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

                                
                                  Slepe he mvste, as the romans tellis, [mvste] lysted O.] 
                                
                                  That nyght he gate nought ellis. [nyght—nought] myght he gete and no thynge O.] 
                                
                                  Beues lay down and slepte a stound
                                
                                  And leyd his face vnto the ground. [And lete his hors bayte on the grounde C.] 
                                
                                  Whan he wakyd of his slepe, [awoke O; out add. O.] 
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                                  No more he bode, but vp he lepe, [But no (!) M. more] lenger O. but] so O; om. M. he] dyd O.] 
                                
                                  And as Beues fforth rode, [And as B.] Beuys than O.] 
                                
                                  In a foreste ffeire and brode [In] Towarde O.] 
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                                  He sye a palmer sitt hym nere
                                
                                  With bred and wyne at his dynere; [at] to O.] 
                                
                                  Bakyn curlews had he thre, [he had O.] 
                                
                                  Thouȝe he were pore on to see. [on to] so O; vnto M.] 
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                                  The palmer saw, Beues was knyght, [was] a add. O.]  [M folio 138a] 
                                
                                  And avayled his hat, as it was ryght, [valed O. hat] bonet O.] 
                                
                                  And seid: 'Sir, ffor love myne, [And] The palmer O. sir ffor] fayre O.] 
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                                  Ys it thy wyll, to come and dyne?' [thy] your O.] 
                                
                                  'There of,' said Beues, 'I am ffull ffayn:
                                
                                  For hunger hath me almoste slayn!' [1065 f.:For my wyl is moche gyuen to the,Therfore it forgyueth me,That thou shalt wysshe me, withouten fayle,To a man, for whome I trauayle!'Beuys saide agayne ful fayne:'Hunger hath done me moche peyne!' O.] 
                                
                                  Beues ete and dranke gret plente, [gret] ful gode O.] 
                                
                                  Whill he wold there at be; [wold] syt and add. O.] 
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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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