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 ...

                                
                                  That made boþe þe day and nyght,
                                
                                  Schelde me fro schame thys day,
                                
                                  As þat þou of all beste may.
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                                  Kepe me, for thy holy grace,
                                
                                  That y be not slayne in thys place.'
                                
                                  On hys fote he starte vp ryght,
                                
                                  As a nobull doghty knyght.
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                                  He toke hys bronde wyth envye
                                
                                  And smote to þe gyawnt hardelye.
                                
                                  On þe helme the stroke glode:
                                
                                  Besyde þe gyawnt downe hyt rode.
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                                  Hys hors neck he smote in two:
                                
                                  The gyawnt to þe grownde felle þo.
                                
                                  Vp he starte wythowte lettynge,
                                
                                  But he playned hym nothynge.
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                                  He smote Gye wyth hys myght
                                
                                  And he hym kepte, as a nobull knyȝt.
                                
                                  Then þey faght faste thare:
                                
                                  Ther wolde nodur odur spare. [folio 212b:2] 
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                                  They faght togedur wyth grete yre:
                                
                                  Of þer helmes sprange þe fyre.
                                
                                  Ther strokys breke styffe scheldys,
                                
                                  That þe mayles flewe to þe feldys.
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                                  ¶ Amerawnt haþ hym bethoght,
                                
                                  That in many a stowre he had foght,
                                
                                  But neuer are before that day
                                
                                  Was he so stadde in no jurnaye.
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                                  Therfore hys armes he lyfte vp ryght
                                
                                  And smote Gye wyth all hys myght:
                                
                                  Gye was bothe stronge and lyght
                                
                                  And kept hym, [MS. hyt.]  as a nobull knyght.
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                                  Then they faght so faste thare,
                                
                                  That nodur of þem wolde odur spare.
                                
                                  He smote Gye on the hedde tho,
                                
                                  That the perlys dud downe goo,

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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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