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

                                
                                  But than cam hastely socour
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                                  And horsed agayne syr Mordour.
                                
                                  Than boldly dyd he abyde,
                                
                                  The people were slayne on euery syde.
                                
                                  Beuys rode forth on Arundel,
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                                  On euery syde he dyd them fel,
                                
                                  Some lay bledynge as a bore,
                                
                                  Some were so hyt, that they spake no more,
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                                  Of some the lyppes he dyd so pare,
                                
                                  That men myght se theyre tethe bare,
                                
                                  None went vnmarked away,
                                
                                  That Beuys hyt wyth Morglay,
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                                  For sore agreued was he,
                                
                                  Where Beuys had one, Murdour had thre,
                                
                                  But Beuys and Sabere bare them so,
                                
                                  That agayne one they slewe two.
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                                  Whan the thronge was moste harde,
                                
                                  Than cam in Ascaparde,
                                
                                  Al on fote, as I you swere,
                                
                                  For there myght no hors hym bere;
                                
                                  Wyth a great staffe in his honde
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                                  He slewe al downe, that he fonde.
                                
                                  Whan Ascaparde cam wyth hys rout,
                                
                                  Than was syr Murdour in great dout,
                                
                                  For he brought wyth hym then [O folio 53a] 
                                
                                  Thre thousande of fresshe men
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                                  And felled downe on euery syde
                                
                                  And slewe al that wolde abyde.
                                
                                  Great pyte it was, certayne,
                                
                                  So many men as there were slayne.
                                
                                  Aferde thay were of Ascaparde,
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                                  For he smote so sore and harde,
                                
                                  That thre thousand of them dyd fle
                                
                                  And drowned them selfe in the se.
                                
                                  Beuys called Ascaparde hym tyl
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                                  And sayde: 'Felawe, here my skyl:
                                
                                  Loke, that thou take gode hede
                                
                                  Of hym, that rydeth on the whyte stede,
                                
                                  And bere hym alyue into the tour,
                                
                                  For that same is syr Murdour!'

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Here begynnyth a good tale of Bevys of Hamtoun, a good werriour.

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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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