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

                                
                                  That lyueth in ioye and in blisse:
                                
                                  Hir loue me woundeth withoute mysse.
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                                  O toure, why ne were thou ouerethrawe,
                                
                                  And vpon the grounde all to-drawe!
                                
                                  Than might y my lemman see,
                                
                                  That y loue more than me!'
                                
                                  He gynneth him bethinke and sore sighe,
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                                  His sorowe enneweth euere gretly;
                                
                                  To grounde he felle, and swowne beganne:
                                
                                  More sorowe had neuere manne.
                                
                                  The tyme he cursed that he was borne;
                                
                                  For loue he hath his witte lorne.
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                                  'O loue,' he seide, 'cursed thou bee!
                                
                                  So moche mighte is in the.
                                
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                                  Allas, Felice! that same stounde,
                                
                                  That euere thy loue hath me so stronge bounde!
                                
                                  And that y the serue shulde that daye,
                                
                                  Allas the while! nowe y sey maye.
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                                  Shall y not haue noon other mede, [Caius MS. 107 page 16] 
                                
                                  To a-slake my sorowe y had nede.
                                
                                  I loue the and thou noughte me.
                                
                                  Eeuenly deled ne that may [[read ne may that]]  bee:
                                
                                  Of all my sorowe thou hast noughte.
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                                  Allas! to grounde y am broughte!
                                
                                  Thou hast the good and y the quede:
                                
                                  I brenne as doth the sparke on glede.
                                
                                  Thou art to lither a woman,
                                
                                  That for a lokyng the vpon
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                                  A man shuld dye for that sighte:
                                
                                  Mercy, Felice, thou swete wighte!
                                
                                  Myn herte is with venym spilde;
                                
                                  With blisse nomore it is like bee filde.'

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 29
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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