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 ...

                                
                                  To venge vs on owre enmyse,
                                
                                  That haue vs stroyed in all wyse.'
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                                  ¶ 'Do way,' seyde the emperowre,
                                
                                  'For all my cyte wyth the honowre
                                
                                  Wolde not Gye do me that skathe, [After this line the catchword, That thu haste, by another hand.] 
                                
                                  That þou haste seyde here full rathe; [folio 181a:1] 
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                                  For he ys a full trewe knyght
                                
                                  Bothe be day and be nyght.
                                
                                  Y haue hym behet my doghtur dere:
                                
                                  I wyll not breke my couenande here.'
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                                  ¶ When Morgadowre sawe hyt wele,
                                
                                  That he hym louyd euery dele,
                                
                                  Of hys wordys he can forthenke;
                                
                                  But ȝyt he thoght anodur wrenke. [MS. wrenche.] 
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                                  To the chaumbur he ys gone,
                                
                                  Ther Gye was wyth þe maydyn allone.
                                
                                  When he was comen nere Gye,
                                
                                  He seyde: 'herkyn preuelye.
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                                  Gye,' he seyde, 'be seynt Mychell,
                                
                                  Y loue the in my herte well.
                                
                                  Therfore y warne þe of þy skathe:
                                
                                  I rede, that þou fle hens rathe.
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                                  Hyt ys tolde the emperowre,
                                
                                  That þou wyth strenckyþ haste brokyn hys bowre
                                
                                  And hys doghtur þou haste by layne:
                                
                                  Therof ys he nothynge fayne.
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                                  He sware be hys ryght hande,
                                
                                  Yf þou be fowndyn in hys lande,
                                
                                  Thou schalt be drawe and hongyd hye:
                                
                                  No nodur dethe schalt thou dye.
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                                  Hye the hens for anythynge:
                                
                                  Loke, thou make no dwellynge.
                                
                                  Yf ye be fownde in thys cyte,
                                
                                  Thou muste be slayne and þy meyne.'

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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,; 1875-6.

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