The Origin And History of the English Language, And of the Early Literature It Embodies

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And wisi ' horn mid tliire stevene, The engeles singeth ine heovene ?
Thu faxest so dodh an ydel wel, That springeth bi bume thar is snel,* An let for-drue^ the dune,* And floh on idel thar a-dune.
The disputants become irritated, and ai-e about to proceed to violence, when the wren, who for heo cuthe singe, "War com in thare morejeiing.
To helpe thare nistegale, interferes, reminds the parties of their agreement to refer their differences to an arbiter, and sends them to abide his judgment.
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...e poem concludes : — Mid thisse worde forth hi ferden, Al bute here and bute verde,' To Portersham that heo bi-come ; Ah hu heo spedde of heore dome Ne chan ich eu namore telle ; Her nis namore of this spelle.
The Geste of Kyng Horn, a romantic poem of about sixteen hundred verses, belongs to the thirteenth century, and has not been traced to a foreign original ; but the existence of nearly contemporaneous versions of the same story, in French and other languages, renders it highly probable that the first con- ception of the poem was of a much earlier date.


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