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 ...

                                
                                  All for pryde and for boste.
                                  Line 2216 
                                
                                  Yf we haue the wars syde,
                                
                                  Into the cyte wyll we ryde.'
                                
                                  ¶ Nowe be þey an hundurde bolde
                                
                                  Wyght men and wele of tolde.
                                  Line 2220 
                                
                                  They wente, wythowten fayle,
                                
                                  Syr Gayer to assayle.
                                
                                  Of all þe Almayns þey wyll be wreke:
                                
                                  Of no corde wyll they speke.
                                  Line 2224 
                                
                                  To fyght they begynne faste:
                                
                                  Some were of þer horsys caste.
                                
                                  Gye smote Gayer there:
                                
                                  Of hys hors he dud hym bere.
                                  Line 2228 
                                
                                  There he was take wyth myght and mayne.
                                
                                  Hys men flewe to the ooste agayne:
                                
                                  So were they chaced at the laste, [folio 175b:1] 
                                
                                  That ther hertys almoste braste.
                                  Line 2232 
                                
                                  Some were woundyd and some tane
                                
                                  And some scaped and some slane. [MS. slayne.] 
                                
                                  ¶ When the ooste sye ther men
                                
                                  So faste toward them renne
                                  Line 2236 
                                
                                  And wyste also, that Gayere
                                
                                  Was takyn, wyth euyll chere
                                
                                  They hastyd them swythe
                                
                                  The dewke to brynge owt of lyue.
                                  Line 2240 
                                
                                  Than beganne a grete fyght:
                                
                                  Knyghtys many dyed ryght.
                                
                                  Grete lore was thore,
                                
                                  But the dewke had the more.
                                  Line 2244 
                                
                                  He hath lorne many of hys men:
                                
                                  They were awey ladde then.
                                
                                  The dewke passed myles thre
                                
                                  From hys men and hys cyte,
                                  Line 2248 
                                
                                  But neuer the lees þey dud well,
                                
                                  And so dud Gye, as haue y hele.

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