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 of no tresure yf y noght.
                                  Line 9144 
                                
                                  To that cyte wyll we gone:
                                
                                  Me þynkyth, we be to longe fro home.'
                                
                                  ¶ 'I graunte,' in haste seyde syr Gye:
                                
                                  Bothe they wente forthe in hye.
                                  Line 9148 
                                
                                  Then wenyd Tyrrye knowen to haue be
                                
                                  Of some man, þat hym had see.
                                
                                  When they came to that cyte,
                                
                                  A sory man was erle Tyrrye.
                                  Line 9152 
                                
                                  They were harbarowde at þe townes ende
                                
                                  And aftur mete dud they sende.
                                
                                  ¶ Gye rose vp, full hardelye,
                                
                                  And lefte hys swyrde wyth Tyrrye.
                                  Line 9156 
                                
                                  He hyed faste to the towre
                                
                                  To speke wyth the emperowre.
                                
                                  The emperowre fro the churche come,
                                
                                  Gye hym kepyd sone and anon;
                                  Line 9160 
                                
                                  And Gye hym grett hendelye,
                                
                                  As a man, that cowde of curtesye.
                                
                                  'God saue [he blotted out before þe in MS.]  þe,' he seyde, 'syr emperowre.
                                
                                  Ye be a man of grete valowre,
                                  Line 9164 
                                
                                  And y am pore and of far cuntre: [folio 220a:2] 
                                
                                  I aske the gode for charyte.
                                
                                  Of yowre helpe y haue mystere,
                                
                                  As ye may se, in all manere.'
                                  Line 9168 
                                
                                  The emperowre answeryd: 'gladlye
                                
                                  I wyll þe helpe, be seynt Marye.
                                
                                  To the pales come wyth me:
                                
                                  Thou schalt haue mete to plese þe.'
                                  Line 9172 
                                
                                  ¶ When þey were comen to þe halle,
                                
                                  The emperowre and hys meyne all,
                                
                                  The lordys to the mete yode,
                                
                                  And Gye there before þem stode.
                                  Line 9176 
                                
                                  'Pylgryme,' seyde the emperowre,
                                
                                  'Telle me, y prey þe pur amowre.

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