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 ...

                                
                                  A swythe feyre cyte stonde:
                                  Line 8700 
                                
                                  But [MS. Bothe. Cf. the Caius MS. p. 201, But, for soth, the wallis of that town.]  the wallys of that towne
                                
                                  To þe ȝerthe were brokyn downe.
                                
                                  ¶ 'Lorde,' seyde a marynere,
                                
                                  'Moche sorow schall we haue here.
                                  Line 8704 
                                
                                  We be now faste ryuande
                                
                                  Into the kynge Harkes [Corrupt for Argus, which the Caius MS. has.]  lande.
                                
                                  He ys a full ryche kynge
                                
                                  Of golde and syluyr and other þynge.
                                  Line 8708 
                                
                                  Then seyde Harrowde: 'who owyth þys cuntre,
                                
                                  That ys dystroyed, and thys cyte?'
                                
                                  'Syr,' seyde a schypman,
                                
                                  'Ther ys none so felle to fleme Jordan.
                                  Line 8712 
                                
                                  Y schall yow telle, as y can.
                                
                                  Hyt ys admyrals Presane:
                                
                                  He hatyth crysten men echon.
                                
                                  Full well y wote, he wyll vs slone.
                                  Line 8716 
                                
                                  The kyng Harkes hath seged hym here
                                
                                  And stroyed þys londe bothe far and nere.'
                                
                                  ¶ Wyth þat þe paynyms were kene [Line 8719 is repeated as the next line in MS. thus, Wyth that the paynyms were kene.] 
                                
                                  And armed them all bedene,
                                  Line 8720 
                                
                                  And Harrowde and hys companye
                                
                                  They broght þem to þer lorde [MS. to þat londe. But cf. the Caius MS. p. 201, And browt hem to her lord in hye.]  in hye,
                                
                                  And caste them in hys pryson all:
                                
                                  Of mete and drynke they had small.
                                  Line 8724 
                                
                                  ¶ When the dewke Merof hyt fonde,
                                
                                  That syr Harrowde was owt of þat londe,
                                
                                  He gedurde grete ooste of Cornwayle
                                
                                  And þe stewarde faste he can assayle;
                                  Line 8728 
                                
                                  But he hym defendyd day and nyght
                                
                                  Full well, as a doghty knyght.

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