The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.

                                  
                                    Smiteþ wiþ swerdes & speres y-grounde,
                                  
                                    Scheteþ wiþ piles & ȝif hem deþ wounde.'
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                                    Mani Sarrazin þer y-slawe is;
                                  
                                    Þer doþ Gij as þe riȝt wise.
                                  
                                    Into þe narwe hij come, hem to lett,
                                  
                                    Bi hundredes foure [Read Bihinde and bifore.]  þai aseyl hem sket;
                                  
                                    Bi hundred & bi þousende, [originally thou|sinde, it seems.] 
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                                    Þai ben þe Sarrazins quellinde.
                                  
                                    Gij smot on þis side & on þat:
                                  
                                    Nas þer non þat his dint sat.
                                  
                                    ¶ Ermine he smot on [on added over the line.]  þurch þe scheld;
                                  
                                    Almost he feld him in þe feld.
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                                    Þan come Auþer ouer þuert,
                                  
                                    A Sarrazin modi of hert:
                                  
                                    Ermine [Herhaud?]  smot him on þe helme an heyȝe, [hey ȝe on an erasure, the last e being indistinct.] 
                                  
                                    Þat he cleue him to þe teþ;
                                  
                                    Al ded he made him on þe grounde to lie.
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                                    Wiþ þat come þe king of Nubie;
                                  
                                    Toward Herhaud he come prikeinde,
                                  
                                    & Gij him was oȝain cominde.
                                  
                                    Wiþ grete strengþe sir Gij him smot
                                  
                                    Þat he feld him anon fot hot.
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                                    When þe douke of Tire þat y-seþ, [folio 125b:a] 
                                  
                                    His men dye on so reweliche deþ
                                  
                                    (An hond he held a dart kerueinde,
                                  
                                    Þe Cristen þer-wiþ þreteninde),
                                  
                                    He forþ ȝede, & smot a kniȝt,
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                                    Þat ded he feld him anon riȝt.
                                  
                                    When Gij o Warwike þat y-seye,
                                  
                                    Þiderward he drouȝ him swiþe neye:
                                  
                                    A gode dart on hond he bar,
                                  
                                    & to him he launced heteliche þar.
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                                    Þer-wiþ he smot Ebban þe king,
                                  
                                    Þat ded he fel wiþouten letting.
                                  
                                    Þe Sarrazines hij to-heweþ & quelleþ,
                                  
                                    Bi þe doun hij gredeþ & ȝelleþ.

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & co., limited,; 1883, 1887, 1891.
Subject terms: Guy of Warwick (Legendary character)

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