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 ...

                                
                                  ¶ 'Allas,' he seyde, 'that ys wronge.
                                
                                  Nowe haue y dwellyd here to longe,
                                
                                  When y schall for my mede
                                
                                  Suffur dethe for my gode dede.
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                                  For anythynge, þat euer y wroght,
                                
                                  Wythowte gylte hyt ys on me broght.
                                
                                  To day at morne, so haue y hele,
                                
                                  Be hys worde he louyd me wele.
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                                  Who may leue anythynge
                                
                                  In feyre wordys or feyre behetynge?
                                
                                  To day, when he to rever yede, [folio 181a:2] 
                                
                                  He hyght me londe and moche mede.
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                                  Wyth wronge he wyll slo me here
                                
                                  For the wordys of a losengere.'
                                
                                  ¶ Owt of þe chaumbur Gye ys went
                                
                                  All drery wyth hevy entent.
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                                  To hys ynne he ys gone
                                
                                  And calde hys felows euerychone.
                                
                                  'Lordyngys,' he seyde, 'arme yow all sone.
                                
                                  Here ys no dwellyng for vs to wonne.
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                                  We ben bewryed to the emperowre,
                                
                                  That we schulde do hym dyshonowre.
                                
                                  Be hym, that made sonne and moone
                                
                                  And for vs was on rode done,
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                                  Or we be tane and slayne wyth wronge,
                                
                                  Many of them schall dye amonge.
                                
                                  Than schall they wytt, wytterlye,
                                
                                  That we be flemed falselye.'
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                                  ¶ They armed þem hastyly þat tyde
                                
                                  And on þer horsys þey can stryde.
                                
                                  Gye went wyth hys mayne
                                
                                  Wyth wrath [f blotted out before wrath in MS.]  fro that cyte.
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                                  Toward the soudan can þey fare
                                
                                  To serue hym and dwelle thare.
                                
                                  ¶ Tho came home the emperowre

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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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