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

                                  
                                    Þurch þe bodi a kniȝt he bar,
                                  
                                    Ded he feld him adoun þar.
                                  
                                    Anoþer lording he smot þo,
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                                    His hauberk nas him worþ a slo.
                                  
                                    Þurch his bodi þe brond went: [folio 134a:b] 
                                  
                                    Ded he feld him verrament.
                                  
                                    Ich on of hem þat he toke, he slouȝ,
                                  
                                    Were it wiþ riȝt, were it wiþ wouȝ.
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                                    Wel fel kniȝtes þer weren y-feld,
                                  
                                    Þat lay long streȝte in þe feld:
                                  
                                    Sum were þurch þe bodi wounde,
                                  
                                    And sum lay ded opon þe grounde.
                                  
                                    So wele dede þerl Tirri,
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                                    & wiþ him alle his compeynie.
                                  
                                    Þe lordinges þai han so þurch-gon,
                                  
                                    Þat ded þai fel mani on.
                                  
                                    Tirri smot to þe constable: [C line 4878] 
                                  
                                    Of his stede he feld him, wiþ-outen fable,
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                                    & ney he hadde him wonne in fiȝt.
                                  
                                    Þer com an hundred kniȝtes of gret miȝt:
                                  
                                    Alle þai folwed him abaundoun,
                                  
                                    & he mett wiþ hem als a lyoun.
                                  
                                    Mani heuedes he dede of fle:
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                                    Alle þat he smot ded most be.
                                  
                                    Tirri mis-dede nouȝt for þan:
                                  
                                    Þer he les his feren euerich man.
                                  
                                    Þurch strengþe of þe lordinges snelle,
                                  
                                    Fif hundred of kniȝtes felle,
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                                    Tirries felawes ben ouer-come,
                                  
                                    Of-held, y-slawe, oþer y-nome.
                                  
                                    Ac Tirri hem goþ þan meteing
                                  
                                    Wiþ mani strok of his brond kerueing:
                                  
                                    A fot no deyned him nouȝt to fle,
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                                    No his stede wiþ-wende oȝe.
                                  
                                    His feren he rescoud as a gode kniȝt:
                                  
                                    Mani on he feld ded anon riȝt.

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 289
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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