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 ...

                                
                                  When he sye þem [þem is very probably miswritten for hym or for hys sone.]  þere lye dedde.
                                
                                  What he myȝt do, he cowde no redde.
                                
                                  'Allas,' he seyde, 'and wele away!
                                
                                  My sone ys dedde thys ylke day
                                  Line 6628 
                                
                                  Now schall y euyr mare
                                
                                  Leue in sorowe and in care.'
                                
                                  He swownyd soone vpon the beere.
                                
                                  Ther was no man in þat place þere,
                                  Line 6632 
                                
                                  But of hym they had pyte.
                                
                                  He comawndyd nys [pyte blotted out after hys in MS.]  meyne,
                                
                                  That none were so hardye
                                
                                  To assayle hym before hys yee.
                                  Line 6636 
                                
                                  He dud delyuer to hym hys stede [folio 203b:2] 
                                
                                  And also all hys odur wede.
                                
                                  When he were owt of the towre,
                                
                                  He schulde be slayne wyth dyshonowre.
                                  Line 6640 
                                
                                  ¶ Gye toke hys gode stede
                                
                                  And on hym lepe, as he had nede.
                                
                                  Hys swyrde he forȝate noght,
                                
                                  And hys spere was to hym broght.
                                  Line 6644 
                                
                                  Owte of the castell ys he gane:
                                
                                  The wey he hath soone tane.
                                
                                  Be þat the erle was armed wele
                                
                                  Bothe in yron and in stele.
                                  Line 6648 
                                
                                  Faste he sewyd there syr Gye
                                
                                  Wyth hys grete companye.
                                
                                  Gye turned the hed of hys stede
                                
                                  And farde, as þat he wolde wede.
                                  Line 6652 
                                
                                  He mett a knyght and smote hym sore,
                                
                                  That he rose neuyr more.
                                
                                  A nother there soone he smote.
                                
                                  The erle came then full hote
                                  Line 6656 
                                
                                  (To slee Gye he dud fonde)
                                
                                  Wyth a spere in hys honde.

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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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