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

                                
                                  'I haue great wonder,' sayde kynge Iour,
                                
                                  'That he sendeth nat hyder for socour!'
                                
                                  'The messangers were taken fyue,' [O folio 36b] 
                                
                                  Syr Beuys sayde, 'by my lyue,
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                                  That cam from kynge Bradwyne;
                                
                                  I the tel by goddys pyne:
                                
                                  Kynge Syracke hathe them in holde,
                                
                                  I trowe, it be nat to Bradmonde tolde!'
                                
                                  'Certaynly,' sayde kynge Iour,
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                                  'I wyl haste me to that stoure,
                                
                                  For to helpe to venge my broder
                                
                                  In his ryght agaynst that other!'
                                
                                  Than kynge Iour withe al his chyualry
                                
                                  Forthe went vnto Surry,
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                                  But his stywarde, syr Grassy,
                                
                                  He left at home ful redely.
                                
                                  Than cam togeder in that case
                                
                                  Beuys, Iosian and Bonyface:
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                                  'Nowe is tyme,' sayde Beuys, 'to go!'
                                
                                  'Nay,' sayde Boniface, 'ye shal nat so:
                                
                                  The kynges stywarde, syr Grassy,
                                
                                  Is made kepar of my lady;
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                                  I knowe a grasse,' he sayde, 'I-wys,
                                
                                  That of suche vertue is,

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