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 ...

                                
                                  Then for Gye he wepyd sore.
                                
                                  To churche he turned wythowten more.
                                  Line 9420 
                                
                                  Ofte he preyed god that day
                                
                                  To helpe hym, as he well may.
                                
                                  ¶ The batell lasted swythe longe
                                
                                  Fro morowe vnto euynsonge.
                                  Line 9424 
                                
                                  They wolde not let of ther fyght,
                                
                                  Tyll hyt came to the nyght.
                                
                                  Whan they lackyd lyght [MS. syght. Cf. the Caius MS. p. 225: For they lakkyd the lyght of the daye.]  of day,
                                
                                  They wyste not, what þey myȝt say.
                                  Line 9428 
                                
                                  Messengerys were sente:
                                
                                  To the emperowre they wente.
                                
                                  They tolde hym, þat hyt was nyght,
                                
                                  They myght see no more to fyght.
                                  Line 9432 
                                
                                  ¶ The emperowre clepyd in þat stowre
                                
                                  Fowre barons of grete honowre.
                                
                                  'Lordyngys,' he seyde, 'take Barrarde nowe
                                
                                  And kepe hym, as ye mowe [folio 222a:1] 
                                  Line 9436 
                                
                                  As in yow y affye,
                                
                                  Ȝylde hym to me ȝerly,
                                
                                  And y schall kepe my pylgryme wele,
                                
                                  Tyll hyt be day, so haue y hele.
                                  Line 9440 
                                
                                  Then schall they togedur goo:
                                
                                  Men schall see of them twoo,
                                
                                  Whether schall haue the vyctorye
                                
                                  Thorow helpe of seynt Marye.'
                                  Line 9444 
                                
                                  ¶ They toke Barrarde, þe nobull knyght,
                                
                                  And kept hym, as they myght,
                                
                                  And the emperowre toke syr Gye
                                
                                  And kepyd hym tendurlye.
                                  Line 9448 
                                
                                  The dewke Barrarde, þe fals gloton,
                                
                                  Bethoght hym of a treson.
                                
                                  Fowre cosyns, that he hadde,
                                
                                  Preuely he them badde,

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