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

                                
                                  Wiþ me ich hadde an hundred kniȝtes
                                
                                  To mi wille for me in fiȝtes,
                                
                                  & now y no haue a grom to held mi stede.
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                                  Þat so miche me miȝt help [Looks like helper.]  at nede,
                                
                                  For me þai ben y-slawe ichon,
                                
                                  Oþer in peine in prisoun don.
                                
                                  A, mi dere frende sir Tirri,
                                
                                  For our departing icham sori.
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                                  No schal y þe se neuer eft mo?
                                
                                  For þe ichil mi liif in periil do,
                                
                                  Þat y [y ne schal MS.]  schal his body smite ato
                                
                                  Þat þus þis traisoun haþ ous do,
                                
                                  & so ichil awreke þe:
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                                  Dye ichil bot it so be.'
                                
                                  Gij rode forþ in his way
                                
                                  Alle þat iche self day, [C line 5687] 
                                
                                  So long þat he a castel seye
                                
                                  Opon a roche stode an heye.
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                                  He þouȝt to herberwe þare;
                                
                                  For he no miȝt no ferþer fare.
                                
                                  Also he to þe gates come
                                
                                  A ȝong kniȝt he fond þer anon.
                                
                                  Michel he was, hende, & fre:
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                                  Feren he hadde wiþ him þre.
                                
                                  Gij sey bi his semblaunt anon
                                
                                  Þat he was lord ouer hem ichon.
                                
                                  'Sir,' quaþ Gij, 'vnderstond to me. [folio 139b:a] 
                                
                                  Þe lord, þat made me and te,
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                                  Þe loke ȝif þi wille be,
                                
                                  And miche blisse he ȝif þe.
                                
                                  A kniȝt icham deswarre,
                                
                                  Þat in y bid par charite.'
                                
                                  ¶ Þe lord answerd sweteliche,
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                                  'Þou it schalt haue, bleþeliche.'
                                
                                  He dede vnder-fong his stede þo,
                                
                                  Bi his own [on MS.]  he dede it do.

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 322
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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