- BEVIS OF SOUTHAMPTON
- or HAMPTON, SIR, a famous knight of English mediæval romance, a man of gigantic stature, whose marvellous feats are recorded in Drayton's "Polyolbion."
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BEVIS OF SOUTHAMPTON
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