Ac Gij wiþ strengþe to him smot
Wiþ his swerd þat wele bot.
Wel strong was þat ich fiȝt,
Ac þe soudan wered him wiþ miȝt.
Wharto schuld ich ȝou telle more?
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Þe Sarrazins ouer-comen wore:
Wele haþ Gij don þat day, [C line 3355]
As gode kniȝt & verray.
At a pas he houed riȝt,
As a kniȝt of gret miȝt;
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A gisarme he bar kerueinde,
He smot bifore & bi-hinde.
Þe Sarraȝins so he agast,
Al þat he smot to grounde he cast.
. . . . .
. . . . .
His scheld he hadde forlore,
To-hewe it lay his fet bifore.
So mani Sarrazin he slouȝ þat day,
Þat ich on oþer ded lay;
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So mani to ded þer he dede,
Þat þe hepe lay to his girdel stede.
¶ Who so seye þan Herhaud fiȝt, [C line 3369]
Of a gode kniȝt ȝelp he miȝt.
A damsax he bar on his hond:
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Al þat he rauȝt to grounde he wond;
Sarrazins he slouȝ mo þan sexti,
& Gij an hundred & fourti.
Herhaud þat day so sore swong,
Þat þurch his mouþe þe fom it sprong;
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Al to-hewe [MS. alto hewe] was his helme,
Þe blod ran out als a welme.
What schuld y make tale muche?
Þe Sarrazins þai slowen strongliche;
Ac euer he was gode, apliȝt,
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Gij of Warwike michel of miȝt,
