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 ...

                                
                                  For no preyar, that he can make. [folio 225b:1] 
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                                  The gyawnt ys so stronge of myght,
                                
                                  That þer dar none wyth hym fyght;
                                
                                  Wherefore we deme, wythowten fayle,
                                
                                  Thys londe wyll be loste wythowte batayle.'
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                                  ¶ 'Where ys,' quod Gye, 'gode Harrawte,
                                
                                  That in nede made neuer defawte?'
                                
                                  They answeryd hym and that anon:
                                
                                  'He ys owte of thys londe gone
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                                  To seke Reynbowrne, Gyes sone,
                                
                                  That marchandys haue awey nome.'
                                
                                  Gye wepyd then for grete pyte
                                
                                  And sykyd sore, sekerlye,
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                                  And seyde: 'what doyþ þe erles doghtur, þe cowntas?'
                                
                                  They answeryd: 'neuer a bettur woman was.
                                
                                  Woman borne neuyr none dud
                                
                                  So moche godenes in a stedde.
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                                  Pore men sche fedyþ and makyþ abbeyse
                                
                                  And makyth brygges and cawsayse
                                
                                  And preyeth to god to lende hur þat day
                                
                                  To see hur lorde Gye verraye,
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                                  Quyck or dedde may þey hym fynde:
                                
                                  He ys euyr in hur mynde.'
                                
                                  ¶ Toward Wynchestur wente syr Gye:
                                
                                  No man knewe hym, sekerlye.
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                                  Hyt was at þe byrþe of seynt Iohan:
                                
                                  At Wynchestur was kynge Adelston
                                
                                  And also all hys baronye,
                                
                                  But none, þat he myght on affye.
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                                  He calde then soone hys cowncell vnto:
                                
                                  'What ys beste,' he seyde, 'to doo?
                                
                                  Lordys, y prey yow, vndurstonde,
                                
                                  And also erles and barons of my londe:
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                                  Agenste the Danes we muste vs were,
                                
                                  That they may not vs dere.
                                
                                  Cowncell of yow y wolde craue,

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

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