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 loughe the lady Elyanore
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                                  For the boste, that he made before,
                                
                                  And many Beuys bare thoroughout,
                                
                                  That of theyr lyfe they stode in dout.
                                
                                  They stynted neuer, tyl it was nyght,
                                
                                  That they wanted the day lyght;
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                                  Than they left of theyr Iustynge,
                                
                                  And on the morowe they harde tyd|ynge,
                                
                                  That syr Beuys of Hamptowne
                                
                                  Had wonne the laude and the re|nowne.
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                                  Dame Helyanour wolde nat blynne,
                                
                                  Tyl Beuys was brought to hyr Inne;
                                
                                  She sayde: 'Syr, it is gyuen me to counsayle,
                                
                                  Thou shalt me wed, wythouten fayle,
                                
                                  Eyther to other terme of lyfe.'
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                                  'Nay,' sayde Beuys, 'I haue a wyfe,'
                                
                                  And tolde, howe she was stolne hym fro.
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                                  Than sayde the lady: 'Sythe it is so,
                                
                                  Thou shalt al this seuen yere
                                
                                  Be my lorde in clene manere,
                                
                                  And if thou fynde hyr nat by than,
                                
                                  I wyl the haue before any man;
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                                  And if in that tyme ye fynde your wyfe, [O folio 60b] 
                                
                                  I wol none husbonde durynge my lyfe:
                                
                                  And loke, Beuys, if I say skyl!'
                                
                                  'Dame,' sayde Beuys, 'I holde me thertyl.'
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                                  Thus was Beuys hyr gouernour
                                
                                  And led that londe in great honour.
                                
                                  As Sabere slept on a nyght in bed,
                                
                                  Hym thought, that Beuys was bested
                                
                                  Wyth Ascaparde, that was his swayne
                                
                                  That he had Beuys nerehande slayne.

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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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