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 ...

                                
                                  To fyght wyth vs here in hye.'
                                
                                  To the cyte be they gone,
                                
                                  Gye and hys men euerychone.
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                                  The knyghtys were bolde and hende:
                                
                                  To the wallys can they wende.
                                
                                  There þey wyll þemselfe defende,
                                
                                  Tyll Jesu Cryste them helpe sende
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                                  ¶ When þe emperowre of þys harde,
                                
                                  How hys sone syr Gayer farde,
                                
                                  To hys men can he say:
                                
                                  'Assembull yow thys ylke day.
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                                  Wende yow forthe to þat cyte:
                                
                                  All avaunsyd schall ye bee.'
                                
                                  ¶ Now þey can forthe fare,
                                
                                  To the cyte they come yare.
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                                  They schette dartes and speres amonge
                                
                                  Wyth abblasters, that were stronge.
                                
                                  So þey schett wyth harowes small
                                
                                  And sett laddurs to the walle.
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                                  Wyth ingynes þey caste stones
                                
                                  And breke the walles for þe nones.
                                
                                  They defendyd þe towne wythynne:
                                
                                  A stronge batayle they begynne.
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                                  Of the Almayns there that day [folio 176a:1] 
                                
                                  Many bare the dethe away.
                                
                                  ¶ The emperowre had sorowe and syght, [MS. syghed.] 
                                
                                  That he ne may be vengyd ryght.
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                                  Euery day, wythowten fayle,
                                
                                  He made hys men þe cyte to assayle,
                                
                                  But the dewke, Gye and Harrawte
                                
                                  Made mony a grete sawte,
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                                  That ther enmyes had grete skathe.
                                
                                  Therwyth þe emperowre was wrathe.
                                
                                  ¶ Hyt was on a somers day,
                                
                                  As y the sothe telle may:

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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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