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

                                
                                  The fayre lady Helyanour
                                
                                  Ouer the castel lay that houre,
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                                  And al the iustynge she behelde,
                                
                                  What knyght hym bare best in the felde.
                                
                                  Than these knyghtes began to ryde,
                                
                                  Eche at other on euery syde.
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                                  The fyrst knyght, that Beuys rode agayne,
                                
                                  Was themperours son of Almayne,
                                
                                  And Beuys at hym bare so fast, [O folio 59b] 
                                
                                  That hors and man to grounde he cast.
                                
                                  The erle Florens forth gan thrynge
                                
                                  Agaynst Beuys wyth great hastynge;
                                
                                  Beuys met hym in the felde
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                                  And hyt hym in myddes of the shelde,
                                
                                  That two londe brede and more,
                                
                                  He cast hym from his hors thore.
                                
                                  Than rode forth the duke Antoyne,
                                
                                  That than was duke of Burgoyne;
                                
                                  He was stronge and great of pryce,
                                
                                  And thus he sayde to syr Beuys:
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                                  'Turne the, knyght, and make defence,
                                
                                  For I wol venge the erle Florence!'
                                
                                  Than wolde Beuys no lenger abyde,
                                
                                  But smote Arundel vnder the syde;
                                
                                  So harde eyther to other droue,
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                                  That theyr speres al to-roue.
                                
                                  But Beuys so harde to hym thrast,
                                
                                  That his shulder bone al to-brast;
                                
                                  Therof he was agreued sore,
                                
                                  For that day myght he iust nomore.
                                
                                  Than rode forth syr Terry
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                                  To the kynges broder of Hungry
                                
                                  And gaue to hym suche a rebowne,
                                
                                  That both he and his hors fel downe.
                                
                                  Than cam the erle Hamaut
                                
                                  And to Terry made a saute,
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                                  And Terry hyt hym in the shelde,
                                
                                  That he bare hym into the felde.
                                
                                  There was no knyght, verely, [O folio 60a] 
                                
                                  That myght wythstande Beuys nor Terry,
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                                  But al the knyghtes for great enuy
                                
                                  Them two assayled cruelly,
                                
                                  And ful narowe them sought,
                                
                                  But Beuis of Hampton spared nought;
                                
                                  The stywarde of that same londe
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                                  Beuys cast downe in myddys of the sonde.

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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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