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 ...

                                
                                  That durste speke so to me ere.'
                                
                                  Gye seyde: 'y schall the saye
                                
                                  My name, or y wende awaye.
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                                  I wyll þe nor no nodur beswyke.
                                
                                  Y am Gye of Warwyke.'
                                
                                  ¶ 'Art thou,' he seyde, 'þat ylke page,
                                
                                  That hast done me all þe owtrage?
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                                  Thou slewe my cosyn Coldrane:
                                
                                  Hys hedde thou smote of allone.
                                
                                  I schall neuyr ete bredde
                                
                                  To day, or þat þou be dedde.
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                                  Thy lorde the louyd nothynge,
                                
                                  When he comawndyd þe þys message to brynge.
                                
                                  Now y schall vengyd [g in vengyd has not quite its regular form.]  bee:
                                
                                  Thou schalt be hongyd on a tree.'
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                                  ¶ He comawndyd, he schulde be tane
                                
                                  And in a pytte caste allone.
                                
                                  When he had etyn and made hym at ese,
                                
                                  He thoght Gye for to sese.
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                                  Abowte Gye was grete thronge.
                                
                                  'God wott,' quod he, 'y stonde to longe.'
                                
                                  There he faryd, as he wolde wede:
                                
                                  Wyth hys spurrys he stroke hys stede.
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                                  'Sowdan,' he seyde, 'þou schalt abye
                                
                                  Furste of all thys companye.'
                                
                                  He smote the sowdan wyth hys sworde,
                                
                                  That the hedde trendyld on þe borde.
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                                  The hedde he toke in hys honde:
                                
                                  Owte of þe pales dud he wonde.
                                
                                  He smote of many a hevydde [MS. hedde.] 
                                
                                  Of þem, þat wolde haue hyt fro hym revydde.
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                                  The hedde wyth strenckyþ awey he bare
                                
                                  And knytt hyt in hys lappe thare.
                                
                                  ¶ Faste he pryckyd þorowe þe ooste
                                
                                  On hys stede, þat moche coste.

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

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