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

                                
                                  He sede: 'ihc haue aȝenes my wille
                                
                                  Payns ful ylle. [ful ylle over an erasure of about seven letters longer MS.] 
                                  Line 1316 
                                
                                  Ihc was cristene a while;
                                
                                  Þo icom to þis ille [icom] com above line MS.] 
                                
                                  Sarazins blake
                                
                                  Þat dude me forsake.
                                  Line 1320 
                                
                                  On crist ihc wolde bileue,
                                
                                  On him hi makede ¶ me reue,
                                
                                  To kepe þis passage [folio 12b:1] 
                                
                                  Fram horn þat is of age,
                                  Line 1324 
                                
                                  Þat wunieþ bieste,
                                
                                  Kniȝt wiþ þe beste:
                                
                                  Hi sloȝe wiþ here honde
                                
                                  Þe king of þis londe,
                                  Line 1328 
                                
                                  & wiþ him fele hundred,
                                
                                  & þerof is wunder
                                
                                  Þat he ne comeþ to fiȝte.
                                
                                  God sende him þe riȝte,
                                  Line 1332 
                                
                                  & wind him hider driue,
                                
                                  To bringe hem of liue.
                                
                                  Hi sloȝen kyng Murry,
                                
                                  Hornes fader king hendy,
                                  Line 1336 
                                
                                  Horn hi vt of londe sente;
                                
                                  Tuelf felaȝes wiþ him wente,
                                
                                  Among hem aþulf þe gode, [hem aþulf correction in darker ink over erasure MS.] 
                                
                                  Min oȝene child, my leue fode:
                                  Line 1340 
                                
                                  Ef horn child is hol & sund,
                                
                                  & Aþulf biþute wund,
                                
                                  He luueþ him so dere,
                                
                                  & is him so stere,
                                  Line 1344 
                                
                                  Miȝte iseon hem tueie,
                                
                                  For ioie ischolde deie.'
                                
                                  ¶ 'Kniȝt beo þanne bliþe
                                
                                  Mest of alle siþe; [of above line MS.] 
                                  Line 1348 
                                
                                  Horn & Aþulf his fere
                                
                                  Boþe hi ben here.'
                                
                                  To horn he gan gon
                                
                                  & grette him anon.

                                  Line 1352

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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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