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 ...

                                
                                  Now þey drad þem no mare,
                                
                                  For they were broght owt of care.
                                
                                  ¶ The dewke Oton ys comen hame:
                                
                                  Of hys dede he had grete schame.
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                                  Lechys he had there gode:
                                
                                  They helyd hym sone, be my hode.
                                
                                  When hys woundys were whayle,
                                
                                  He wente to the dewke, sawns fayle,
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                                  And tolde hym of hys wykkyd care,
                                
                                  How he had be in sorowe sare.
                                
                                  ¶ To dewke Loyer seyde Oton:
                                
                                  'Herkyn to my reson.
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                                  But ye haue þe better cownsayle, [MS. cownsell.] 
                                
                                  Ye lose yowre londe, wythowte fayle,
                                
                                  Thorowe þe men Harrowde and Gye
                                
                                  And wyth them þe erle Tyrrye. [folio 194b:1] 
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                                  All yowre knyghtys þey haue tane
                                
                                  And yowre frendys many slane.
                                
                                  The stronge cyte may no man wynne
                                
                                  Nodur wyth force nor wyth gynne.
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                                  They haue of many a londe socowre:
                                
                                  Yf we fyght, we gete the worre.
                                
                                  Yf ye wyll my cowncell trowe,
                                
                                  Wyth some wyle we wyll venge yow.
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                                  Men schulde preue in all wyse
                                
                                  To venge them on þer enmyse.
                                
                                  ¶ Sende ye wyth loue vnto Tyrrye
                                
                                  And to hys fadur, erle Awbrye,
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                                  And sey, þou wylt ȝeue þy doghtur dere
                                
                                  To syr Tyrrye wyth full gode chere,
                                
                                  And bydde hym come to thys cyte
                                
                                  (And sey, ye wyll acordyd bee
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                                  All seker and not dredande
                                
                                  Wyth all the knyghtys of þe lande:
                                
                                  All wyth loue and charyte

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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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