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 ...

                                
                                  Or they were of of the felde wente,
                                
                                  Many were slayne and all toschente.
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                                  Ȝyt was Astadart behynde,
                                
                                  That the crysten men schende;
                                
                                  But he flewe at the laste
                                
                                  On a rabett swyfte and faste.
                                  Line 2924 
                                
                                  Hys gode schelde was fro hym reeuyd,
                                
                                  His helme was broke to [Before to the abbreviation of and is blotted out.]  hys heuydde. [MS. hedde.] 
                                
                                  Gye hym sawe and was drerye,
                                
                                  That he schulde passe so lyghtlye.
                                  Line 2928 
                                
                                  Gye faste aftur hym dud ryde:
                                
                                  For nothynge he wolde abyde.
                                
                                  'Astadart,' seyde Gye, 'turne the
                                
                                  And oon tyme juste wyth me.
                                  Line 2932 
                                
                                  Be the trowthe, þat y leue on,
                                
                                  Here ys no man, but y allone.'
                                
                                  ¶ Then seyde Astadart to syr Gye:
                                
                                  'I the swere, wytterlye,
                                  Line 2936 
                                
                                  Be thys day and be my browe
                                
                                  And be Mahownde, þat y in trowe,
                                
                                  I schall neuer be glad nor blythe,
                                
                                  Or y haue thy hedd swythe.
                                  Line 2940 
                                
                                  Y haue behet hyt to my lemman,
                                
                                  That ys the doghter of the sowdan.' [folio 180a:1] 
                                
                                  ¶ He turned hym and faght faste:
                                
                                  Ther was nother of other agaste.
                                  Line 2944 
                                
                                  Astadart smote Gyone
                                
                                  Thorowe hawberke and hakatone
                                
                                  Ynto the body wyth a spere:
                                
                                  Soche a dynte had he neuer ere.
                                  Line 2948 
                                
                                  Wyth yre Gye smote hym in felde:
                                
                                  Ther sauyd hym nodur hawberk nor shelde.
                                
                                  He smote hym wyth grete envye
                                
                                  Wyth a spere thorow the bodye.

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

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