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

                                
                                  No lenger there wolde he abyde,
                                
                                  But toke his chyldren and forthe gan ryde.
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                                  A foster in the wode he met,
                                
                                  And syr Beuys fayre hym gret:
                                
                                  'Felawe,' sayde he to hym than,
                                
                                  'Sawest thou ought of suche a man
                                
                                  Lede a woman by any way?'
                                
                                  'Syr,' sayde the foster, 'nay!'
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                                  'What maner of man art thou, bache|lere?'
                                
                                  'Syr,' he sayde, 'I am a foster!'
                                
                                  'Wylt thou,' sayde Beuys, 'so Cryst the shylde,
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                                  Do crysten here an hethen chylde?
                                
                                  But ryght nowe was it borne,
                                
                                  Ful erly it hathe the moder lorne,
                                
                                  And kepe it but this seuen yere,
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                                  For X marke, and haue it here?'
                                
                                  'Gladly!' sayde the foster tho;
                                
                                  He toke the chylde & the golde also.

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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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