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When Gij seye him so smite, [The i of smite added over the line.] [C line 1103]
He was wroþ, ȝe may wele wite;
Gwichard he wald fond to smite
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Wiþ his swerd þat wold wele bite;
To him he smot swiþe smert
Þurch þe bodi ful ney þe [MS. ney þe þe] hert:
Þat gode swerd þurchim þrang,
Gwichard wald abide nouȝt lang;
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He turned his stede & gan to fle,
& Gij after him, bi mi leute.
Gode was þe hors þat Gwichard rod on,
& so fast his stede gan gon,
Þat Gij miȝt him nouȝt atake,
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Þer-fore he gan sorwe make.
Gwichard fleye in his way [folio 115b:1]
Toward Paui, so swiþe he may.
Þe douk Otous fram hunting com, [C line 1115]
& with him erles mani on;
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A kniȝt he seye cum prikeing,
His armes to-rent, his woundes bledeing.
Þe douk Otous duelled aþrowe,
What he hadde Gwichard y-knowe:
Wele he semed man aferd,
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Þat hard tiding hadde y-herd.
Wiþ þat is Gwichard to him come;
Þe douke him oxed atte frome,
'Gwichard, who haþ wretþed þe,
& where hastow in bateyle be?
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¶ Where is Gij? is he nome?
Liues or deþ[es] do him come.'
'Ichil ȝou sigge sikerly [C line 1127]
So michel so y wot of Gij:
At a ford we him mett,
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& strongliche we him bisett,
Bot his bodi no nom we nouȝt,
Ac al to deþ we ben y-brouȝt;
