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 ...

                                
                                  ¶ The emperowre full curteslye
                                
                                  Into a chaumbur ladde Tyrrye
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                                  And cloþed hym in a ryche mantell
                                
                                  Lynydde wyth gode sendell
                                
                                  And gaue hym stedys two or thre,
                                
                                  The beste in all that cuntre.
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                                  He went to Gormoyse hastelye
                                
                                  And wyth hym he ladde godde syr Gye.
                                
                                  ¶ To that cyte came Tyrrye:
                                
                                  He was resseyuyd worschypfully.
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                                  The pylgryme wyth hym he broght:
                                
                                  That hyt was Gye, wyste he noght.
                                
                                  Hys cowntes soght he thorow þe londe
                                
                                  And at the laste he hur fonde,
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                                  There sche was hydde for grete dowte
                                
                                  Of Barrard, þe steward, þat was so stowte.
                                
                                  ¶ Now ys Tyrrye bolde and wyght [folio 224b:1] 
                                
                                  And in all þat londe moost of myght.
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                                  He wolde not forgete in no manere
                                
                                  The tresure in the hye rochere,
                                
                                  That þey fonde betwene them twoo
                                
                                  Be the way, as þey dud goo.
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                                  Vnto Gormoyse he dud hyt brynge:
                                
                                  There was mony a ryche thynge.
                                
                                  He gaue hyt vnto syr Gye,
                                
                                  But he wolde none, verelye.
                                  Line 9788 
                                
                                  Of golde nor syluer roght he noght:
                                
                                  To serue god was all hys thoght.
                                
                                  Tho seyde Gye: 'geue some to pore menys hande
                                
                                  And wyth the remlawnt store thy lande.'
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                                  ¶ On a day Gye hym bethoght:
                                
                                  Lenger wolde he dwelle noght.
                                
                                  He toke hys leue at erle Tyrrye
                                
                                  And spake to hym full drerelye:
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                                  'Syr, wyth thy leue now wyll y fare.
                                
                                  Wyth þe may y dwelle no mare.

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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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