A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance

Note 573 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 6)

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I wille yow telle of a knyghte That bothe was stalworthe and wyghte. (Isumbras.)

Y schalle telle yow of a knyght That was bothe hardy and wyght. (Eglamour.)

And y schalle karppe off a knyght That was both hardy and wyght. (Degrevant.)

"The Thornton Romances," ed. Halliwell (Camden Society, 1844, pp. 88, 121, 177), from a MS. preserved in the cathedral of Lincoln, that contains romances, recipes, prayers, &c., copied in the first half of the fifteenth century, on more ancient texts. See notes on many similar romances in Ward's "Catalogue of MS. Romances," 1883, vol. i. pp. 760 ff.

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