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 ...

                                
                                  Thou semeste trauelde for to be:
                                
                                  Where were þou borne and in what cuntre?'
                                  Line 9180 
                                
                                  'Syr,' he seyde, 'ye schall vndurstande,
                                
                                  That y haue be in mony a lande:
                                
                                  In Jerusalem and in Surrye
                                
                                  And in Costantyne þe nobull, sekerlye.'
                                  Line 9184 
                                
                                  ¶ 'Pylgryme,' he seyde, 'be thy lewte,
                                
                                  What sey men þere of me?'
                                
                                  'Syr,' he seyde, 'ye schall here:
                                
                                  Schame and skathe on all manere,
                                  Line 9188 
                                
                                  When ye thorow wyckyd cownceyle
                                
                                  Of yowre steward, þat may [may in the same hand over myȝt blotted out.]  not avayle,
                                
                                  That ye [For That ye we ought perhaps to read Haue. Cf. the Caius MS. p. 217, Hath banesshyd Terry, the noble knyȝt.]  banysched Tyrrye, þe knyȝt,
                                
                                  And many odur wythowten ryght.
                                  Line 9192 
                                
                                  Therfore of þe ys spokyn schame
                                
                                  And in euery londe moche blame.
                                
                                  Ye do yowreselfe moche dyshonowre
                                
                                  To leue soche a losengeowre.'
                                  Line 9196 
                                
                                  ¶ Barrarde harde, that Gye sayde,
                                
                                  And he beganne to geue a brayde.
                                
                                  He fared, as a wode man,
                                
                                  And wolde haue smeten Gye than,
                                  Line 9200 
                                
                                  But he hym helde, þat stode hym bye,
                                
                                  That he dud Gye no vylanye.
                                
                                  He seyde: 'thou lyest, traytowre.
                                
                                  Yf hyt were not for the dyshonowre [folio 220b:1] 
                                  Line 9204 
                                
                                  Of my lorde, the emperowre,
                                
                                  Thou schuldyst haue a scharpe schowre.
                                
                                  I schulde schake þy berde so sore,
                                
                                  That thy tethe schulde falle me before
                                  Line 9208 
                                
                                  Thou art a lyar and þat a stronge:
                                
                                  Thys lyfe haste þou vsyd longe.
                                
                                  If y the fynde wythowte þe towne,

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