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

                                  
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                                    . . . . . [f]leinge
                                  
                                    . . . . . [d]riueinge
                                  
                                    . . . . . ode gome [C line 2047] 
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                                    . . . . . e
                                  
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                                    . . . . . fro
                                  
                                    . . . . . to do
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                                    . . . . . t
                                  
                                    . . . . . d sket
                                  
                                    . . . . . oȝe
                                  
                                    . . . . . [þ] me
                                  
                                    . . . . .
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                                    . . . . . omen ichon
                                  
                                    Or ichil telle þemperour [C line 2059] 
                                  
                                    Ȝe han y-don him gret deshonour, [folio 119a:a] 
                                  
                                    When ȝe for a fewe men
                                  
                                    Schul so sone oway flen.'
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                                    Þai turned hem anon riȝt,
                                  
                                    & bi-gun a newe fiȝt.
                                  
                                    Al togider þai gun smite;
                                  
                                    Semblant [Slemblant MS.]  of loue þai kidde bot lite.
                                  
                                    Heteliche to him smot Gyoun;
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                                    His scheld nas nouȝt worþ a botoun,
                                  
                                    No his tvifold armes halp him nouȝt
                                  
                                    Þat in Loreyn weren y-wrouȝt.
                                  
                                    Strokes hij togider delden ywis
                                  
                                    On helmes & on briȝt scheldes;
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                                    So hard þai striken hem bitvene,
                                  
                                    Þat gode stones fallen þer ben.
                                  
                                    Aiþer semed a lyoun of mode,
                                  
                                    So hard þai smiten wiþ swordes gode.
                                  
                                    Wiþ him smot þe douke Segyn,
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                                    No lenge miȝt he wiþhelden him;
                                  
                                    Togider þai smiten hard and wel
                                  
                                    Wiþ brondes wele wrouȝt of stiel.

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 130
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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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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