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 was þe felle and false gloton.' [Probably corrupt. See the note.] 
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                                  Gye seyde to the emperowre:
                                
                                  'Take here my wedde, for your honowre;
                                
                                  For wyth hym wyll y fyght
                                
                                  To helpe Tyrrye in hys ryght.'
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                                  ¶ Tho vp start then that syre,
                                
                                  That was full of farvente yre.
                                
                                  'Pylgryme,' he seyde, 'þou art stowte
                                
                                  And bolde þerto, wythowten dowte,
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                                  Whyll þat þou wageyst þys batayle.
                                
                                  I am seker, wythowten fayle,
                                
                                  The deuell hath bedyn the
                                
                                  And hedur he hath broght þe
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                                  For to do þys same dede,
                                
                                  And y schall quyte the thy mede.
                                
                                  The grace of god be fro me reuyd,
                                
                                  But y smyte of soone thy heuydde.' [MS. hedde.] 
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                                  ¶ 'Syr emperowre,' seyde Gyown,
                                
                                  'Herkyn to my reson.
                                
                                  Comen y am fro far cuntre:
                                
                                  Here ys no man, þat knowyth me.
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                                  Armer haue y none redye
                                
                                  Nor no syluyr none wyth to bye.
                                
                                  Ye muste for þe ordur of knyght
                                
                                  Helpe the pore in hys ryght
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                                  And in hys mystere do hym socowre:
                                
                                  Hyt ys mekyll for yowre honowre.'
                                
                                  ¶ To the emperowre be þey gane:
                                
                                  Bothe þer weddys hath he tane,
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                                  And syþen he comawndyd þem full ryȝt, [t in ryȝt all but illegible in MS.] 
                                
                                  Ȝerly that þey schulde be dyght.
                                
                                  He wyll hymselfe the batell see
                                
                                  And bad, ȝerlye þat hyt schulde bee.

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