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 ...

                                
                                  And all cryed wyth oon voyce:
                                
                                  'Ye, be the holy croys, [MS. cros.] 
                                
                                  All schall be forgeuyn here
                                
                                  Wyth the wylle of owre emperere.' [MS. Empere.] 
                                  Line 9660 
                                
                                  The emperowre answeryd also tyte:
                                
                                  'I graunte well, that he be quyte.
                                
                                  All forgeue y here Tyrrye
                                
                                  My euyll wylle and my malycolye.
                                  Line 9664 
                                
                                  Y schall delyuyr hym all hys lande
                                
                                  And all þe honowre into hys hande. [folio 223b:1] 
                                
                                  And y wyste, where he wore,
                                
                                  Y schulde delyuyr hym lesse and more.'
                                  Line 9668 
                                
                                  Gye answeryd: 'yf y may,
                                
                                  Ye schall hym see thys ylke day.'
                                
                                  'My frende,' he seyde, 'hastelye
                                
                                  Go seke me erle Tyrrye.'
                                  Line 9672 
                                
                                  ¶ He wente all the cyte abowte
                                
                                  And soght Tyrrye wythynne and owte.
                                
                                  At the laste he dud hym fynde
                                
                                  In a churche faste prayinge.
                                  Line 9676 
                                
                                  'Ryse vp,' seyde Gye, 'pur charyte,
                                
                                  The emperowre hath sende aftur þe.'
                                
                                  ¶ Vp he helde hys hedde, Tyrrye,
                                
                                  And seyde: 'lorde Iesu Cryste, þy mercy!
                                  Line 9680 
                                
                                  In whome may any man trowe
                                
                                  For to telle hys cowncell nowe?
                                
                                  Thou semed trewe for to bee
                                
                                  And now þou haste bewryed me:
                                  Line 9684 
                                
                                  To the emperowre þou haste tolde
                                
                                  And to Barrarde, that ys so bolde.
                                
                                  Now muste y dye, or y ete mete:
                                
                                  Thou haste takyn gyftes grete.
                                  Line 9688 
                                
                                  Thou haste me betrayed and do me schame.
                                
                                  Allas, þat euer thou knewe my name.
                                
                                  I wende, þou haddyst be full trewe:

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