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

                                
                                  For Gye, her lord, that was so dere;
                                
                                  And so she dyd, with-owt fayle,
                                
                                  Nyght and day with gret traveyle
                                
                                  In goddys seruyse nyȝt and daye.
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                                  All that tyme that she ther laye
                                
                                  Euer she dyd almes dede,
                                
                                  And god a-quyte well her mede; [Caius MS. 107 page 270] 
                                
                                  And euer she bad god besyly
                                
                                  That she myȝt dye after hym hastyly.
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                                  She dyed at the fourty daye
                                
                                  After Gye, as I yow seye.
                                
                                  She was beryed hastyly
                                
                                  Ryght ther be her lord sir Gye.
                                
                                  To-gedyr be they in company
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                                  In blysse: I hope to oure lady,
                                
                                  Iesus graunt vs so to do,
                                
                                  That we may com hym to.
                                
                                  Lordyngis, now have ye herd
                                
                                  Of Gye of Warewyke, how he fard,
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                                  And how he led hys long lyfe
                                
                                  In bateyle and in stryfe,
                                
                                  But euer he lovyd hevyn kyng
                                
                                  Moste ouer all thyng,
                                
                                  And god hath a-quyt hys mede,
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                                  In geste as ye have herd rede.
                                
                                  All goodnes was in that knyȝt:
                                
                                  Feyre aventures fell hym in fyȝt.
                                
                                  He was neuer yet in no stoure
                                
                                  But he had moste honoure.
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                                  When sir Terry herd ryght
                                
                                  That Gye was ded, that noble knyȝt,
                                
                                  He come into ynglond:
                                
                                  Kynge Athelstone sone he founde.
                                
                                  He told hym of the love stronge
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                                  That was be-twene hem full longe.
                                
                                  He prayed for the body of Gye þe knyȝt,

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The first or 14th-century version.
Canvas: Page 627
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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