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 ...

                                
                                  For the y wyll my lyfe forgoon.'
                                
                                  ¶ When Gye had seyde thys reson,
                                
                                  Therwythall he felle downe.
                                  Line 352 
                                
                                  Felyce on Gye began to loke
                                
                                  And in hur armes hym vp toke.
                                
                                  'Gye,' sche seyde, 'be nowe stylle.
                                
                                  Here me, yf hyt be yowre wylle.
                                  Line 356 
                                
                                  Knyghtys and erlys y haue forsake,
                                
                                  That wolde me to wyfe take.
                                
                                  And y loued now a yong [take blotted out before knaue in MS.]  knaue,
                                
                                  How schulde y my worschyp save?
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                                  When þou art dubbed a knyght
                                
                                  And proued well in euery fyght,
                                
                                  Then, for sothe, hyght y the,
                                
                                  That þou schalt haue þe loue of me.'
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                                  When thys harde Gyeowne,
                                
                                  For yoye in swownyng he felle adowne.
                                
                                  Felyce spake to hym wyth mowthe
                                
                                  And comefortyd hym, as sche well cowthe.
                                  Line 368 
                                
                                  He rose vp fro swownyng
                                
                                  And toke leue at þe maydyn ȝyng.
                                
                                  Owt of þe ȝarde he went aryght,
                                
                                  To hys inne he well sone hym dyght.
                                  Line 372 
                                
                                  There he was to þe secunde daye, [folio 163b:1] 
                                
                                  That hys sekenes went awaye.
                                
                                  ¶ When Gye had couyrde hys estate,
                                
                                  To þe erlys court he toke þe gate.
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                                  Well feyre Gye the Erle grett,
                                
                                  Before hym on hys kneys he hym sett.
                                
                                  'Syr,' he seyde, 'y prey the,
                                
                                  That þou knyght dubbe me.
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                                  Yf þou wylt me þe ordur yeue,
                                
                                  I wyll the serue, whyll þat y leue.'
                                
                                  The Erle grauntyd hym hys boone
                                
                                  And seyde: 'þou schalt be dubbed soone.'

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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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