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 ...

                                
                                  For hym had grete pyte.
                                
                                  To the emperowre he ys gone:
                                
                                  A branche of olyfe hath he tane.
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                                  Barefote he went þorow þe strete:
                                
                                  Many a man for hym dud grete. [MS. wepe.] 
                                
                                  Dewkys, erles and barons
                                
                                  Went wyth hym, þat were prysons. [MS. prysoners.] 
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                                  They went to the churchewarde:
                                
                                  God þem spede and seynt Rycharde!
                                
                                  ¶ When they were to churche come,
                                
                                  The emperowre they fonde anon.
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                                  'Syr emperowre,' seyde Segwyne,
                                
                                  'Ye haue had for me grete pyne.
                                
                                  Syr,' he seyde, 'y wyll be dedde
                                
                                  Ryght in þys same stedde
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                                  Or be drawe wyth horsys stronge
                                
                                  Or ellys on galows hye to honge.
                                
                                  Haue here thys swyrde bryght [folio 177b:1] 
                                
                                  And smyte of my hed ryght.
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                                  Take my londys and my fees,
                                
                                  My castels and my cytees.
                                
                                  I them the graunte vtterlye;
                                
                                  For y dud that folye,
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                                  When y slewe thy cosyn dere,
                                
                                  Me defendawnt on all manere.
                                
                                  The dewke of Coloyne [MS. Coleyne.]  was þer ryght
                                
                                  And many an nodur doghty knyght:
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                                  Yf any be, that sey therageyne,
                                
                                  That he wyth felonye was slayne,
                                
                                  Yf y may not defende me,
                                
                                  Hangyd be y on a tree.'
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                                  ¶ 'Leue fadur,' seyde Gayer,
                                
                                  'Haue mercy on the dewke here.
                                
                                  He may yow helpe in yowre mystere
                                
                                  In euery londe farre and nere.

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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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