The romance of Guy of Warwick. The second or 15th-century version. Edited from the paper ms. Ff. 2. 38. in the University Library, Cambridge, by Dr. Julius Zupitza ...

                                
                                  And seyde, he wolde to the ryuere
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                                  Wyth hys hawkys hym to playe:
                                
                                  Hys men went wyth hym þat daye.
                                
                                  Afturwarde a lytull whyle,
                                
                                  When he was passyd but a myle,
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                                  Then came forthe Mordagowre:
                                
                                  Iwysse, he was a traytowre.
                                
                                  'Syr Gye,' he seyde, 'so haue y hele,
                                
                                  In my herte y loue the wele.
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                                  I haue castels and ryche cytees,
                                
                                  Brode londys and ryche feys:
                                
                                  All, y wyll, that they be yowre;
                                
                                  For ye be of grete valowre.
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                                  Y desyre ouyr all thynge
                                
                                  Yowre worschyp and yowre looueyng.
                                
                                  Go we now to chaumbur same
                                
                                  On some maner to make vs game,
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                                  To the chesses or to the tabels
                                
                                  Or ellys to speke of fabels
                                
                                  Before the bedde of þat feyre maye;
                                
                                  For sche the louyth boþe nyght and day.'
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                                  ¶ Into hur chaumbur þo þey yode:
                                
                                  Before hur bedde the mayde stode.
                                
                                  'Syr Gye,' sche seyde, 'welcome ye be:
                                
                                  Ys hyt yowre wylle to kysse me?'
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                                  Gye hur kyssyd curteslye
                                
                                  And sythen they spake preuelye.
                                
                                  Then downe was the chekur leyde
                                
                                  And before þe maydenys bedde dysplayde.
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                                  Gye was queynte of hys playe
                                
                                  And wanne þe furste game, wythowten nay,
                                
                                  And the tother wyth the beste
                                
                                  And the thrydde, or he wolde reste.
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                                  ¶ Vp starte the steward than
                                
                                  (He was an envyows man)
                                
                                  And seyde: 'Gye, dwelle here stylle

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Title: The romance of Guy of Warwick. The second or 15th-century version. Edited from the paper ms. Ff. 2. 38. in the University Library, Cambridge, by Dr. Julius Zupitza ...
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,; 1875-6.

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