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

                                
                                  Than som bad drawe hym thorowe the Cite, [Than] om. O.] 
                                  Line 1247 
                                
                                  And som bad hange hym on a tree,
                                
                                  And euer stode Beues still and herd [And—and] Styl stode Beuys and them O.] 
                                
                                  All the treason, how it fferd. [Of al that O. ffarid M; fared C.] 
                                
                                  'Sir kynge,' he said, 'is it thy rede, [is it thy] it is no O.] 
                                
                                  To Iuge me to a doggis dede? [to] om. O.] 
                                  Line 1252 
                                
                                  A knyght I am, as well as thou, [you O.] 
                                
                                  There fore take thy counsell nowe [your O.] 
                                
                                  And graunte me armour and stede,
                                
                                  Sworde and spere at my nede, [Shelde O. at my] gode at O.] 
                                  Line 1256 
                                
                                  Seker helme and stalworth sheld, [Sure O.] 
                                
                                  And brynge me save in to the ffeld,
                                
                                  And arme thy men lesse and more,
                                
                                  Sixte thousand yf they wore, [hundred O.] 
                                  Line 1260 
                                
                                  And let me dye in batell right, [Than O.] 
                                
                                  As maner is of a doughty knyght!' [noble O.] 
                                
                                  The Sarzins then cried all, [Than the Sarazyns O.] 
                                
                                  And to theire kyng can they call [And to th.] Unto the O.] 
                                  Line 1264 
                                
                                  And said, 'He shall thy men down fold, [And] They O.] 
                                  Line 1265 
                                
                                  Yf thou graunte hym this batell bold: [Yf] that add. O. this] om. O.] 
                                
                                  Graunte hym preson thorouȝ oure rede [thorouȝ] by O.] 
                                
                                  And hold hym there, till he be dede, [And h. h.] Let hym be O.] 
                                
                                  For in youre preson are dragons two [be O.] 
                                
                                  And oþer wormes meny moo, [M folio 141b]  [And] Wyth O.] 
                                
                                  And were he in preson brought, [And] om. O. in] into your O.] 
                                  Line 1271 
                                
                                  Vnto none of day levith he nought. [of—he] he lyueth O.] 
                                
                                  Brynge hym theder, as we can, [as we c.] they al saide then O.] 
                                  Line 1273 
                                
                                  And not in ffeld amonge thy men!' [thy] your O.] 
                                
                                  Than be-spake kynge Bradmond: [spake O.] 
                                
                                  'Faste brynge you hym to grounde, [Faste—to] Bringe hym lyghtly to the O.] 
                                
                                  For he shall dye with moche sorowe,
                                
                                  All cristondomeshall hym not borowȝe!' [nat hym O.] 
                                
                                  Aboute Beues than can they dryve, [than] om. O.] 
                                
                                  As Bees done aboute an hyve,
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                                  And Beues sye no better bote, [And] Whan O. none other rest O.] 
                                
                                  He wold with hem no more mote. [Than he began to do his best O.]

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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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