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

                                
                                  To Reymyld he ne wende
                                
                                  Ne to hyre sende
                                
                                  Reymyld was in westnesse
                                  Line 964 
                                
                                  Myd michel sorwenesse
                                
                                  A kyng þer was aryuede
                                
                                  Þat wolde hyre habbe to wyue
                                
                                  At sone ware þe kynges
                                  Line 968 
                                
                                  Of hyre weddinges
                                
                                  Þe dawes weren schorte
                                
                                  And reymyld ne dorste
                                
                                  Lette in none wise
                                  Line 972 
                                
                                  A writ he dede deuise
                                
                                  Ayol hyt dide write
                                
                                  Þat horn ne louede nawt lite
                                
                                  And to eueryche londe
                                  Line 976 
                                
                                  For horn hym was so longe
                                
                                  After horn þe knycte
                                
                                  For þat he ne Myȝte
                                
                                  Horn þer of ne þoute
                                  Line 980 
                                
                                  Tyl on a day þat he ferde
                                
                                  To wode for to seche
                                
                                  A page he gan mete
                                
                                  He seyde leue fere
                                  Line 984 
                                
                                  Wat sekest þou here
                                
                                  Knyt feyr of felle
                                
                                  Qwat þe page y wole þe telle
                                
                                  Ich seke fram westnesse
                                  Line 988 
                                
                                  Horn knyt of estnesse
                                
                                  For þe mayde reymyld
                                
                                  Þat for hym ney waxeþ wild
                                
                                  A kyng hire schal wedde
                                  Line 992 
                                
                                  A soneday to bedde
                                
                                  Kyng mody of reny
                                
                                  Þat was hornes enemy
                                
                                  Ich haue walked wide
                                  Line 996 
                                
                                  By þe se syde
                                
                                  Ich neuere myȝt of reche
                                
                                  Whit no londisse speche

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 54
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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