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 ...

                                
                                  I fonde a lofte bedde fletynge
                                
                                  And therin a knyght lygynge.
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                                  Y askyd hym, what he was,
                                
                                  And he me tolde in that case,
                                
                                  That he was that pylgryme,
                                
                                  That faght wyth dewke Barrardyne.
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                                  Y leyde hym in my bote wythynne
                                
                                  And ladde hym home to myn ynne
                                
                                  And haue kepyd hym þys nyght.
                                
                                  Sende aftur hym anon ryght.'
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                                  'My frende,' seyde the emperowre,
                                
                                  'Thou schalt haue grete honowre.'
                                
                                  ¶ Aftur þe pylgryme sone he sente,
                                
                                  And he came at hys comawndement.
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                                  Hastelye, wythowten fayle,
                                
                                  They were do to batayle.
                                
                                  ¶ Now togedur can they goo:
                                
                                  They dalte strokys many tho
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                                  And wyth þer swyrdys þere of stele
                                
                                  They smetyn togedur wele.
                                
                                  Hyt was wonder for to see:
                                
                                  A stronger fyght myght none bee.
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                                  They faght tyll vnderne of þe day:
                                
                                  'Thys ys grete wonder,' they can say.
                                
                                  ¶ The dewke was full of felonye
                                
                                  And smote Gye wyth envye
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                                  And repulde hys face and hys chynne
                                
                                  And of hys cheke all the skynne.
                                
                                  Downe [e in Downe illegible in consequence of an ink-blot.]  be þe schoulder þe stroke dud glyde:
                                
                                  Hyt brake many a mayle vnryde.
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                                  Of þe schelde brake a quartere,
                                
                                  Os he wolde [MS. schulde. Cf. the Caius MS. p. 233:
As he wold draw hys swerd nere.]  take hys swyrde hym nere.
                                
                                  Gye felle also skete
                                
                                  Bothe on hondys and on fete.

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

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