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 ...

                                
                                  Wyth hys fawchon at a draght:
                                
                                  To the erthe he felle downe
                                
                                  Euyll at ese, be my crowne.
                                  Line 1624 
                                
                                  Then dud Gye, as felle to were:
                                
                                  In batell he toke hym there.
                                
                                  He drewe hys swerde of stele: [MS. of hys stele.] 
                                
                                  On hys hedde he hyt hym wele.
                                  Line 1628 
                                
                                  He hym toke, as in batayle:
                                
                                  That was honowre, wythowten fayle.
                                
                                  ¶ When the Almayns sye þat dede,
                                
                                  That were hardy men at nede,
                                  Line 1632 
                                
                                  How ther lorde takyn was,
                                
                                  They came to hym in that case.
                                
                                  Or they were fro þe felde ladde,
                                
                                  Many of them þe dethe had.
                                  Line 1636 
                                
                                  Now came Gye ageyn wyth game
                                
                                  And all hys felows hym wyth same.
                                
                                  He smytyth þe Almayns sare:
                                
                                  For nothynge wolde he spare.
                                  Line 1640 
                                
                                  ¶ All the men of that cyte
                                
                                  That batell myght beholde and see.
                                
                                  They went and armed them styllo
                                
                                  Bothe in yron and in stele.
                                  Line 1644 
                                
                                  Owt of the cyte can they wende
                                
                                  Gye to helpe, as men hende.
                                
                                  There men myght see strokys vnryde [MS. strokys ryde.] 
                                
                                  And knyghtys juste on euery syde:
                                  Line 1648 
                                
                                  Bothe wyth swyrde and wyth spere
                                
                                  Echoon odur sore dud dere.
                                
                                  There men myght see knyghtys crye
                                
                                  And falle downe fro þer horsys on hye,
                                  Line 1652 
                                
                                  That were woundyd swythe sore.
                                
                                  Ther dyed many men thore.
                                
                                  There was dedde in a throwe [folio 171b:2] 
                                
                                  Fyve hundurde on a rowe.

                                  Line 1656

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

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