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 ...

                                
                                  'Syr,' he seyde, 'wyth gode entente
                                
                                  We schall do thy comawndement.'
                                
                                  ¶ Now haue þey ther leue tane,
                                
                                  To ther innes be they gone.
                                  Line 1764 
                                
                                  On the morne, when hyt was day,
                                
                                  Vp þey rose and went ther way,
                                
                                  All the captens wyth moche ooste.
                                
                                  All they wente: they made boste.
                                  Line 1768 
                                
                                  To the cyte they came bolde,
                                
                                  Twenty hundurde scheldys tolde.
                                
                                  ¶ When they sye in that cyte
                                
                                  Men wythowte grete plente, [folio 172b:1] 
                                  Line 1772 
                                
                                  The bellus faste dud they rynge.
                                
                                  I wote, they made no dwellynge:
                                
                                  They armed them, as Gye badde,
                                
                                  Euery man, that harnes hadde.
                                  Line 1776 
                                
                                  When þey were come to syr Gye,
                                
                                  To fyght they were redy
                                
                                  The dewke clepyd Gye there
                                
                                  And bad, yf hys wylle were,
                                  Line 1780 
                                
                                  That Harrawde schulde haue wyth hym eche dell
                                
                                  Fyve hundurde knyghtys armed well
                                
                                  And wende forthe, wythowte fayle,
                                
                                  Boldely them for to assayle,
                                  Line 1784 
                                
                                  'And ye, syr Gye, a thousande
                                
                                  Bolde men and wele bydande:
                                
                                  And, yf he haue mystere.
                                
                                  Helpe hym wyth gode chere.
                                  Line 1788 
                                
                                  And y wyll come wyth my mayne
                                
                                  Faste prekynge aftur the.
                                
                                  We [MS. Ye.]  schall so wyth them fyght
                                
                                  Wyth goddys grace and owre myght,
                                  Line 1792 
                                
                                  That we schall haue the maystrye.'
                                
                                  'Thou seyest wele,' seyde Gye. [1793 after 1794 in MS.] 
                                
                                  'Wendyth forthe for to fonde:

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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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