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

                                
                                  Of his comynge the kynge was blythe
                                
                                  And asked hym mercy on hundreth sythe
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                                  And sayde: 'If thou wylt forgyue me,
                                
                                  I wyl be crystened for loue of the.'
                                
                                  On that couenaunt Beuys gan hym kysse, [O folio 62b] 
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                                  Thus be they acorded, I-wys.
                                
                                  Than anon with oute other dome [Than anon] om. O. oute] any add. O.]  [M folio 178a] 
                                
                                  Beues send to the pope of Rome, [pope] erased in O.] 
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                                  That he shold send his clerkys good,
                                
                                  And Sabere to the Bysshoppes yode, [And] om. O. to the B.] them prayed or they O.] 
                                
                                  That they myght with theire clergye [myght—clergye] wolde solempnly O.] 
                                
                                  Cryston the lond of Ermonye,
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                                  For that the kynge graunted had; [that—gr.] al the kynges graunt they O.] 
                                
                                  The pope it hard and he was glad, [pope] pope of, intentionally destroyed in O. it—was] that herynge was ful O.] 
                                
                                  And he hath sent after his sawe [And—sent] He sent thyder O.] 
                                
                                  Clerkys, that wyse were of the lawe; [were wyse O. the] om. O.] 
                                
                                  They crystoned kyng Ermyn with her hondis [theyr hande O.] 
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                                  And than all the other of the londys. [than] om. O. other] people O. his lande O.] 
                                
                                  In meny a stid Beues dyd wyrke [stid] place O. dyd] gan O.] 
                                
                                  Abbeys, mynesters, and meny a kirke. [myn.] om. O. a] fayre add. O.] 
                                
                                  So was ffurste Armonye
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                                  Thorouȝ Beues crystoned, sekerly.
                                
                                  Kyng Yuore herd sone tythand, [Whan kynge Iour did vnderstonde O.] 
                                
                                  That Beues and Iosyan were in the land, [M folio 178b]  [and—the] was come into that O.] 
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                                  A grett oste he gaderid thoo, [grett] he add. (!) M. gadred he O.] 
                                
                                  Fourty thousand and well moo; [and well] saraȝyns and O.] 
                                
                                  To Aremonye they went thanne [Unto O. went he O.] 
                                
                                  And be-gan to robbe and branne, [And] there add. O.] 
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                                  And Beues hard, that he was comyn, [And] Whan O.] 
                                
                                  Grett power he hath nomen [A great oste he had anone O.] 
                                
                                  And rode kynge Yuore ageyn
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                                  With ten thousand men, sertayn;
                                
                                  It was a ffeire sight to be-hold, [to be-h.] who so behelde O.] 
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                                  Whan both partyes were in the ffeld; [were] met O.] 
                                
                                  The ffeld shone wonder-bryght [wonder-br.] al on lyght O.] 
                                
                                  Of helmys and of basnettes light; [Of basenettes and helmes bryght O.] 
                                
                                  But sone after there was another,
                                
                                  Eyther oste discried other; [Whan eyther O. defyed O.] 
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                                  As the romans seith, on bothe partyes [On both partyes, the romayns says, O.] 
                                
                                  They shott dartys with bows turkeys, [dartys] arowes O.]

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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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