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

                                
                                  As Beues shold passe with pley and pride, [As] so O; And M. passe—pride] fro the forest ryde O.] 
                                
                                  They hym be-sett on yche syde;
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                                  Thes fosters were well armed XII [The XII fosters were armed eche one O.] 
                                
                                  And Beves nakyd but hym selfe; [B.] was add. O. but h. s.] & al alone O.] 
                                
                                  Beues shold his swerd take, for to say, [Whan B. O. his—say] hande on his swerde lay O.] 
                                
                                  The scabarde he ffound, the sword was away, [the] his O. was] so O; om. M.]  [M folio 132a] 
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                                  For he had his sworde levyd [his s. l.] left his swerde thore O.] 
                                
                                  There he smot of the borus hede. [Where he slewe the wylde bore O.] 
                                
                                  Than he had hym nouȝt with to were, [he—with] had he nought hym O.] 
                                
                                  But a tronchyn of a spere. [a] the O.] 
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                                  The ffosters he bete down [The] Thre O. smote he O.] 
                                
                                  With a dynte of a trounchon; [dynte] stroke O. a] his O.] 
                                
                                  Nyne he slouȝe at dyntes thre,
                                
                                  The tother thre awey gan flee. [The t.] And other O.] 
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Here begynnyth a good tale of Bevys of Hamtoun, a good werriour.

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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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