Off þe lady now wyll y telle, [folio 215a:2]
Of Gyes wyfe, and nothynge dwelle.
Of charyte þer was none hur make,
Sythen hur lorde þe wey dud take
Line 8400
Halowse to seke mony oon:
He neuyr stynte, or he had done. [done altered from don, which shows clearly that the flourish did not mean e; and what else could it mean? Cf. 9094.]
Abbeyse, churchys sche dud make
At that tyme for Gyes sake
Line 8404
And pore men bothe clothe and fede
Mony, sythe þat Gye fro þe londe yede.
Neuyr for game, that was done,
Loghe sche, sythe þat Gye was gone.
Line 8408
That lady had a sone free:
A feyrer myght no man see.
They crystenyd hym in a fant stone
And clepyd hym Reynbowrne. [Reynbrown[e] is the correct form, but the MS. always has Reynbowrn[e].]
Line 8412
To Harrowde þey delyuyrde þe chylde,
As Gye badde the lady mylde.
Harrowde toke the gode grome
And kepte hym, as hys lordys sone.
Line 8416
He betoke hym two knyghtys þore
To kepe hym well and do no more.
When the chylde was vii yere olde,
Well waxen he was and feyre and bolde.
Line 8420
¶ Many marchandys of wyde where,
Of Rosse, as ye harde ȝerre,
Golde and syluyr þey had broght thoo,
The romance of Guy of Warwick. The second or 15th-century version. Edited from the paper ms. Ff. 2. 38. in the University Library, Cambridge, by Dr. Julius Zupitza ...
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Page 242
Copur and tynne and brasse þertoo,
Line 8424
Veire and gryce and pylches armyne
And clothys of sylke and of satyne.
Ryght at deuer [London? See the note.] haue þey reuyn
And to kynge Athelston a present geuyn.
Line 8428
To þer schyppes be they gone
And soght townes many oon,
So þat þey came to Wallyngforde
x myle tolde fro Oxonforde.
Line 8432
Hyt was a cyte gode wythall
And wele yclosyd wyth stone walle; [folio 215b:1]
And, syþen wyth warre hyt was caste down,
Hyt was neuer syth so gode a towne.
Line 8436
The marchandes þoght not to be schente
And to Harrowde broght a presente,
And Harrowde toke hyt wyth gode wylle
And thanked þem bothe lowde and stylle.
Line 8440
¶ When the marchandes sye that chylde
Pley in þe halle so wanton and wylde,
Wondur had the marchandys there:
A fayrer chylde sawe þey neuer ere.
Line 8444
They asked the knyghtys [MS. knyght.] in that place,
Whose that feyre chylde wase.
They answeryd, sekerlyke: [ke in sekerlyke altered from e in MS.]
'Hyt [t in Hyt altered from s in MS.] ys syr Gyes sone of Warwyke.'
Line 8448
In feyrenes they hym preysed tho
And thoght, that he schulde wyth þem goo;
For þey thoght to selle hym full dere,
In what londe so that they were.
Line 8452
And wyth [Part of a letter struck out before wyth in MS.] the portar they spake tho
And wyth the chylde awey þey dud goo.
To London þey wente soone agane,
But of that chylde wyste no man.
Line 8456
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Line 8456
¶ To Russye the wey they dud take,
And, when þey sawe þe londe, grete yoye þey dud [dud over the line in the same hand.] make.
They wende to haue reuyn feyre and wele,
But to them befelle grete sorowe and dele.
Line 8460
The nyght waxed soon black, as pycke:
Then was the myste boþe marke and thycke.
The weder waxe þycke, þe wynde blewe faste:
Almoste the schyppe hyt dud downe caste.
Line 8464
Then were þey turmentyd soo,
That they wyste not, whodur to goo.
The wawes ouyryede þe schyppe soo,
That þey were wete fro toppe to too.
Line 8468
Hyt brake þer cordys and eke ther maste:
Then wende þey to dye all at þe laste.
Ouyr all greuyd them that turmente:
They preyed to god omnypotente, [folio 215b:2]
Line 8472
That he schulde þat lowde wynde felle
And borowe þer sowles owt of helle.
Farre in þe see þe schyppe ys dryuen:
In Awfryke well soone þey be yryuen.
Line 8476
¶ When þe marchandys can þat see,
That they in Awfryke aryuen bee,
They þoȝt Reynbowrn, þat chylde, to take
The kynge wyth hym a present to make,
Line 8480
That þey may freschly and well
Go þorow þe londe feyre and well
For to selle and for to bye,
That no man schulde þem affraye.
Line 8484
Sythen they toke two marchans [MS. marchandys.]
Wele ydyght of Romans:
To þe kynge þey presentyd þat chylde,
And he hym resseyuyd wyth wordys mylde.
Line 8488
The kynge had a doghtur in þe towne:
Of þe selfe age was Reynbowrne.
Sche preyed þorow hur modur wylle
