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 ...

                                
                                  ¶ When Tyrrye sye Gye, hys harte wolde breke:
                                
                                  Not a worde myght he speke.
                                
                                  To grownde soone felle he than:
                                
                                  More sorowe, þen he had, had neuer no man.
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                                  'Gye,' he seyde, 'my dere felowe,
                                
                                  Wherefore myght y the not knowe?
                                
                                  Allas, that euyr y bode thys day!
                                
                                  Myn eyen were blynde, so may y say.
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                                  Y myght haue sene and knowen full ryght,
                                
                                  That ye were Gye, þat nobull knyght,
                                
                                  Be yowre strenkyth and be yowre myght
                                
                                  And be yowre strokys, that were so wyght.
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                                  Who schulde haue be on lyue so stronge,
                                
                                  That durste agenste Barrard stonde so longe,
                                
                                  But yf hyt were yow, syr Gye?
                                
                                  Therfore of me haue mercye.
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                                  Y aske yow mercye, Gye, nowe,
                                
                                  That y dud mysknowe yow.'
                                
                                  ¶ Downe he felle to Gyes fete
                                
                                  And full sore dud he grete.
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                                  Hys legges were bare euery dele,
                                
                                  That were some tyme cloþed [MS. cloþe. But cf. the Caius MS. p. 242, That som tyme were clothed well.]  well.
                                
                                  Therfore he wepyd and wrange hys hande:
                                
                                  In thys worlde was none lyueande,
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                                  That myght them boþe haue see, [folio 224b:2] 
                                
                                  But þey wolde haue had pyte.
                                
                                  ¶ Gye had grete moornynge:
                                
                                  He myght not a worde forþe brynge.
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                                  Gye toke vp erle Tyrrye
                                
                                  And kyste hym full tendurlye.
                                
                                  But þey had so grete moornynge,
                                
                                  They felle bothe in swownynge.
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                                  Then seyde Gye: 'my felowe dere,
                                
                                  Now wyll y wende: þou schalt byde here.

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