TO TELLE OF Guy y haue thoughte
How god him hath fro deth broughte.
Whan he was passed that Ryuer sterne
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He loked him aboute full yerne.
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'Lorde god,' he seide, 'what may [y] doo?
Wery wrecche, whider may y goo?
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Now y haue loste the Erle Terry [Caius MS. 107 page 131]
And Heraude, my maister, y am sory.'
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The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
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- 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 20, 2025.
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Guy forthe wente his waye,
And rode mournyng all that daye,
So longe that he a Castell seigh
Vpon a roche stonding on heigh.
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As he to the gate come
A yonge knyght he fonde there anone.
Mikell he was, hende, and free:
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Felawes he had with him three.
Guy sawe by their semblant anone
That he was lorde of theim echone.
'Sir,' quoth Guy, 'vnderstonde me.
The lorde, that made bothe sonde and see,
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The saue and blisse euermo,
In-to what contree that ye goo.
I am a knyght of farre contree,
And herborough y aske for charite.'
The lorde answerd full swetely,
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'Ye shall haue, full hertly.'
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By the honde he toke than Guy,
And in-to the halle yeden they.
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The lorde with that to him seyde,
'I the bidde, sir, at this breyde
That thy name thou telle me,
And not couere [MS. discouere.] it, y pray the.'
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Guy answerd full louely,
'My name y telle the blithely:
Guy of Warrewik my name is.
Euyl y am a-combred, ywis.'
Whan the lorde herde that, [Caius MS. 107 page 132]
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That it was Guy that by him sat,
'Sir,' he seyde, 'welcome to me:
In your owne herburgh ye bee.
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Amys of Champeyn my name is:
Well ye oughte to knowe me, ywis.
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'Sir,' quoth Amys, 'fro whens comest thou,
That ye goo thus allone nowe?
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Where is heraude, that knyght free,
And all thy knyghtes of grete bountee?'
'I shall the telle, sir,' quoth Guy.
'No wonder is though y bee sory.'
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Than tolde he him that cas,
How the Erle Terry wounded was,
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And how the parlement was nome,
And how thurgh treason they were ouerecome,
And how Terry was take thoo
And the good heraude also,
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And with theim .v. hundred knyghtis,
Orped men and stronge in fightes.
'I ne wote whether they bee dede or alyue:
All y sawe theim ledde forthe blyue.'