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

                                
                                  Ar ani of hem hem were miȝt,
                                
                                  Alle he hem slouȝ, y ȝou pliȝt.
                                
                                  Þo he hadde hem slaun ichon,
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                                  He lepe opon his stede anon.
                                
                                  Comen he is to þat mayde,
                                
                                  Wel sweteliche to hir he seyde,
                                
                                  'Na more sori þou no be,
                                
                                  Ac arise vp, & com wiþ me:
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                                  To þi leman y bringe þe sket
                                
                                  Vnder þe þorn þer þou him let.'
                                
                                  Opon a mule sche warþ anon, [folio 132a:b] 
                                
                                  To þe hawe-þorn þai ben y-gon, [C line 4525] 
                                
                                  Ac þai no haue nouȝt þe kniȝt y-founde:
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                                  Y-ladde he was owai þat stounde.
                                
                                  Þo he fond him nouȝt, he was sori;
                                
                                  For he wend wel sikerli
                                
                                  Þat lyouns him hadde to-drawe.
                                
                                  He loked adoun vnder þe wode schawe,
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                                  If he ouȝt y-herd loude or heye:
                                
                                  Of hors traces hy þer seye.
                                
                                  ¶ Þat maiden he lete þare,
                                
                                  & after swiþe he is y-fare.
                                
                                  So fast he rode, þat he com neye
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                                  Four kniȝtes he þer seye.
                                
                                  Gij of-toke sone þat ferrede,
                                
                                  & seye þan kn[i]ȝt wiþ hem lede.
                                
                                  Gij, [j altered from þ.]  þat heye rode on his stede,
                                
                                  Ȝernne he bad ȝif he miȝt spede.
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                                  To þe kniȝtes sir Gij him sade:
                                
                                  'Lordinges, þilke lord þat ȝou made,
                                
                                  & þe niȝt & þe briȝt day,
                                
                                  Ȝou do worþschipe so wele he may.
                                
                                  Ȝif it be ȝour wille speke wiþ me:
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                                  To mi speche vnder-stond ȝe.
                                
                                  Lordinges, ich haue mi treuþe y-pliȝt
                                
                                  To him þat ȝe lede, þ[i]lke kniȝt,

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 270
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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