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 ...

                                
                                  To ȝelde to yow rawnsome
                                
                                  Odur do þem [MS. hym.]  gode costage
                                
                                  To amende þer [MS. hys.]  owtrage.
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                                  Y schall haue [u in haue partly gone (worm-hole).]  Harrowde and Gye
                                
                                  Tyll þey be swagyd a gode partye
                                
                                  And chastysed thorow þer owtrage.
                                
                                  Then schall ye þorow your baronage
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                                  Wyth them sone acordyd bee
                                
                                  To wynne þer loue to þe and me.'
                                
                                  ¶ He thoght a nodur trecherye:
                                
                                  Yf he myȝt gete þem to hys baylye,
                                  Line 5272 
                                
                                  He wolde not for all Lumbardye,
                                
                                  But þey were dedde full ha telye.
                                
                                  He besoght dewke Loyere
                                
                                  Wyth soche wordys and preyere,
                                  Line 5276 
                                
                                  That he grauntyd for hys sake
                                
                                  A messengere for to make.
                                
                                  They toke þe byschopp of þat lande
                                
                                  And tolde hym all that tythande,
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                                  How þey wolde make acordynge,
                                
                                  Wythowte any lesynge.
                                
                                  Forthe he wente that ylke day
                                
                                  Wyth grete fare and nobelaye.
                                  Line 5284 
                                
                                  Or hyt were dayes thre, [folio 195a:1] 
                                
                                  Comyn he was to that cyte.
                                
                                  There he fonde the erle Awbrye
                                
                                  And he hym kyssed curteslye.
                                  Line 5288 
                                
                                  'He grett yow wele, þe dewke Loyere,
                                
                                  And byddyth yow on feyre manere
                                
                                  Come to hys cyte, verament:
                                
                                  And, yf ye wyll to hym assent,
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                                  He wyll geue thy sone Tyrrye
                                
                                  Hys doghtur to wyfe, sekurlye,
                                
                                  And in that same feyre cyte

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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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