Now haþ Gij michel to done: [C line 6915]
To a tre he went him sone;
Þer he wille bateyle abide
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Of þat best, what schaunce so bitide.
Þat best bisides him it went,
& wiþ his [stroke struck out after his.] teyle a strok him sent:
On þe scheld he smot him an heye,
Þat euen ato [The a added above the line.] it to-fleye,
Line 7250
Al-so it were wiþ a swerd broun.
Well neye Gij him fel adoun.
Wiþ his taile he bigirt sir Gij,
& him þrest so strongli,
Þat þre ribbes he brac atvo;
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& Gij wiþ strengþe smot him þo:
Atvo he him karf smartliche,
& deliuerd him seluen manliche.
Bi þe nauel he carf him ato,
& wiþ a gret pine deliuerd him fro.
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Gij him perceyued in þat stounde
Þat neuer more þurch wepen y-grounde
Þat [To be omitted?] fram þe nauel vp-ward so
No slouȝ him man neuer mo.
Þo þat best hirt him feled, [The second e underdotted.]
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Swiþe loude he grad & ȝeled,
Þat alle þat cuntre dined þere,
& als wide as men herd his bere,
The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
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- Title
- The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
- Publication
- London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & co., limited,
- 1883, 1887, 1891.
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- Subject terms
- Guy of Warwick (Legendary character)
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"The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHA2638.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 21, 2025.
Pages
Page 382
Nis man in þe werld þat wer þer neye
Þat him no miȝt agrise þat it seye.
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To a tre þan drouȝt him sir Gij,
& werd him wele for þe maistri. [The first i added above the line.]
His hauberk was to-rent tofore
As a clout þat were al to-tore.
Stalworþli sir Gij þer fauȝt,
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Ac wele he seye it gained him nauȝt
To smite on the bodi bifore:
He no miȝt him sle no no man bore.
Also þat best him went aboute, [folio 146b:b]
Gij him biþouȝt he was in doute:
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Bineþen [þ erased between bi and neþen.] þe wenge he him smot:
Þurch þat bodi þat swerd bot.
Þurch þe bodi he him [smot struck out after him.] carf atvo:
Ded he fel to grounde þo.
He grad & ȝelled swiþe loude,
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Þat it schilled into þe cloude.
Gij wiþ-drouȝ him þer-fro anon:
For stink þat of þe bodi come
Neye þat bodi he no durste.
After þat he ȝede him to reste. [C line 6953]
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When þat best þer ded lay,
For soþe y ȝou telle may,
Þritti fote meten it was
Þer it lay in þat plas.
Þe folk of þe cuntre it mette
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Þer it lay wonderliche grete.
Þat heued he bar þe bodi fro,
And wiþ þat Gij forþ went þo.
He come to his feren, apliȝt,
Þat for him bad to god almiȝt.
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To Warwike he is y-went,
Wiþ þat heued he made þe king present.
Þe king was bliþe & of glad chere
For þat he seye Gij hole & fere.
