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

                                
                                  ȝef þou comest to sudenne
                                
                                  gret hem þat me kenne
                                
                                  gret wel þe gode
                                
                                  quene godild mi moder
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                                  ant sey þene heþene kyng
                                
                                  ihesu cristes wytherlyng
                                
                                  þat ich hol & fere
                                
                                  in londe aryuede here
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                                  ant say þat he shal fonde
                                
                                  þen deþ of myne honde
                                
                                  ¶ þe ship bigon to fleoten
                                
                                  & horn child to weopen
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                                  by dales & by dounes
                                
                                  þe children eoden to tounes
                                
                                  metten hue Eylmer þe kyng
                                
                                  crist him ȝeue god tymyng
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                                  kyng of westnesse
                                
                                  crist him myhte blesse [crist] est MS.] 
                                
                                  he spec to horn child
                                
                                  wordes suyþe myld
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                                  whenne be ȝe gomen
                                
                                  þat bueþ her a londe ycomen
                                
                                  alle þrettene
                                
                                  of bodye suyþe kene
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                                  by god þat me made
                                
                                  so feyr a felaurade
                                
                                  ne seh yneuer stonde
                                
                                  in westnesse londe
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                                  say me whet ȝe seche
                                
                                  horn spec huere speche
                                
                                  ¶ Horn spac for huem alle
                                
                                  for so hit moste byfalle
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                                  he wes þe wyseste [þe corrected out of þy MS.] 
                                
                                  & of wytte þe beste
                                
                                  we bueþ of sudenne
                                
                                  ycome of gode kenne
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                                  of cristene blode
                                
                                  of cunne swyþe gode
                                
                                  payenes þer connen aryue
                                
                                  and cristine brohten of lyue

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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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