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

                                
                                  No no clerk vnder sonne,
                                
                                  Þat þe soþe ȝou telle conne; [folio 112b:1] 
                                
                                  Bot al þe folk of þat cuntre
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                                  Seyd þat Gij þe best miȝt be.
                                
                                  & þat oþer day y-same
                                
                                  Sir Gij wan þat ich game;
                                
                                  & þer-fore, on euerich a side,
                                
                                  On him was leyd al þe pride.
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                                  So opon þe þridde day
                                
                                  Þe kniȝtes tok her leue and went oway. [C line 660] 
                                
                                  ¶ Wiþ þis come þe douk prikeing,
                                
                                  A gode kniȝt and wele doing.
                                
                                  'Lordinges,' he seyd, 'herkeneþ to me:
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                                  Ichil ȝou telle hou it schal be;
                                
                                  & who so þer-oȝain sey ouȝt,
                                
                                  Of bateyl no þarf him feyl nouȝt.'
                                
                                  Þai seyden al couinliche,
                                
                                  Þe dome was ȝouen sikerliche;
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                                  Þe gerfauk and þe gode stede,
                                
                                  Þe grehoundes schul haue to mede
                                
                                  Gij of Warwike, þe noble kniȝt,
                                
                                  For best nov doand in þis fiȝt.
                                
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                                  Þus þe kniȝtes ben departed y-wis;
                                
                                  Sir Gij to jn y-comen is,
                                
                                  & dede him vnarmi:
                                
                                  Of turnament he was weri.
                                
                                  ¶ Wiþ þat come a seriant prikeinde, [C line 679] 
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                                  Gentil he was & wele spekeinde;
                                
                                  To sir Gyes in he is y-come,
                                
                                  & him he gret atte frome:

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 56
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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