The Riverside Literature Series GARETH AND LYNETTE HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY Boston: 4 Park Street; New York: 85 Fifth Avenue The Riverside Press, Cambridge : that euer I berde fpekt of/3 haue afpred/thy Byng met nes er yet bith Ibozshipful man/snt alle hym/ Wyll haue his fede Ibithout he do me homage/ thenne the messager &parkd Holb is there ony here said Arthur that knolbeth kpng Ry ons Ithenne anfuerd a knyght that hyght Naram/ Sprej kno be the Bynge bel/h is a passeng good man of his body/as Felbe En Cpugnge/and a paffyng prolba man/ and fir doußte ye not/ he wille make barre on polb with a myghty puyssa anowel said Arthur I shall ozdegne for hym in short tyme Capitulum yyBiÿj Hene kpng arthur lete (ende for al the childze born on may day begote of forces & born of ladys/for Merlyn tolog kynge Arthur that he that hold destroye hym/ tholdy be Bozne in may day/therfor fe fent for hem all Spon papy of th and so ther Ibere founde many fordes fones/andy all Ibere (ente Bnto the kynge/ and foo was mordady sent by kyng Lotts Tyf/andy all were put in a ship to the fee/ and some bew in Ibekes old and some laffe/Andy so by fortune the hyp drofe Bnto a caftel and bas al to ryuen and destroyed the most part fauf that Mordredh mbas ast Sp and a good man fonde hym/ and nourished hym tyl he was yiin per olde/e thenne he Brought hym to the Court / as it whrath afterward to Bardz the end of the wth of Arthur/So many bras and sawns of this wame were displeafyon/for her children there so lost/ andy many put the byte on Merlyn more than on Arthur/so what for dred and for loue they held their pees/But whanne the messager came to kynge Ryons/ thenne was he took out of mefuæ and pututyed hym for a gre host as it refercyth af fer in the look of Balyn le fausage that follbeth next afar/ Holb By aduentur Balyn gat the slberd Explicit liber primus After the dethe of Otherpendragon wgnedz Ars thur his fone the lohich had gut erre in his dages for to gete al Englond in to his handy For there bere many kynges bithin the wals me of England andy in Walys/Scotlandy and Cornelbaitte/Soo if fefelle on a tyme/ wanne kyng Arthur Reduced facsimile of a page of the first edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, printed by Caxton in 1485. |