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 ...

                                
                                  Of me þou woldyst haue pyte.
                                
                                  Now that boone thou quyte me,
                                
                                  That þou are behyghtest me,
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                                  That y to drynke leue schulde haue,
                                
                                  At what tyme y wolde hyt craue.'
                                
                                  Amerawnt seyde: 'was þat þy thoght?
                                
                                  Leeue to drynke getyste þou noght.'
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                                  To that sarsyn answeryd Gye:
                                
                                  'Of me thou haue some mercye.
                                
                                  Yf y for thurste dedde bee,
                                
                                  For cowardyse men wolde wyte the.
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                                  Wylt þou suffur, þat y drynke nowe
                                
                                  (For hyt were gretly for my prowe),
                                
                                  Then,' seyde Gye, 'we may fyght same,
                                
                                  To wytt, who schall haue harme or game.'
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                                  ¶ The gyawnt seyde: 'thou art smarte:
                                
                                  I wyll not the holde for no cowarte.
                                
                                  Y wolde not for þys cyte wyth þe gylte towre,
                                
                                  But y myght stroye kynge Tryamowre.
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                                  When y haue thy hedde of schorne
                                
                                  And þe slayne the kynge beforne,
                                
                                  Hys landys y nede not for to craue;
                                
                                  For the beste of them y schall haue.
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                                  The sowdan hath a doghtur dere:
                                
                                  In all þys worlde y knowe not hur pere.
                                
                                  Y loue hur well, so dothe sche me:
                                
                                  The sowdan þynkyth to geue hur me.
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                                  Ȝelde the,' he seyde, 'vnto me
                                
                                  And of thy harnes vnlace the,
                                
                                  And thy lyfe y schall saue soo:
                                
                                  And, yf thou wylt not, y schall þe sloo.'
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                                  ¶ Gye answeryd then wyth grete yre;
                                
                                  'Y wyll not ȝyt, leue syre.
                                
                                  Hyt ys not þe custome of my londe.
                                
                                  Arste wyll y be drawyn wyth horsys stronge, [folio 214a:1] 
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                                  Then euyr y schulde in soche a nede

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