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

                                
                                  Of kniȝtes suiþe snelle
                                
                                  Þat schrudde hem at wille.
                                  Line 1464 
                                
                                  Hi ȝeden bi þe grauel
                                
                                  Toward þe castel:
                                
                                  Hi gunne murie singe
                                
                                  & makede here gleowinge.
                                  Line 1468 
                                
                                  ¶ Rymenhild hit gan ihere
                                
                                  & axede what hi were.
                                
                                  Hi sede: 'hi weren harpurs,
                                
                                  & sume were gigours.'
                                  Line 1472 
                                
                                  He dude horn in late
                                
                                  Riȝt at halle gate;
                                
                                  He sette him on þe benche [folio 13a:2] 
                                
                                  His harpe for to clenche. [clenche above line MS.] 
                                  Line 1476 
                                
                                  He makede Rymenhilde lay,
                                
                                  & heo makede walaway.
                                
                                  Rymenhild feol yswoȝe,
                                
                                  Ne was þer non þat louȝe.
                                  Line 1480 
                                
                                  Hit smot to hornes herte [to above line in darker ink MS.] 
                                
                                  So bitere þat hit smerte.
                                
                                  He lokede on þe ringe
                                
                                  & þoȝte on Rymenhilde. [on in darker ink over an erasure MS.] 
                                  Line 1484 
                                
                                  He ȝede vp to borde
                                
                                  Wiþ gode suerdes orde. [suerdes] s above line MS.] 
                                
                                  ffikenhildes crune
                                
                                  Þer ifulde adune,
                                  Line 1488 
                                
                                  & Al his men a rowe
                                
                                  Hi dude adun þrowe.
                                
                                  Whanne hi weren aslaȝe,
                                
                                  Fikenhild hi dude todraȝe. [dude above line MS.] 
                                  Line 1492 
                                
                                  Horn makede Arnoldin þare
                                
                                  King after king Aylmare,
                                
                                  Of al westernesse
                                
                                  For his meoknesse.
                                  Line 1496 
                                
                                  Þe king & his homage
                                
                                  Ȝeuen Arnoldin trewage.

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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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