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

                                
                                  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.

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 382
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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