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 ...

                                
                                  Thorow me he wened to wynne
                                
                                  Gye of Warwyke wyth some gynne.
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                                  Were he vengyd vpon Gyown
                                
                                  Wyth some maner of treson,
                                
                                  Soone þen aftur schulde y be dedde:
                                
                                  For me schulde go no golde redde.
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                                  Yn that pryson was y longe
                                
                                  And suffurde there peynes stronge.
                                
                                  I sawe neuer there no lyght
                                
                                  No more, þen hyt had be nyght.
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                                  Y ete neuyr there my fylle
                                
                                  Nor spake neuer þere wyth men [MS. me. Cf. the Caius MS. p. 209:
Spake i neuer ther wyth man my fyll.]  at wylle.
                                
                                  ¶ My frendes came at the laste
                                
                                  And preyed þe emperowre for me faste
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                                  And gaue hym gyftes grete ynowe
                                
                                  And to Barrard they dud also,
                                
                                  That y myȝt wende fro pryson
                                
                                  Thorowe thys condycyon,
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                                  That y schulde wende to seke Gyown
                                
                                  To euery lande and euery towne:
                                
                                  I schulde not reste day nor nyght,
                                
                                  Tyll y had fonde þat gentyll knyght,
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                                  And brynge hym to the emperowre
                                
                                  To defende hym, as a traytowre,
                                
                                  Of that grete owtrage
                                
                                  Before all hys baronage
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                                  And to defende me that day
                                
                                  Of þynge, þat men wolde to me say.
                                
                                  ¶ Then y wente wyth grete care
                                
                                  And in mony a londe haue y fare.
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                                  I haue soght Gye in fere [Corrupt. See the note.]  [folio 219a:1] 
                                
                                  Thorow Inglonde far and nere.
                                
                                  When y came þere and fonde hym noght,

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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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