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 ...

                                
                                  He wolde breke hys neck in two
                                
                                  Wyth oon dynte wythowten moo.
                                
                                  Barrarde ys so felle a page
                                
                                  And so stowte of hys corage,
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                                  Ther ys no knyght in all þys londe
                                
                                  Nor none so wyght of hys honde,
                                
                                  And Barrarde were wroþe, þogh he were stowte,
                                
                                  When he sawe hym loke abowte,
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                                  But for feere he schulde quake
                                
                                  And flee awey for hys sake.
                                
                                  He ys wyght of hys honde
                                
                                  And sore dredde þorow þe londe.
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                                  Steward hym made þe emperowre
                                
                                  And gaue hym feys to hys honowre.
                                
                                  Men drede hym more allone,
                                
                                  Then hys barons euerychone.
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                                  Yf ther be dewke or erle in lande,
                                
                                  But þey be to hym boweande,
                                
                                  The steward wyll anone ryse
                                
                                  And dystroye hym on all wyse:
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                                  He schulde anone wyth hym be slane
                                
                                  Or ellys to pryson sone be tane.
                                
                                  Men drede hym moche þe more; [folio 218b:1] 
                                
                                  For, yf a pore man þer wore,
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                                  And Barrarde hym louyd wyth herte fre,
                                
                                  He myght be of moche poste.
                                
                                  Dewke, erle or nobull knyght,
                                
                                  Were he neuyr so ryche a wyght,
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                                  Thogh he were prynce or kynge,
                                
                                  And he [MS. þey.]  greuyd hym anythynge,
                                
                                  He wolde hym brynge vnto the grownde
                                
                                  And make hym pore in schorte stownde.
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                                  ¶ Hyt befelle, that the emperowre
                                
                                  Helde a cowncell of grete valowre
                                
                                  Of erlys, dewkys and barons

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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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