Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

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

for ȝef þou were alyue wiþ suerd oþer wiþ knyue 112 we shulden alle deȝe þy fader deþ to beye þe children ede to þe stronde wryngynde huere honde 116 ant in to shipes borde at þe furste worde ofte hade horn be wo ah neuer wors þen him wes þo 120 ¶ þe see bygon to flowen & horn faste to rowen ant þat ship wel suyþe drof & horn wes adred þer of 124 hue wenden mid y wisse of huere lyue to misse al þe day & al þe nyht o þat sprong þe day lyht 128 fflotterede horn by þe stronde er he seye eny londe feren quoþ horn þe ȝynge ytelle ou tydynge 132 Ich here foules singe & se þe grases springe blyþe be ȝe alyue vr ship is come to ryue 136 of shipe hy gonne founde & sette fot to grounde by þe see syde hure ship bi gon to ryde 140 þenne spec him child horn in sudenne he was yborn nou ship by þe flode haue dayes gode 144 by þe see brynke no water þe adrynke softe mote þou sterye þat water þe ne derye 148
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King Horn; a Middle-English romance, edited from the manuscripts by Joseph Hall.
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Oxford,: Clarendon press,
1901.

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