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

                                
                                  In to myn heritage
                                  Line 1324 
                                
                                  Mid myn hirysce page
                                
                                  Þat lond ich schal of reche
                                
                                  And do my fader wreche
                                
                                  Ich schal be kyng of tune [be] ke MS.] 
                                  Line 1328 
                                
                                  And wite of kynges owne [Before owne erasure of one letter, apparently t or s MS.] 
                                
                                  Þenne schal Reymyld þe ȝonge
                                
                                  Lyggen by horn þe kynge
                                
                                  Horn gan to schipe ryde [Horn] Hor MS.] 
                                  Line 1332 
                                
                                  And hys knyȝtes bi side
                                
                                  Here schip gan to croude
                                
                                  Þe wynd hym bleu wel loude
                                
                                  Honder fodenne syde
                                  Line 1336 
                                
                                  Here schip bigan to glide [schiþ] s above line MS.] 
                                
                                  Abowte myd niȝte
                                
                                  Horn hym yede wel ryȝte
                                
                                  Nam ayol on hys honde
                                  Line 1340 
                                
                                  And yeden op hon londe
                                
                                  Hye founde honder schelde
                                
                                  A knyt liggen in felde
                                
                                  Op þe scheld was drawe
                                  Line 1344 
                                
                                  A crowch of ihesu cristes lawe
                                
                                  Þe knyt hy lay on slepe
                                
                                  In armes wel y mete [Substituted for Ḥoṛṇ ḥỵṃ g̣ạ̄ ṃ MS.] 
                                
                                  Horn hym gan take
                                  Line 1348 
                                
                                  And seyde knyt awake
                                
                                  Me þynkeþ by þe crowches lyste [þe] þ corr. out of c MS.] 
                                
                                  Þat þou leuest on criste
                                
                                  Bote þou hyt raþe schewe
                                  Line 1352 
                                
                                  Wyt Mi swerd ich schal þe hewe
                                
                                  Þe gode knyt op a ros [knyt] n above line MS.] 
                                
                                  Of hornes wordes hym agros

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 74
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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