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

                                
                                  Ihc am icome to loke
                                
                                  Ef eni fiss hit toke.
                                
                                  Ihc am icome to fisse: [icome above line MS.] 
                                
                                  Drink to me of disse,
                                  Line 1144 
                                
                                  Drink to horn of horne:
                                
                                  Feor ihc am i orne.'
                                
                                  Rymenhild him gan bihelde,
                                
                                  Hire heorte bigan to chelde.
                                  Line 1148 
                                
                                  Ne kneu heo noȝt his fissing,
                                
                                  Ne horn hym selue noþing:
                                
                                  Ac wunder hire gan þinke
                                
                                  Whi he bad to horn drinke.
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                                  Heo fulde hire horn wiþ wyn
                                
                                  & dronk to þe pilegrym.
                                
                                  Heo sede: 'drink þi fulle,
                                
                                  & suþþe þu me telle
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                                  If þu eure isiȝe
                                
                                  ·Horn· vnder wude liȝe.'
                                
                                  Horn dronk of horn a stunde
                                
                                  & þreu þe ring to grunde.
                                  Line 1160 
                                
                                  Þe quen ȝede to bure
                                
                                  Wiþ hire maidenes foure.
                                
                                  Þo fond heo what heo wolde,
                                
                                  A ring igrauen of golde
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                                  Þat horn of hure hadde;
                                
                                  Sore hure dradde
                                
                                  Þat horn isterue were, [isterue] isteue MS.] 
                                
                                  For þe Ring was þere.
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                                  Þo sente heo a damesele
                                
                                  After þe palmere;
                                
                                  'Palmere,' quaþ heo, 'trewe,
                                
                                  Þe ring þat þu þrewe,
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                                  Þu seie whar þu hit nome,
                                
                                  & whi þu hider come.'
                                
                                  He sede: 'bi seint gile,
                                
                                  Ihc habbe go mani Mile,

                                  Line 1176

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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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