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 ...

                                
                                  He strokyd hym on þe rygge ofte
                                
                                  And leyde hys hande hys hedde on lofte.
                                
                                  The lyon walowed on the grownde
                                
                                  Before Gye, as dothe an hownde.
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                                  Sythen he playde wyth hym faste:
                                
                                  Of hym Gye was not agaste.
                                
                                  Gye lepe on hys stede than:
                                
                                  The lyon before hym faste ranne.
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                                  He folowed Gye est and weste:
                                
                                  Gye hym louydde at the beste.
                                
                                  Gye to the emperowre dud ryde:
                                
                                  The lyon yede be hys syde.
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                                  Gye hym tolde euery dele,
                                
                                  How that he had spedd wele.
                                
                                  All þey wondurde on the lyon,
                                
                                  That he louyd so syr Gyone.
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                                  ¶ The emperowre and hys meyne
                                
                                  Went vnto the cyte.
                                
                                  Bothe Gye and the emperowre
                                
                                  Togedur þey went to the towre.
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                                  Gye into hys chaumbur ys gone
                                
                                  And wyth hym went hys gode lyone.
                                
                                  Into what stede þat Gye wente,
                                
                                  The lyon folowed hym, verament. [folio 186a:2] 
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                                  Before Gyes bedde he laye:
                                
                                  Ther myȝt no man brynge hym awaye.
                                
                                  Of hym was Gye full fayne,
                                
                                  For he was hys chaumburleyne.
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                                  ¶ When þey had the londe rede thorowe,
                                
                                  Castels, cytes, towne and borowe,
                                
                                  To Constantyne þey came in hye.
                                
                                  The emperowre callyd to hym syr Gye
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                                  'Gye,' he seyde, 'grathe the therforne:
                                
                                  My doghtur þou schalt wedde to morne.
                                
                                  Tyme ys comen, and y am payde:
                                
                                  Hyt schall no lenger be delayde.'

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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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