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

                                
                                  We beþ kniȝtes ȝonge,
                                
                                  Of odai al isprunge,
                                  Line 548 
                                
                                  & of vre mestere
                                
                                  So is þe manere
                                
                                  Wiþ sume oþere kniȝte
                                
                                  Wel for his lemman fiȝte,
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                                  Or he eni wif take:
                                
                                  For þi me stondeþ þe more rape.
                                
                                  Today, so crist me blesse,
                                
                                  Ihc wulle do pruesse
                                  Line 556 
                                
                                  For þi luue in þe felde
                                
                                  Mid spere & mid schelde:
                                
                                  If ihc come to lyue
                                
                                  Ihc schal þe take to wyue.'
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                                  ¶ 'Kniȝt,' quaþ heo, 'trewe,
                                
                                  Ihc wene ihc mai þe leue:
                                
                                  Tak nu her þis goldring,
                                
                                  God him is þe dubbing;
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                                  Þer is vpon þe ringe
                                
                                  Igraue Rymenhild þe ȝonge.
                                
                                  Þer nis non betere anonder sunne
                                
                                  Þat eni man of telle cunne;
                                  Line 568 
                                
                                  For my luue þu hit were
                                
                                  & on þi finger þu him bere:
                                
                                  Þe stones beoþ of suche grace
                                
                                  Þat þu ne schalt in none place
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                                  Of none duntes beon ofdrad,
                                
                                  Ne on bataille beon amad,
                                
                                  Ef þu loke þeran
                                
                                  & þenke vpon þi lemman.
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                                  ¶ And sire Aþulf, þi broþer,
                                
                                  He schal haue anoþer.
                                
                                  Horn, ihc þe biseche,
                                
                                  Wiþ loueliche speche,
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                                  Crist ȝeue god erndinge
                                
                                  Þe aȝen to ¶ bringe.'
                                
                                  ¶ Þe kniȝt hire gan kesse, [folio 9a:2] 
                                
                                  & heo him to blesse:

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Title: King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
Canvas: Page 33
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1901.

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