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 syr Morys of Vyayne [O folio 52a] 
                                
                                  Fast rode syr Sabere agayne;
                                
                                  Syr Sabere defended hym, I-wys,
                                
                                  And suche a stroke he gaue Morys, [haue (!) O.] 
                                
                                  That quyte away gan he cleue,
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                                  Fro the shulder, arme and sleue. [For (!) O.] 
                                
                                  Afore the preas went syr Beuys,
                                
                                  On eche syde he felled them downe, I-wys;
                                
                                  There myght none armoure agaynst hym stonde.
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                                  That sawe the kynge of Skotlonde,
                                
                                  He preased forth wyth his rout
                                
                                  And beset syr Beuys rounde about;
                                
                                  Than began Beuys to play
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                                  And to get hym rowme wyth gode Morglay;
                                
                                  Yet wolde he nat stynt so,
                                
                                  Tyl he went the kynge vnto,
                                
                                  And suche a stroke he hym lent,
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                                  That his hors on the grounde went.
                                
                                  But suche socour cam tho,
                                
                                  That Beuys must thens go,
                                
                                  But or he was horsed agayne,
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                                  Many of his men had Beuys slayne;
                                
                                  Beuys thoroughe the preas dyd ryde
                                
                                  And them ouerthrewe on euery syde,
                                
                                  He wolde nat stynt in that stour,
                                
                                  Tyl he cam to syr Murdour;
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                                  'Traytour,' he sayde wyth great enuye,
                                
                                  'Turne the nowe, I the defye!'
                                
                                  Whan Murdour sawe, he was so bested,
                                
                                  He tourned his backe and wolde haue fled,
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                                   [O folio 52b] And wyth gode Morglay after smote he;
                                
                                  He fayled of hym, & that was pyte,
                                
                                  For by his backe the stroke fel downe
                                
                                  And hyt vpon hys sadyl cropowne;
                                
                                  Yet wyth his stroke in that stounde
                                
                                  He smote his hors vnto the grounde,

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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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