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

                                
                                  When þou of loue bi-sechist me
                                
                                  Þat y schold þi leman be.
                                
                                  No fond y neuer man me so missede,
                                
                                  No me so of loue bede,
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                                  Noyþer kniȝt no baroun,
                                
                                  Bot þou þat art a garsoun,
                                
                                  & art mi man, & man schalt be.
                                
                                  Yuel were mi fairhed sett on þe,
                                
                                  & y swiche a grome toke,
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                                  & so mani grete lordinges for-soke.
                                
                                  Erls, doukes of þe best
                                
                                  In þis world, & þe richest,
                                
                                  Me haue desired apliȝt,
                                
                                  Þat neuer of me hadde siȝt.
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                                  Þat wer gret deshonour to me!
                                
                                  Al to loþ mi liif me schuld be.
                                
                                  Al to fole-hardi þou were,
                                
                                  When þou me of loue bisouȝtest here.
                                
                                  Bi mi trewþe y schal þe swere, [C line 224] 
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                                  Schal y mi fader þe tiding bere,
                                
                                  Þou worþest to-hewen, oþer for-do,
                                
                                  (Bi þe be warned oþer mo)
                                
                                  Oþer wiþ wilde hors to-drawe,
                                
                                  For þi foly, & þat wer lawe,
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                                  & oþer schul be warned bi þi dede, [folio 109b:1] 
                                
                                  & her lordinges þe more drede.
                                
                                  Go heþen,' sche seyd, '& vp arise,
                                
                                  & cum nam-more in mi purpris!'
                                
                                  ¶ Wel sorwefuliche went Gij [C line 235] 
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                                  In to his chaumber al dreri:
                                
                                  Gij in to his chaumber gan to gon,
                                
                                  & schett him þer in anon.
                                
                                  Þer in he made sorwe anouȝ,
                                
                                  & his cloþes al to-drouȝ.
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                                  Vnder heuen nas þat it ne miȝt haue rewþe
                                
                                  Of his sorwenes & of his trewþe.

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 24
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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