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

                                
                                  'Lordinges,' quaþ Gij, 'ich ȝou biseche,
                                
                                  Ȝif ani of ȝou me can teche,
                                
                                  Who slouȝ mi lyoun to-day.'
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                                  Alle þai seyd, 'sir, certes, nay.'
                                
                                  Wiþ þat into þe halle he come,
                                
                                  A maiden he mett þer anon. [C line 4126] 
                                
                                  ¶ 'Sir Gij,' she seyd, 'leue swete,
                                
                                  Is þi lyoun ded, or liues ȝete?
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                                  For þurchout smite ichim seye.'
                                
                                  Þo seyd Gij: 'mi swete lef, ney,
                                
                                  Ich þe bidde, for-hele it nouȝt,
                                
                                  Who haþ mi lyoun to deþ y-brouȝt?'
                                
                                  'Sir,' sche seyd, 'Morgadour,
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                                  Þat is steward wiþ þemperour:
                                
                                  Þurch þe bodi he him smot.
                                
                                  His deþ it worþ, wele y wot.' [folio 130a:b] 
                                
                                  When he herd þat ich feloun [C line 4139] 
                                
                                  Hadde y-slawe his lyoun,
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                                  Out of halle he gan driue
                                
                                  Fram chaumber to chaumber al-so swiþe,
                                
                                  Wiþ naked swerd in his hond:
                                
                                  Ȝif he him findeþ he goþ to schond.
                                
                                  Into a chaumber he com þat stounde,
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                                  & Morgadour sone he founde
                                
                                  Wiþ his nevou in conseyl fast:
                                
                                  When þai seye Gij þai weren agast.
                                
                                  Gij seyd: 'þou me hast bitreyd
                                
                                  When þou to grounde mi lyoun leyd.
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                                  No dede ich þe neuer bot gode,
                                
                                  Þou fel treytour, vnkinde blod.'
                                
                                  ¶ Morgadour answerd anon,
                                
                                  Stalworþ kniȝt as he was on:
                                
                                  'Þou lexst amidward þi teþ,
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                                  & þer-fore haue þou maugreþ.
                                
                                  Whi berstow me on treysoun,
                                
                                  Þat ich haue sleyn þi lioun?'

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 250
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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