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 ...

                                
                                  Schall be the weddynge, yf y may:
                                
                                  At Warwyk, myn owne cyte,
                                
                                  There schall that ryche brydale bee.
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                                  All the lordys of thys cuntre,
                                
                                  At that brydale schall they be.'
                                
                                  'Syr,' quod Gye, 'y wyll fulfylle
                                
                                  Yowre ordynaunce at yowre wylle.'
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                                  ¶ Syr Gye tolde Harrowde euery dele,
                                
                                  How the erle seyde, full wele.
                                
                                  'Harrowde, now may y synge,
                                
                                  That y haue wonne that swetynge,
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                                  That y trauelde fore day and nyght,
                                
                                  And euer hur louyd wyth all my myght.'
                                
                                  ¶ Now ys the weddynge ordeyned soone:
                                
                                  There the brydale schulde be done,
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                                  There came grete meyne,
                                
                                  Lordys of many a cuntre,
                                
                                  Dewkys, erlys and baronage,
                                
                                  Knyghtys, squyers of grete lynage.
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                                  The mayde was rychelye dyght
                                
                                  And weddyd to Gye, þat nobull knyght.
                                
                                  A ryche brydale was ordeyned thare:
                                
                                  Hyt stode fowrtene nyghtys and mare. [folio 206b:2] 
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                                  There were mynstrels on all manere:
                                
                                  Moche yoye there men myght here.
                                
                                  Ther was none so lytull a grome,
                                
                                  But þey had gyftys of syr Gyowne.
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                                  He gaue them robes many oon:
                                
                                  Golde nor syluyr he wantyd none.
                                
                                  ¶ They partyd on the fyftenyth day:
                                
                                  Euery man wente hys owne waye.
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                                  Gye had of yoye hys fylle,
                                
                                  When he had of Felyce hys wylle.
                                
                                  Fyfty dayes and no mare
                                
                                  Lasted hur [þer?]  yoye wythowten care.

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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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