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 ...

                                
                                  Y bydde the, yf thy wylle bee,
                                
                                  That on the way thou lede me.
                                  Line 9800 
                                
                                  Soche thynge may þou here say,
                                
                                  That þou schalt haue wonder to day.
                                
                                  Looke, þat no man come wyth the.'
                                
                                  'Nay,' seyde Tyrrye, 'so mote y the.'
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                                  Tyrrye lepe on a mewle awmblande
                                
                                  And thorow the cyte wente prekande:
                                
                                  Ther myght no man wyth hym goo,
                                
                                  But hyt were themselfe twoo.
                                  Line 9808 
                                
                                  ¶ When þey were paste but a myle,
                                
                                  They set them downe þere a whyle.
                                
                                  Tho seyde Gye to Tyrrye: 'herkyn me now.
                                
                                  Ye knowe not me, as y trowe.
                                  Line 9812 
                                
                                  Yf ye vndurstode wele,
                                
                                  Ye oght to knowe me some dele.
                                
                                  May ye not Gye knowe,
                                
                                  That was some tyme yowre felowe,
                                  Line 9816 
                                
                                  That slewe for yow þe dewke Oton
                                
                                  And delyuyrd yow of pryson? [folio 224b:2] 
                                
                                  Furste y fonde yow woundyd sare
                                
                                  Yn the foreste, as y can fare,
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                                  And slewe for þe theuys fyftene
                                
                                  And wanne þy lemman bryght and schene
                                
                                  And the fro fowre knyghtys wanne
                                
                                  And slewe them euerychane
                                  Line 9824 
                                
                                  And on [MS. ouer. But cf. the Caius MS. p. 241, And on my horse led the a stounde.]  my hors led þe a stownde
                                
                                  And helyd the of thy wounde
                                
                                  And sythen soyorned wyth þy fader dere
                                
                                  And halpe the on all manere
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                                  And now slewe Barrarde wyth my honde,
                                
                                  That chasyd the owt of thy londe.
                                
                                  Thys ys Gye, that thou seyst here:
                                
                                  Thou oghtyste to knowe me on all manere.'

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