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 ...

                                
                                  In proverbe hyt ys seyde full ȝare:
                                
                                  Mony for þe lesse forgoyþ þe mare.
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                                  Yf y had Gye so moche betaght,
                                
                                  Of myn enmyes y had not roght.'
                                
                                  ¶ Vp rose then the dewke of Kente
                                
                                  And to the kynge seyde hys entente:
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                                  'Syr kynge, þou muste sende þy sonde
                                
                                  Far into vncowthe londe [folio 226a:1] 
                                
                                  To euery towne þorow and thorowe
                                
                                  Bothe in cyte and in borowe
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                                  All, that may armes bere,
                                
                                  Swyrde, axe, schelde or spere,
                                
                                  To come to þe at a day certeyne,
                                
                                  And þat þey stande not þerageyne;
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                                  For of the þey schall haue
                                
                                  More wageys, þen þey wyll craue.
                                
                                  Wyth þe kynge þen we schall fyght
                                
                                  And hym ouercome wyth goddys myght.
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                                  I haue now my cowncell sayde:
                                
                                  Yf hyt be wele, y am well payde.'
                                
                                  Wyth that they parted euerychone:
                                
                                  Odur cowncell was ther none.
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                                  ¶ The kynge at nyght to bedde was broȝt
                                
                                  In cloþys of golde rychely wroght.
                                
                                  All that nyght he lay and wakyde
                                
                                  And to Iesu hys preyer maked,
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                                  That he wolde sende hym soche a man,
                                
                                  That of þe batayle he myght tryste on;
                                
                                  And god forgate hym nothynge:
                                
                                  As he was in slepeynge,
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                                  An aungell he sende to hym full euyn
                                
                                  Hym to cowmfort wyth mery steuyn,
                                
                                  And seyde: 'kynge, slepyste thou?
                                
                                  The sendyth worde the kynge Iesu:
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                                  To morne, when þat hyt ys day,
                                
                                  Take thou the redy way

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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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