that I love more,
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                                  And he told me ffor thy, [We were felawes and certaynly O.] 
                                
                                  That his ffader hight sir Gye.' [That] He tolde me O.] 
                                
                                  'Sir,' said the palmer, 'that is he:
                                
                                  For goddus love, let me hym se!'
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                                  'Nay,' said Beues, 'it may not be so, [Nay s. B.] Beuys saide O.] 
                                
                                  For in message mvste I goo; [in] on O.] 
                                
                                  And wend thou forth to Englond ageyn, [And—forth] But go thou home O.] 
                                
                                  And helpe thou thy fader with all thy mayn, [thou] om. O. all thy] myght & O.] 
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                                  For whan I haue my message done,
                                
                                  I wyll speke with sir Beues sone [wyll] shal O. sir] om. O.] 
                                
                                  And tell hym of this tythand [of this t.] this, I vnderstande O.] 
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                                  And make hym hye in to Englond: [hye] hym add. O.] 
                                
                                  Par chaunce, ffor Beues is my ffrend, [ffor] om. O.] 
                                
                                  I shall with hym in to Englond wend!' [in] om. O.] 
                                
                                  'Sir,' said the palmer in his langage,
                                
                                  'Wheþer go ye in message?' [in] on O.] 
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                                  'To kyng Bradmond,' said Beues, 'I wend, [To—Beues] He saide: 'To kynge Bradmonde O.] 
                                
                                  He is my ffoo and not my ffrend.' [He] Whyche O.] 
                                
                                  Said the palmer: 'Yf thy wyll be, [The palmer saide O. thy] it your O.] 
                                
                                  Wilte thou let me thy letter see?' [Wilte—thy] Let me a lytel your O.] 
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Title: The romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun. Ed. from six manuscripts and the old printed copy, with introduction, notes, and glossary, by Eugen Kölbing ...
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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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