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 ...

                                
                                  ¶ Hyt was in somer, the wedur was hote:
                                
                                  The story so tellyth, wele y wote.
                                
                                  On þe morne aftur mydsomyr day,
                                
                                  As we in boke telle yow may,
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                                  Was the batell of the barons,
                                
                                  That frescher were, þen any lyons.
                                
                                  Amerawnt drewe hym ageyne
                                
                                  And helde hys hedde, as men seyne.
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                                  What for blode, þat he had leuyd,
                                
                                  And what for yre, þat he was greuyd,
                                
                                  Thurste he had euellye:
                                
                                  But yf he dranke, he muste dye.
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                                  'Telle thou me, syr knyght,' quod he,
                                
                                  'Of whens þou art and of what cuntre.
                                
                                  Art thou Gye of Warwyke,
                                
                                  That, men sey, ther ys none lyke?
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                                  I wolde fayne fyght wyth hym,
                                
                                  For he hath slayne mony of my kynne.
                                
                                  Hys hedde y schulde smyte of here:
                                
                                  He schulde neuyr moo men dere.
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                                  Of vs he slewe twenty thousande
                                
                                  Wyth hys dyntes [Perhaps Wyth the dyntes?]  of hys hande.
                                
                                  Yf that y had hym ones slayne
                                
                                  And syr Harrowde, þat ys hys swayne,
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                                  Two the beste then slayne had y: [folio 213a:2] 
                                
                                  Then myght y be full yolye.'
                                
                                  ¶ 'Now þe deuell,' quod Gye, 'þe honge:
                                
                                  Dud he the euyr any wronge,
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                                  That thou wolde hys hed of smyte?
                                
                                  Of synne þou art gretly to wyte.'
                                
                                  He seyde: 'nay,' wyth moche vnwynne,
                                
                                  'But he hath mysdone to my kynne.
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                                  ¶ Crysten man, vndurstande me:
                                
                                  The wedur ys hote, as þou may see.
                                
                                  For the lordys loue, þat þou leuyste ynne,

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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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