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 ...

                                
                                  He þoght, fro hym he wolde not fle. [fle written twice, but the first time blotted out.] 
                                
                                  Hys hawberke þere was all torente:
                                
                                  Hys body was full nere schente.
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                                  At the laste Gye hym bethoght,
                                
                                  To smyte before hyt helpyþ noght.
                                
                                  As the dragon was turnande,
                                
                                  Gye had hys swyrde in hys hande:
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                                  Euyn betwene the wyngys twoo
                                
                                  He smote the body almoste a too.
                                
                                  He felle downe and myght no more, [folio 205b:2] 
                                
                                  But beganne to crye and rore.
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                                  Gye wythdrewe hym sone than [MS. then.] :
                                
                                  For grete stynke he was nye slane. [MS. slayne.] 
                                
                                  He restyd hym vpon the playne:
                                
                                  Of hys dede he was full fayne.
                                  Line 6952 
                                
                                  ¶ When Gye had rested hym well,
                                
                                  He rose and mett hym euery delle:
                                
                                  Syxty fote was he longe.
                                
                                  Therof men had wondur stronge:
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                                  All, that came be the way,
                                
                                  Wondurd on hym, þere he lay.
                                
                                  The hedde of soone he schare.
                                
                                  To the kynge a man hyt bare:
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                                  To Ȝorke the hed dud he brynge
                                
                                  And presentyd hyt to the kynge,
                                
                                  And wyth a grete precessyowne
                                
                                  They broght Gye to the towne.
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                                  At Ȝorke the hed was hangyd þan:
                                
                                  Theron lokyd many a man.
                                
                                  ¶ He toke leue at þe kynge thare
                                
                                  And to Walyngforde dud he fare.
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                                  The kynge was then full blythe
                                
                                  And thankyd god fele sythe.
                                
                                  Longe was paste, wythowte lesynge,

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Title: 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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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,; 1875-6.

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