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 ...

                                
                                  And wyth hym hys sone Fabore.
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                                  He was yonge and also wyght
                                
                                  And therto newe made knyght.
                                
                                  ¶ At the thrydde day of the feste,
                                
                                  That was ryche and honeste,
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                                  The sowdon sone rose vp full ryght
                                
                                  (Syr Sowdan [The spelling of the MS. Sowdan, though evidently wrong for Sadoyne, yet has been left unaltered.]  of Perce he hyght):
                                
                                  'Faber,' quod Sowdan, 'y bydde the
                                
                                  To playe at þe chesses wyth me.'
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                                  'Syr,' quod he, 'wyth myn entente
                                
                                  I schall do yowre comawndement.'
                                
                                  To Faber chaumber þere þey wente
                                
                                  And aftur the chesses soon þey sente.
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                                  They sate downe frendys in all wyse,
                                
                                  But þey were wroþe, or þey dud ryse.
                                
                                  Syr Faber at þe chesses a worde seyde: [Corrupt without doubt. The Caius MS., p. 158, has At a cheke, that Fabour seyde.] 
                                
                                  Sowdan [MS. The Sowdan.]  was wroþe and owte brayde
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                                  And clepyd hym horeson thore
                                
                                  And wyth a roke he smote hym sore:
                                
                                  On the hedde he brake the crowne,
                                
                                  That þe blode faste ranne downe.
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                                  'Syr, thou doyst me dyshonowre,'
                                
                                  To Sowdan [MS. To the Sowdan.]  seyde Fabowre,
                                
                                  'When thou haste brokyn my heuedde. [MS. hedde.]  [folio 209b:1] 
                                
                                  The grace of god be fro me reuedde,
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                                  Yf thou were not my lordys sone,
                                
                                  Thou schuldyst abye, þat þou haste done.'
                                
                                  Then seyde Sowdan: 'what seyste thou?
                                
                                  Haste thou me manest nowe?
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                                  In euyll tyme þou hyt thoght:
                                
                                  Thyn own deþe þou haste wroght.'
                                
                                  And wyth hys fyste he wolde hym smyte,

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