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 ...

                                
                                  When he sye hys blode so tamedde.
                                
                                  Soche a stroke he smote to Gye
                                
                                  Hye on hys helme, sekerlye:
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                                  The flowre felle and þe serkyll also,
                                
                                  The schelde he carue also in twoo.
                                
                                  Of soche a strokk y haue not harde.
                                
                                  Stronglye Gye was aferde.
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                                  Sythen Gye wyth hys honde
                                
                                  Stroke vnto Collebronde
                                
                                  And hym smote so, os y yow seye,
                                
                                  That þorow þe schelde hyt wente, par faye,
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                                  That hys swyrde stycked faste.
                                
                                  Tho was Gye sore agaste:
                                
                                  Hys swyrde brake wyth the vpbrayde,
                                
                                  And therwyth was Gye dysmayede.
                                  Line 10304 
                                
                                  ¶ Now the Danes prowde bene
                                
                                  And seyde þemselfe þem betwene,
                                
                                  That Gye was þen ouercomen
                                
                                  And the kynge yschente and ynomen.
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                                  'Knyght,' seyde Collebrande,
                                
                                  'Thou haste no wepyn in þy hande.
                                
                                  To werre þe þou art not myghtye:
                                
                                  Come to me and crye mercye, [folio 227b:2] 
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                                  And y schall haue mercy of the,
                                
                                  Wyth that thou wylt beseche me.
                                
                                  Y see, thou art an hardy man,
                                
                                  Syn þou to fyght wyth me began.
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                                  And to my kynge y schall þe brynge:
                                
                                  He wyll be gladde of that tyþynge.
                                
                                  Thou schalt wyth hym acordyd bee:
                                
                                  He schall the geue ryche fee.'
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                                  ¶ 'Nay,' quod Gye, 'þerof speke noght;
                                
                                  For þerto schall hyt neuer be broght,
                                
                                  That y schulde the mercye crye:
                                
                                  Y wolde thynke hyt vylenye.
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                                  Thogh þat y haue lorne my bronde,

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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,; 1875-6.

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