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

                                
                                  Of huntes ne of houndes adrad he:
                                
                                  He ouer-ernnes dounes & cuntre,
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                                  Þe brod lond, and þe valays:
                                
                                  Folwed he is ich weys.
                                
                                  Hij of-ernned her stedes þo,
                                
                                  Of him wondred kniȝtes, huntes also.
                                
                                  Alle þe houndes þat folwed him þere
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                                  Oȝain turned, oþer ded were,
                                
                                  Wiþouten blod houndes þre:
                                
                                  Into Braban folwed he.
                                
                                  Þer nas hunt no kniȝt non,
                                
                                  Seriaunt no sweyn no grom
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                                  Þat wist widerward þe bore gan te,
                                
                                  Into whiche lond no what cuntre.
                                
                                  Gij him folwed on his stede,
                                
                                  Wiþ swerd in hond after he ȝede,
                                
                                  & wiþ horn oft bloweing,
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                                  Þe bore swiþe driueing. [C line 6445] 
                                
                                  Gij drof [A letter erased before d.]  þat swine wiþ game & gle [The g altered from b.] 
                                
                                  Right into Breteyne þan went he.
                                
                                  Into a forest þat [The t added above the line.]  swine him ȝede,
                                
                                  Into a þicke hegges he gan him hede.
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                                  Þer he stod at abay, [a bay MS.]  [folio 143b:b] 
                                
                                  & werd him while þat he may.
                                
                                  When Gij þat stern swine y sey
                                
                                  Adoun he lepe of his stede heye:
                                
                                  Wiþ boþe honden þat swerd he held,
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                                  & cam to þe bore as a kniȝt beld.
                                
                                  Þat swine anon oȝain him com,
                                
                                  And Gij smertlich smot him anon,
                                
                                  Þat þe hert he clef euen atvo:
                                
                                  Alle ded he fel to grounde þo.
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                                  He open[ed] þat swine & blewe priis.
                                
                                  Alon he was, him miȝt agriis:
                                
                                  Alto fer he was fram his kniȝt.
                                
                                  Bot on him þinke god almiȝt,

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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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