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

                                
                                  I was a dowty man of honde,
                                
                                  And to me there fyll much lande.
                                
                                  I was a man bold and wyght:
                                
                                  Erle Ionas some tyme I hyght.
                                
                                  I had sonnes full fyftene,
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                                  And bold men and kene.
                                
                                  I wene there was neuer man levande,
                                
                                  Syth crystendome was brought in hand,
                                
                                  That had so many sonnes wyght:
                                
                                  Euerych was a man att all ryght.
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                                  All they be take fro me a-weye:
                                
                                  Alas that euer I sye thys daye!
                                
                                  Att a batayle I was stronge;
                                
                                  The sarzins dyd grete wronge:
                                
                                  To Ierusalem com they were,
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                                  And dystroyed all that was there:
                                
                                  I gaderyd an hoste of meny a towne
                                
                                  Owte of the crysten nacion,
                                
                                  I com to that bateyle thann: [Caius MS. 107 page 156] 
                                
                                  There dyed many a dowȝty man.
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                                  I and my sonnes fyftene
                                
                                  Mad the sarzins for to flene.
                                
                                  In that tyme tokyn we
                                
                                  Sevyn amerallys and kyngis thre.
                                
                                  I and my sonnes chasyd thorough the lande
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                                  A kyng that was fast fleande:

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 421
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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