The romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun. Ed. from six manuscripts and the old printed copy, with introduction, notes, and glossary, by Eugen Kölbing ...

                                
                                  All at onys to hym they thronge [to] on O. swonge O.] 
                                
                                  And gave hym woundus wyde and longe;
                                
                                  Beues was sure of no wepyn longe ne small, [was s. of] had O. longe] great O.] 
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                                  That he myght deffend hym with all, [That he m.] For to O.] 
                                
                                  And he sye, it was no better paye, [And he s.] Than O. better p.] bote to pray O.] 
                                
                                  But shifte hym in the beste way; [sh.] let O. in—way] do the best he may O.] 
                                
                                  Beues was wise and toke good kepe: [wise—kepe] both lyght & quycke O.] 
                                
                                  To a Sarzin anon he lepe, [And to O. anon] gan O.] 
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                                  With his fiste smote hym so faste, [Whome with. O. smote h.] he stroke O.] 
                                
                                  That his cheke-bone all to-braste; [cheke-bones O.] 
                                
                                  The sarzins sword he toke on hond, [Than the O. on] in O.] 
                                
                                  He ffellid all that be-fore hym ffond. [He] And O. that] wolde add. O. stande O.] 
                                
                                  There myght men se mekyll on-hele, [men myght O. moche wo O.] 
                                
                                  Whan that Beues be-gan to rele: [that] om. O. rele] go O.] 
                                
                                  Some he gaue suche a wounde,
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                                  That they lay gronyng as an hound. [gr. as] grennynge lyke O.] 
                                
                                  Of Sarzins were meny, with oute ly, [Of] The O. meny—ly] both wight and slye O.] 
                                
                                  That asayled Beues with gret envye; [That] And O.] 
                                
                                  Beues amonge the Sarzins lepe, [amonge the S.] about them dyd O.] 
                                
                                  As they were a flok of shepe; [were] had ben O.] 
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                                  Of som the wombes had he torne, [had he t.] he gan downe tere O.] 
                                
                                  There trayled her guttes ham be-forn. [That the guttes trayled here and there O.] 
                                
                                  There was no sarzin, that hym hitte, [hym] he O.] 
                                
                                  But he is body all to-slitt: [all to-s.] in sunder smyt O.] 
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                                  There myght none fle be no side, [be] on O.] 
                                
                                  But he was with strokys made on-ride, [But Beuys made hym to abyde.]

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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1885, 1886, 1894.

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