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

                                
                                  I wyll ffor-sake hym nevure the more
                                
                                  For none oþure kynges lore,
                                
                                  For my hert seith me sone,
                                
                                  That som treason is I-done,
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                                  For he nevure told me, whan he went;
                                
                                  He is so curtes and so gent,
                                
                                  And for that he was so good,
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                                  I love hym as my herte blood; [M folio 143b] 
                                
                                  For his love was so gent,
                                
                                  I wold thorough a chauntment,
                                
                                  A litull girdull to make me,
                                
                                  That shall aboute my medull be.
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                                  I wyll adaunte never more
                                
                                  To no hethyn kyngis lore,
                                
                                  Will I never haue to done
                                
                                  On suche maner with no man,
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                                  I wyll never so on-trew be,
                                
                                  As Beues is in his contree!'
                                
                                  Tho it to the tyme sped. [Tho] To M.] 
                                
                                  That kyng Yuore shold her wed,
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                                  He let send, with oute encheson,
                                
                                  To the Soudan of Babilon
                                
                                  And after the XV kynges,
                                
                                  That to hym shold do bowinge,

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

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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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