King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.

                                
                                  For yf þou come to liue
                                
                                  With suerdes or with cniue
                                
                                  We sholde alle deye
                                
                                  Þi faderes det abeye
                                  Line 116 
                                
                                  Þe childre yede to stronde
                                
                                  Wringende here honde
                                
                                  Ofte hauede horn child be wo
                                
                                  Bute neuere werse þan þo
                                  Line 120 
                                
                                  Horn yede in to þe shipes bord [Horn] Horns MS.] 
                                
                                  Sone at þe firste word
                                
                                  And alle hise feren
                                
                                  Þat ware him lef and dere
                                  Line 124 
                                
                                  Þe se bigan to flowen·
                                
                                  And horn faste to rowen
                                
                                  And here schip swiþe drof
                                
                                  Þe children adred þer of
                                  Line 128 
                                
                                  Þei wenden alle wel ywis
                                
                                  Of here lif haued ymis
                                
                                  Al þe day and al þe nict
                                
                                  Til him sprong þe day lyt
                                  Line 132 
                                
                                  Til horn bi þe stronde
                                
                                  Seth men gon alonde
                                
                                  Feren he seyde singe
                                
                                  Y telle ȝou a tidinge
                                  Line 136 
                                
                                  Ych here foules singe
                                
                                  And so þe gras him springe [springe] sc̣p i nge MS.] 
                                
                                  Bliþe be we oliue
                                
                                  Houre schip hys come ryue
                                  Line 140 
                                
                                  Of schip þe gon fonde
                                
                                  An sette fot on grunde
                                
                                  Bi þe se side
                                
                                  Here schip bigan to glide
                                  Line 144 
                                
                                  Þanne spek þe child horn [child] chid MS.] 
                                
                                  In sodenne he was yborn
                                
                                  Go nou schip by flode
                                
                                  And haue dawes gode
                                  Line 148 
                                
                                  Softe mote þou stirie
                                
                                  No water þe derie

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
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Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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