The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.

                                
                                  It semeþ wele, so þenkeþ me,
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                                  Fram gret periil aschaped be ȝe.
                                
                                  Whare his Herhaud, þi kniȝt so fre?
                                
                                  Alle þine kniȝtes where ben he?'
                                
                                  'Ich-il þe telle,' þan seyd sir Gij.
                                
                                  'Now vnder-stond ich am sori.'
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                                  Þan teld he him al þat cas,
                                
                                  Hou þerl Tirri wounded was,
                                
                                  & hou he hadde y-heled his wounde,
                                
                                  & socurd his fader, & ost him founde,
                                
                                  & hou he passed him self vnnome,
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                                  & hou þai were þurch traisoun ouer-come,
                                
                                  & hou his felawes weren y-nome,
                                
                                  & hou þat he was þider y-come,
                                
                                  & hou Tirri was y-nomen þo
                                
                                  & þe gode Herhaud also,
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                                  & wiþ hem fif hundred kniȝtes,
                                
                                  Orped men & gode in fiȝtes.
                                
                                  'Y not ȝif þai be liues or dede:
                                
                                  Al ich hem sey nimen & lede.'
                                
                                  When Gij hadde y-teld þat cas,
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                                  Hou iuel him bifallen was, [C line 5751] 
                                
                                  'Suffre awhile, sir,' quaþ he.
                                
                                  'Ȝif it is þi wille listen to me.
                                
                                  Ich haue castels & cites strong
                                
                                  Mani and fele in mi lond:
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                                  Alle ichil bitake þe,
                                
                                  Mine kniȝtes ichil [An s erased after the ch.]  of-sende to me:
                                
                                  Fif hundred ich of-sende may,
                                
                                  Þat schal do þi wille niȝt and day.
                                
                                  Alle þat to min erldom falleþ y wil it be
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                                  To þine wille so schal com to þe.
                                
                                  Wende we wille to þe douk Otoun, [MS. of toun.] 
                                
                                  And bring him to destruccioun.
                                
                                  His londes we schul þurch-ernne,
                                
                                  & his castels felle, & his tounes bernne,

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & co., limited,; 1883, 1887, 1891.
Subject terms: Guy of Warwick (Legendary character)

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