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 ...

                                
                                  Yf þey may gete the mowntayne,
                                
                                  We schall be takyn all or slayne.
                                  Line 3304 
                                
                                  Yf we haue the hylle and þey þe dale,
                                
                                  We schall þem worche moche bale.'
                                
                                  ¶ They caste stones and schett dartes
                                
                                  And scharpe speres on all partes.
                                  Line 3308 
                                
                                  They schett arows heded wyth stele;
                                
                                  They faght wyth scharpe swyrdys wele.
                                
                                  Gye, y wott, was well bolde:
                                
                                  He gedurd them, as schyp in folde.
                                  Line 3312 
                                
                                  When Gye was vppon the hylle,
                                
                                  He made them sone to fare full ylle,
                                
                                  That in ther downe fallynge
                                
                                  Echoon slewe odur, wythowt lesynge;
                                  Line 3316 
                                
                                  So that in a lytull stownde
                                
                                  Tenne thousande were broght to grownde.
                                
                                  ¶ When he hym sawe, þe kynge of Tyre,
                                
                                  Forthe he start wyth mekyll yre.
                                  Line 3320 
                                
                                  He bare a swyrde longe and scharpe:
                                
                                  He thoght to crysten men to carpe.
                                
                                  He smote a knyght on the heuydde: [MS. hedde.] 
                                
                                  Hys lyfe þere was hym bereeuydde.
                                  Line 3324 
                                
                                  When Gye sawe that owtrage,
                                
                                  He thoght to quyte hym hys wage.
                                
                                  He smote the kynge wondur sore:
                                
                                  He cleuyd hys crowne, he speke no more.
                                  Line 3328 
                                
                                  He slewe paynyms thyckfolde,
                                
                                  That on the hylle lay full colde.
                                
                                  ¶ When the sowdan see hys men,
                                
                                  How they in the felde ranne, [Perhaps originally renne?] 
                                  Line 3332 
                                
                                  He clepyd the kynge of Nvmbye:
                                
                                  He was of grete felonye. [folio 182b:1] 
                                
                                  'Kyng,' he seyde, 'seyst þou noght,
                                
                                  How owre men be downe [dere blotted out before downe in MS.]  broght?

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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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