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

                                
                                  Guy of Warwycke, I vnderstonde,
                                
                                  Slewe a dragon in Northumberlonde;
                                
                                  But suche a dragon was neuer sene,
                                
                                  As syr Beuys slewe, I wene.
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                                  Beuys went to bed a nyght
                                
                                  With moche ioy and torches bryght,
                                
                                  And after hys fyrst slepynge
                                
                                  He herde a ruful cryenge;
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                                  The voyce sayde in his crye:
                                
                                  'Lorde Iesu, haue on me mercy!
                                
                                  I rotte,' he sayde, 'bone by bone,
                                
                                  My deth is comynge me vpon!'
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                                  Beuys had therof great sorowe
                                
                                  And asked men there on the morowe,
                                
                                  He asked them, what was that crye, [aske O.] 
                                
                                  They answered and tolde hym why;
                                
                                  They sayde, it was a noble knyght,
                                
                                  That was stronge and bolde in fyght,
                                
                                  And as he rode out of the towne,
                                
                                  He met wyth a fel dragon,
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                                   [O folio 41b] That hath venym vpon hym throwe,
                                
                                  There lyeth the knyght al to-blowe;

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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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