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 ...

                                
                                  Feyre at the chesses pleyande;
                                
                                  Wyth hym xxxti of bolde knyghtys,
                                
                                  That serued hym on dayes and nyȝtys.
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                                  They were wyth hym dwellande
                                
                                  For warre, þat had be in þat lande.
                                
                                  'Syr,' seyde Tyrrye, 'god the see.
                                
                                  I prey þe, a worde þou speke wyth me
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                                  Be yowreselfe preuelye,
                                
                                  Nor man bye, but ye and y.'
                                
                                  'Syr,' seyde Ames, 'at þy wylle
                                
                                  I schall speke wyth the stylle.'
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                                  Vp rose Ames and þat anone:
                                
                                  To a wyndowe ys he gone.
                                
                                  ¶ 'Ames,' seyde Tyrrye,
                                
                                  'Be me well gretyþ yow syr Gye.
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                                  He sende me hedur at yowre wylle
                                
                                  To be here wyth yow stylle,
                                
                                  Tyll he come or sende sonde.
                                
                                  To speke wyth Oton he wyll fonde.'
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                                  'Syr,' seyde Ames, 'sekerlye,
                                
                                  Thys ys a grete curtesye,
                                
                                  That he wolde þe hedur sende.
                                
                                  What ys þy name, dere frende?'
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                                  'Syr, y hyght Tyrrye,
                                
                                  Of Gormoyse þe erles sone Awbrye.'
                                
                                  'Syr,' seyde Ames, 'so mote y the,
                                
                                  Thou art full welcome vnto me.'
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                                  He hym kyste then full swete
                                
                                  And wyth hys eyen dud he grete, [MS. wepe.] 
                                
                                  That he was so fowle ydyght:
                                
                                  To amende hyt he dud hys myght.
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                                  He made hym full wele at ese
                                
                                  And made hys men hym to plese. [folio 200a:1] 
                                
                                  He hym cladde in a wede nobull,
                                
                                  In ryche sylke and purpull:

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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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