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 ...

                                
                                  Ȝelde me vnto soche a quede.'
                                
                                  ¶ Then seyde Amerawnt: 'sey me now,
                                
                                  Where were þou borne and what hyght þou?
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                                  To let the drynke haue y thoght;
                                
                                  For why þy name þou layne noght.
                                
                                  Thou makeste men to clepe the,
                                
                                  I trowe, not so, os hyt schulde bee.
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                                  Yf þou on þe that name bare,
                                
                                  Thou schuldyst be knowyn wyde whare.
                                
                                  ¶ Gye answeryd: 'thou schalt here;
                                
                                  Loke, thou ley hyt to thyn ere.
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                                  Gye of Warwyk clepyd am y,
                                
                                  Borne in Ynglonde, wytterlye.
                                
                                  I fyght for Tryamowre the kynge
                                
                                  The to take ouer all thynge
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                                  And to delyuyr hym of fame stronge,
                                
                                  That ys put on hym wyth wronge.'
                                
                                  ¶ But, when Amerawnt vnduryode,
                                
                                  That Gye there before hym stode,
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                                  That so moche preysed was,
                                
                                  Of hym had he wonder in þat place.
                                
                                  He seyde: 'Gye, welcome mote þou bee.
                                
                                  Ouyr all thynge desyred y the.
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                                  Now wot y well, that sothe hyt ys,
                                
                                  That men haue spokyn of þe or þys.
                                
                                  But so, or y go, y schall the dere,
                                
                                  That þy hed fro [fro altered from foo in MS.]  þe body y wyll schere,
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                                  And present hyt to my lemmon:
                                
                                  Hyt schall be so, be seynt Mahowne.
                                
                                  Now þat y am seker of Gye,
                                
                                  Yf men wolde geue me all Hungurrye,
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                                  To drynke y wolde not geue þe leue:
                                
                                  Thou myghtest me sore aftur greue.'
                                
                                  ¶ 'Lorde,' quod Gye, 'what schall y done?
                                
                                  Leeue to drynke haue y noone.'

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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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