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 ...

                                
                                  I schall þe caste in stronge presowne.
                                  Line 9212 
                                
                                  Thys vii yere þou schalt not passe away:
                                
                                  Thou schalt not wytt, when hyt ys day.
                                
                                  Men schall so chastyse soche glotons
                                
                                  For to myssaye gentyll barons.'
                                  Line 9216 
                                
                                  ¶ 'A, gode syr,' seyde Gye, 'what be ye? [Corrupt. See the note.] 
                                
                                  A nobull baron ye seme to bee.
                                
                                  I sawe yow neuer are, syr, verelye:
                                
                                  Ye seme bothe bolde and hardye.
                                  Line 9220 
                                
                                  To do a pylgryme skathe vtterlye
                                
                                  To yow hyt were grete vylenye.
                                
                                  Hyt wolde yow turne to muche owtrage,
                                
                                  When ye be of so grete lynage.
                                  Line 9224 
                                
                                  I seyde here no nodur thynge
                                
                                  (Y take recorde of the kynge),
                                
                                  But wyth synne and vnryght
                                
                                  That ye had dysheryted Tyrrye þe knyȝt
                                  Line 9228 
                                
                                  And chased hym fro hys londe,
                                
                                  Becawse ye bere hym wronge on honde,
                                
                                  That yowre cosyn schulde be dedde
                                
                                  Thorowe hym and hys redde.
                                  Line 9232 
                                
                                  Ofte harde y sey, wytterlye,
                                
                                  That he was nothynge geltye.'
                                
                                  ¶ Then spake þe dewke wyth yre:
                                
                                  'Be [Be added in the margin by the same hand.]  god, that made water and fyre,
                                  Line 9236 
                                
                                  Ȝyf þou were that same knyght,
                                
                                  That durste for Tyrrye take þe fyght!'
                                
                                  Tho Gye answeryd wythowten more
                                
                                  (He sawe þe dewke greuyd sore):
                                  Line 9240 
                                
                                  'Lo, here ys my gloue all redye
                                
                                  For to fyght for erle Tyrrye,
                                
                                  That he neuer [neuer omitted in MS. Cf. line 9332, and the Caius MS. p. 219: He slew neuer the duke Otoun.]  slewe þe dewke Oton, [folio 220b:2]

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