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

                                
                                  Of þat helme þat swerd glod
                                
                                  Wiþ þat strok wiþ-outen abod.
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                                  Allas þat reuþe & þat sorwe,
                                
                                  Þat he no hadde his bodi for-corue!
                                
                                  Ac in þat maner ȝete it schal wende,
                                
                                  Who so hereþ þis tale to þende.
                                
                                  Þer him hadde Gij his heued binome,
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                                  No hadde gret socour to him come,
                                
                                  An hundred kniȝtes & fifti, [folio 135b:a] 
                                
                                  Þat stalworþ were & hardi:
                                
                                  Þe douke þai ben to socour y-come.
                                
                                  Mani Gij haþ her heuedes binome. [bi altered from y.] 
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                                  Wiþ þat þer com a stout Lombard,
                                
                                  Of Mohaut he was y-hoten Grimbald.
                                
                                  Gij he smot in þat stounde
                                
                                  Þurch þe scholder a grete wounde.
                                
                                  Gij wold awreke him anon:
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                                  Opon his helme he hewe gode won.
                                
                                  Þan com ten kniȝtes prout,
                                
                                  & Gij þai bisett about,
                                
                                  & Gij him wered wiþ his brond,
                                
                                  Til þat it brac vnto his hond.
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                                  'Allas,' quaþ Gij, 'þis vnþang!
                                
                                  Were no may y me nouȝt lang.'
                                
                                  ¶ Þer come prikeand a prout Lombard,
                                
                                  Atte last he held him, a musard. [MS. auuisard?] 
                                
                                  Bi þe nasel he tok Gij,
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                                  & seyd him a gret vilainie:
                                
                                  'Þou wroche glotoun losaniour,
                                
                                  Þou schalt þe ȝeld, bi seyn Sauour.
                                
                                  Now ichil ȝeld þe to prisoun
                                
                                  To mi lordes wille, þe douke Otoun.' [MS. of toun.] 
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                                  'Þou lext,' þan Gij sede,
                                
                                  'Þou liþer bodi, so god me rede.
                                
                                  Erst þou it schalt abigge,
                                
                                  Er þou me in prisoun legge.'

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 295
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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