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 ...

                                
                                  That the kynge Anlate [The first letter in the name of the King of Denmark is in part gone, in consequence of a worm-hole. But if we may conjecture from what remains, it was not A, but E.]  of Denmarke,
                                
                                  That ys full felle, styffe and starke,
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                                  Wyl come on vs wyth moche heer
                                
                                  All owre londes for to dere
                                
                                  And þem to haue wyth grete myght,
                                
                                  But we defende vs wyth grete fyght.
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                                  Many yerys hyt ys gone,
                                
                                  Syth he claymed thys kyngdome.'
                                
                                  ¶ Then answeryd syr Harrawte:
                                
                                  'We dowte hym not, wythowte defawte.
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                                  Yf þey come in yowre landes,
                                
                                  We schall þem sloo wyth owre handes.
                                
                                  Gode men haue ye and cytees stronge:
                                
                                  Ye nede not to dowte none of hys wronge.
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                                  In olde dayes, men seyden, aplyght,
                                
                                  That Danes schulde haue þys lande wyth ryȝt;
                                
                                  But þorow batell þey were slone:
                                
                                  Therfore now ryght haue þey none.
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                                  But now comawnde thy barowns,
                                
                                  Tho that haue castels and townes,
                                
                                  Wyth horse and harnes to be made ȝare [folio 216a:2] 
                                
                                  Into batell wyth the to fare
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                                  And to yowre knyghtys of armes all,
                                
                                  That þey be redy at yowre calle:
                                
                                  They may yow helpe on all manere,
                                
                                  What tyme ye haue to þem mystere,
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                                  Or þey haue yowre londe wythowten ryght,
                                
                                  Yf the Danes wyth yow fyght.
                                
                                  For yowre men þen schall be redy
                                
                                  And fyght wyth þem well manlye.
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                                  Thorow helpe of god all weldande
                                
                                  We schall haue the hyer hande.'
                                
                                  ¶ 'Syr,' seyde the kynge, 'wythowten fayle,

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

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