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

                                
                                  Than dyd the dragon Beuys assayle
                                
                                  And so sore smote hym wyth hys tayle,
                                
                                  That to the grounde he hym cast
                                
                                  And two of his rybbes he brast.
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                                  Up stert Beuys wyth gode wyl
                                
                                  And after ranne the dragon tyl;
                                
                                  Than gode Morglay out he brayde
                                
                                  And on the dragon fast he layde,
                                
                                  But for no stroke, that he dyd smyte,
                                
                                  Wolde nat Morglay on hym byte.
                                
                                  The dragon was agreued sore
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                                  And smote at Beuys more and more;
                                
                                  There had he many a great wounde
                                
                                  And often was felled to the grounde;
                                
                                  What for wery and what for faynt,
                                
                                  Syr Beuys was nerehande attaynt.
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                                  The dragon sued on Beuys so harde,
                                
                                  That, as he shulde haue fled bacwarde,
                                
                                  There was a wel, so haue I wynne,
                                
                                  And Beuys stumbled ryght therin;
                                
                                  Than was Beuys aferde and wo,
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                                  Lest the dragon wolde hym slo,
                                
                                  Or that he myght away pas.
                                
                                  Whan he in that wel was,
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                                  Than was that wel of suche vertue
                                
                                  Thoroughe the myght of Cryste Iesu,
                                
                                  For som tyme dwelled in that londe
                                
                                  A vyrgyn full of goddys sonde,
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                                  That had ben bathed in that wel, [O folio 43b] 
                                
                                  That neuer after, as men tel,
                                
                                  Myght venymous beste com therin,
                                
                                  By the vertue of that vyrgyn,
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                                  Nor nere it by seuen fote and more;
                                
                                  Than was Beuys glad wythout sore.
                                
                                  Whan Beuys sawe, the dragon fel
                                
                                  Had no myght, to come nere that wel,
                                
                                  Than was he glad, wythout fayle,
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                                  And rested hym there for hys auayle.

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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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