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 ...

                                
                                  To Iesu Cryste now y betake the.'
                                
                                  ¶ Now ys the page forthe goon:
                                
                                  To Warwyck he came anoon.
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                                  The cowntas he fonde in hur halle:
                                
                                  On knees to hur soone can he falle.
                                
                                  'Lysten to me, lady, now, y prey the:
                                
                                  A message ys sente to yow by me [folio 229b:2] 
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                                  Fro my lorde, that pylgryme,
                                
                                  That was in yowre halle in hys slauyn
                                
                                  And þat ye sende to plente of mete.
                                
                                  To grete yow well he wyll not forgete.
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                                  Now he ys dwellyng in þe foreste:
                                
                                  By ȝerbes and rootys he leuyth mest. [MS. moest.] 
                                
                                  Lyfe he ledyth, as man well wyse:
                                
                                  Of goddys grace fulfyllyd he ys.
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                                  Thys same rynge to yow he sente,
                                
                                  That y to yow take now in presente.'
                                
                                  ¶ The rynge to hur sche can brayde:
                                
                                  'Gode felowe,' to hym sche sayde—
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                                  'Allas, lefe lorde, now mercy!
                                
                                  Thys was my lordys rynge, syr Gye.'
                                
                                  In swownyng she fell and hur hert agroos,
                                
                                  And, when þat sche of swownyng aroos:
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                                  'Thys tokyn y knowe, þat to me ys broȝt.
                                
                                  For my loue, ne heyle hyt noght
                                
                                  And tresowre þou schalt haue, y telle þe,
                                
                                  The soþe yf þou wylt sey to me.'
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                                  'In þe foreste,' he seyde wyth wordys mylde,
                                
                                  'Wyth þe bestys wode and wylde
                                
                                  There he lyueth, [MS. lyeth.]  be god aboue;
                                
                                  And he beseketh yow for loue,
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                                  That he be beryed þorow yowre redde;
                                
                                  For there he lyeth almost dedde;
                                
                                  And þat ye bewrye hym to no wyght:
                                
                                  So he me badde, syr Gye, þe knyght.

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

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