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

                                
                                  Swiche riȝt do als tow wilt,
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                                  & take þe amendes after þe gilt;
                                
                                  For alle þai schul be þine men [an]on,
                                
                                  In þi nede serue þe ichon,
                                
                                  & at þi wille take her catel.
                                
                                  Wiþ-drawe þi mod, sir, y bidde [i in bidde altered from e?]  þe wel:
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                                  Ich wil þatow to-morwen arly
                                
                                  Mi douhter at þe chirche spousy.'
                                
                                  ¶ Gij answerd: 'þerof speke nouȝt: [C line 4193] 
                                
                                  Hir to nim nam ich nouȝt biþouȝt;
                                
                                  For, ȝif þou haddest me hir ȝiue,
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                                  & ich hir toke þer whiles y liue,
                                
                                  Þan wold þi men anon,
                                
                                  Þat wonderful be mani on,
                                
                                  Þe seggen wiþ deshonour
                                
                                  Þou haddest made a pouer man emperour,
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                                  & vnworþ þai wold holden of me,
                                
                                  & sum edwite þer wold be
                                
                                  Þat þi douhter desperplid were,
                                
                                  Ȝif þou to me hadde ȝiuen  [me h. ȝ. on an erasure.] her here.
                                
                                  Leuer ich hadde litel wiþ worþschipe
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                                  Þan michel welden wiþ schenschipe.
                                
                                  Þer-fore, sir emperour, y þe telle,
                                
                                  In non maner bileuen y nille.
                                
                                  Whende ichil in-to mi cuntre,
                                
                                  Mine frendes to visite & to se.'
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                                  Leue he toke wiþ þat speche,
                                
                                  & seyd, 'godes sone y þe biteche.'
                                
                                  When þemperour wiþ-holden him no may [C line 4209] 
                                
                                  (He seþ his wille is to wende o-way),
                                
                                  Wepen he gan wiþ his eyȝen tvo:
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                                  Alle þo of þe court dede al-so.
                                
                                  His grete tresour he dede forþ bring, [folio 130b:b] 
                                
                                  & bede it Gij to his likeing,
                                
                                  Ac þerof liked him nouȝt to take:
                                
                                  Anouȝ he hadde of [One letter erased after of.]  Sarrazins blake.

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 254
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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