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

                                
                                   [M folio 184b] Sir Beues deffendid him well I-nouȝe, [him] so O; hem M.] 
                                
                                  Meny he ffellid and mony he sleweȝ;
                                
                                  On yche side he them down slonge, [euery O. slonge] cast O.] 
                                
                                  He prekyd fforth amonge the thronge, [He] And O. the thr.] ryght fast O.] 
                                
                                  Tyll he come in to Chepe; [to] the add. O.] 
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                                  Than at the erste he be-gan to swete; [There fonde he many men on hepe O.] 
                                
                                  Than anon be-ganne the ffyght, [Than a.] There agayne O; he add. M. the] so O; to M.] 
                                
                                  That tyme be-twene the Cite and the knyght. [That t.] om. O.] 
                                
                                  Than said sir Beues hend and good
                                
                                  To the folke, that there stode: [Unto O.] 
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                                  'I rede, that ye on-lok the yate [yate] gate O; yatis M.] 
                                
                                  And let me scape there oute ate, [That I may passe forthe therat O.] 
                                
                                  For, yf I were slayn here with in,
                                
                                  Litull worshippe shall ye wynne!' [shulde O.] 
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                                  And all they gan ageyn hym crye: [And] Than O. agaynst O.] 
                                
                                  'Yeld the, Beues, or thou shalte dye!'
                                
                                  Tho fought Beues, as he were wood,
                                
                                  And bathid Morglay in theire blood;

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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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