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 ...

                                
                                  All þat yere Gye can gone
                                
                                  Þorow kyngys landys many oon
                                
                                  All he wente thorow and thorow
                                
                                  Ryght vnto Jerusalem, þe borowe.
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                                  Longe wolde he not dwelle thare.
                                
                                  Furthermore wolde he fare
                                
                                  Into hethen cuntre:
                                
                                  To Anteoge, that cyte,
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                                  Thedurwarde thoght hee.
                                
                                  Hyt was a grete jurne.
                                
                                  Vndur an hawthorne þere [tree? See the note.]  he fonde [folio 208b:2] 
                                
                                  A pore pylgryme there stonde.
                                  Line 7404 
                                
                                  Hyt semyd wele a sarsyne,
                                
                                  That had moche pyne.
                                
                                  He semyd [MS. semyth. Caius MS. semed.]  comen of hye lynage.
                                
                                  He had grete eyen and stronge vysage,
                                  Line 7408 
                                
                                  Hys hed whyte, hys berde [MS. herre. Caius MS. berd.]  longe.
                                
                                  He semyd a bolde man and a stronge.
                                
                                  He made grete mornynge:
                                
                                  Gye had pyte of that tythynge.
                                  Line 7412 
                                
                                  He drewe hys berde and hys hare:
                                
                                  He swownyd anon þere for care
                                
                                  And seyde: 'allas,' þat he was borne;
                                
                                  'Harde wordys ys me beforne.'
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                                  ¶ Then seyde Gye: 'what art thou,
                                
                                  That makyst all þys dole now?
                                
                                  I see well be thy chere,
                                
                                  That þou art noyed on some manere:
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                                  Therfore, syr, telle thou me,
                                
                                  In the name of the trynyte.'
                                
                                  'Syr,' seyde the pylgryme,
                                
                                  'Thou haste me congurde at þys tyme:
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                                  Sone y schall telle the, why
                                
                                  That y am so sorye.

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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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