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 kyssyd hym there full soone
                                
                                  And hys sonnes euerychone
                                
                                  And wythowte any respyte [folio 214b:2] 
                                
                                  Of pryson he made þem þere quyte.
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                                  'Erle,' seyde tho the kynge,
                                
                                  'Thou schalt be my darlynge.'
                                
                                  ¶ The kynge seyde: 'lorde, þat þe wroght,
                                
                                  Geue, hyt were in thy thoght
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                                  To dwelle stylle here wyth me.
                                
                                  Golde and syluyr y wolde geue the:
                                
                                  I wolde geue parte of my londe
                                
                                  To cese hyt now into þy honde.'
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                                  Gye seyde: 'hyt ys not in my thoght:
                                
                                  To dwelle wyth þe kepe y noght.'
                                
                                  ¶ The erle at þe kynge toke hys leue
                                
                                  And prayed hym, þat he wolde hym not greue.
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                                  To Jerusalem, the gode towne,
                                
                                  The erle Joonas þoght to gone.
                                
                                  But he at Gyes partynge
                                
                                  Wolde wytt of hym some tythynge
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                                  And, as they wente on þer waye,
                                
                                  At þer partynge þe erle can say:
                                
                                  'Telle me, syr, for seynt Symonde,
                                
                                  What ys þy name, in þys stownde,
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                                  That makyste vs to clepe the
                                
                                  Other weyes, then hyt schulde bee.
                                
                                  I prey the, now we be same,
                                
                                  Telle to me thy ryght name.
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                                  I prey þe for þe loue of þe trynyte,
                                
                                  Thy ryght name þou layne not fro me.
                                
                                  ¶ Then seyde Gye to hym in haste:
                                
                                  'Erle Joonas, be Jesu Cryste,
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                                  Loke, that þou layne hyt wole.
                                
                                  Yf þou me bewrye, hyt ys dole.
                                
                                  Gye of Warwyk ys my name.
                                
                                  Yf þou me bewrye, þou mayste me shame.

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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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