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 ...

                                
                                  Tyll hyt befelle, that syr Gye,
                                
                                  That was my felowe trewlye,
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                                  Slewe the dewke of Payuye:
                                
                                  He had done hym velenye.
                                
                                  Amonge hys knyghtys euerychone
                                
                                  Gye hym slewe and passed anon
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                                  And broght my lemman wyth hym [Perhaps we ought to read wyth hym my lemman. The Caius MS. p. 205, has, He brought from hym his leman dere.]  dere,
                                
                                  That y louyd on all manere.
                                
                                  ¶ That dewke had a cosyne,
                                
                                  That ys preuyd a felle hyne:
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                                  Barrarde ys hys ryght name.
                                
                                  Lorde god geue hym moche schame.
                                
                                  He was then but a squyere
                                
                                  And serued the emperere.
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                                  The emperowre louyd hym wele
                                
                                  And gaue hym Payuye euery dele.
                                
                                  Thys ylke Barrarde tho beganne
                                
                                  For to be a prowde man, [folio 218a:2] 
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                                  So prowde and so felle,
                                
                                  That no man myght be hym dwelle.
                                
                                  In þe worlde ys none hys pere,
                                
                                  None so stalworthe nor none so fere.
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                                  Men drede hym more allone,
                                
                                  Then an hundurd knyghtys echone.
                                
                                  Yf any man were armed wele
                                
                                  Odur in yron or in stele,
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                                  And he hyt hym in the felde,
                                
                                  But he kepte hym wyth hys schelde,
                                
                                  Wyth þe myght of hys swyrde dynte
                                
                                  The hed schulde of, or hyt stynte.
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                                  Thou harde neuer speke of soche a knyght:
                                
                                  In all þys worlde þer ys none so wyght
                                
                                  Nor none so stronge in thys lande,
                                
                                  But, and he hyt hym wyth hys hande,

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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,; 1875-6.

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