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 ...

                                
                                  Now to hym wyll y fare
                                
                                  And take my dethe ryght thare.'
                                
                                  ¶ Wyth that he swownyd before Gye,
                                
                                  And therfore he was sorye.
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                                  Gye had sorow and moche care,
                                
                                  For he sawe the erle so fare.
                                
                                  'Leue pylgryme,' seyde Gye,
                                
                                  'That for thy sonnes art sorye
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                                  And Gye and Harrowde boþe haste soght
                                
                                  In far londys and fonde þem noght,
                                
                                  Yf thou haue dole, hyt ys no ferlye,
                                
                                  When þou mayste þem nowhere aspye:
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                                  Thorow þem þou wenyst delyuerd to be
                                
                                  Owte of pryson and thy sonnes fre.
                                
                                  Some tyme y was in my lande
                                
                                  Holdyn doghty of my hande.
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                                  For the loue of god allmyght,
                                
                                  That he me gaue soche myght,
                                
                                  And for syr Gye and Harrowdes sake [folio 210b:2] 
                                
                                  That batell for þy loue wyll y take,
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                                  And þorow þe grace of heuyn kynge
                                
                                  The and þy sonnes owt of prison brynge.'
                                
                                  ¶ When erle Joonas sawe Gye,
                                
                                  That he was bolde and hardye
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                                  To do that batell, yf he myght,
                                
                                  And wyth þe gyawnte for to fyght,
                                
                                  He avysed hym full wele
                                
                                  Fro þe hedde downewarde euery dele.
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                                  Hys body, he þoght, was feyre and longe
                                
                                  And wele ymade to be stronge:
                                
                                  Hys bones were bare of flesche.
                                
                                  He semyd all of wyldurnesse:
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                                  Hys berde was longe, [Perhaps we ought to add and after longe.]  fowle farande.
                                
                                  He lokyd vp steype starande.
                                
                                  'Syr,' he seyde, 'for thy reson

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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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