Incidentally, if anyone wants to know how different the romance of "Sir Eglamore of Artois" is from the D'Urfey text, here is the first stanza as given in Lincoln MS. 91, the Lincoln Thornton MS, which is one of the great sources of Middle English romances. Recall that þ=th; Ȝ=y or gh or g or just Ȝ Ihesu, þat es heuens Kyng, Gyff vs alle his blyssyng And beyld vs in his boure; And giff þam ioye þat will here Of eldirs þat byfore vs were, þat lyued in grete honoure. I will Ȝow telle of a knyghte þat was bothe hardy and wyght, And stythe in ilk a stoure: Whare dedis of armes were, fere or nere, þe gre he wynnes wyth iornaye clere, And euir in felde þe floure. (If there are any typos in there, blame it on me having to juggle all those HTML entities because Mudcat has unicode problems. :-)
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