Þe douk wiþ-went him fot hot, [C line 5021]
& wiþ his brond he him smot.
Line 5380
Þer þai fouȝten togider snelle,
& smiten strokes wiþ gode wille.
Þai hewe on armes & brini briȝt:
Þe blod sprang out anon riȝt.
Bitvene hem [An erasure after hem.] was strong fiȝt; [folio 136b:a]
Line 5385
Aiþer no spard oþer no-wiȝt.
Þan biginneþ Herhaud swiþe:
Bot he him wreke he is vnbliþe.
Fast he sayleþ þe douk Otoun,
A quarter of his helme he smot adoun:
Line 5390
Opon his scholder þat swerd glod,
& in he it schef an hand brod.
Opon his honden he dede him falle,
& seþþe he tok him bi þe naselle:
Bleþeliche he wold þe heued haue nom,
Line 5395
Ac so mani kniȝtes to him come,
The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
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- Title
- The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
- Publication
- London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & co., limited,
- 1883, 1887, 1891.
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- Subject terms
- Guy of Warwick (Legendary character)
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"The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHA2638.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.
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Page 298
& on Herhaud þai smiten snelle:
Ȝernne þai strengþed him to quelle.
Herhaud mett wiþ hem þere:
Made he no semblaunt þat he wounded were.
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Wiþ a Lombard so mett he, [C line 5045]
Þe heued he dede fram þe bodi fle.
As a gode kniȝt he werd him, y-wis,
Ac swiþe liþer bifallen him is:
Also he wald to þe cite go,
Line 5405
His stede dyed vnder him þo.
Wiþ swerdes þai smiten him þan about,
& on his helme hard him clout.
Þai hewe on his helme, þat blod out ran,
Ac he werd him as a man.
Line 5410
Mani on he made blodi, y pliȝt,
Of [f altered from b.] Lombardes in þat fiȝt.
A Lombard come forþ wiþ þan, [C line 5057]
Richard he hete, an onwrast [annwrast originally, but o] man:
To Herhaud he smot a strok grim
Line 5415
Þurch þe scholder wiþ a swerd in.
Herhaud wold of him be wreke:
On his [Two or three letters erased after his.] helme a stroke he gan reke,
Ac he failed of him þo:
Opon þe arsoun þe strok gan go;
Line 5420
Ac hetelich he pliȝt out þat brond,
Þat it brak in his hond.
'God, what schal y do?' þan seyd he,
'No lenger may ich weri me.
A, swerd, he þat made þe
Line 5425
Of godes mouþe acursed he be.
Why feylestow so sone me?
Iuel biseyn worþ y for þe.
Leuer me is her to be ded, [C line 5079] [folio 136a:b]
Þan hy my bodi wiþ hem led.'
Line 5430
Wiþ þat come driuend a Lombard,
Attelast he held him, a couward.
