The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Zupitza, Julius, ed. 1844-1895.
ASSONE AS Guy hath herde
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What his hooste to him seide,
To his felawes he seide anone,
'To armes swithe euerichone!
The sarasyns we woll agaste.
For goddis loue, smyte faste.'
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Guy to the Admirall smote so,
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That shelde ne hauberk aduailled him not a sloo:
Thurgh the body he gaue him a wounde,
That dede he felle anone to grounde.
Guy his swerde anone to him drowe,
That the heuede fro the body flowe.
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To the Emperour he hath it sente,
That full glad was of that presente.
Heraude smote the king of Turkye [Caius MS. 107 page 87]
(Ther was noon feller in all Surrye):
Thurgh-oute the body he him smote,
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That dede he felle to the grounde fote hote.
With that come Thebaude priking,
In fraunce borne, a knyght full kynde:
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With suche strength he smote Elmadan,
That him aduailled noo thing he had on.
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Gauter come priking anone with that,
Of Almaigne a good knyght of astat.
He began to smyte to Amodan
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(Thou hast not herde of a feller man):
His body in two he hath clefte,
And dede in the felde it hath lefte.
With that come forth Morgadour:
Styward he was with the Emperour.
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Knyght he was good and hardy,
And traytour he was, and full of enuy.
He gan to smyte to a sarasyn,
That noo-thing him helped Appolyn.
Than they smyte to-gider manly,
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The bataille they begynne biggely.
There men might see Guy smyte
The sarasyns heedes of at a strike,
And with him heraude also:
Bothe they strength theim well to doo.
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The sarasyns theim yiue grete fighte,
For stronge they bee, and of grete mighte.
With that come Escladar priking,
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A Sarasyn he was of bigge making.
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Thus thise sarasyns with grete pride [Caius MS. 107 page 88]
Many cristen knyghtes to deth they leye aside.
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Whanne heraude hath that seyn,
Therof he was noo-thing fayn.
To Amylorde he smote so,
That dede he felle to grounde tho.
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Whan Escladar sawe this,
To awreke Amylorde leef him is.
To heraude he smote hertly,
And he him mette boldely.
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So egre was heraude to slee Eskladar,
That, or he was any-thing war,
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An hundred turkes ther were come,
And heraude all-most they had nome.
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Whan Guy sawe that, he was sory:
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Hastly he gooth him to socour truly.
His good bronde in honde helde he:
The hede of a Sarasyn he dud of flee.
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Heraude he socoureth well in that nede,
And made him worthe vpon his stede.
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Than Guy and heraude bothe in fere
With their felawes, that good were,
Haue discomfited and quelled
And the sarasyns hewen in the feeld.
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Thus they thanked god all and some,
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That the Sarasyns were ouere-come.
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