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 ...

                                
                                  And ye schall dye not longe to:
                                
                                  He sende me to yow to sey so.
                                
                                  Of myrthys ye schull haue þe meest
                                
                                  In the yoye, þat euyr schall laste.' [folio 230a:1] 
                                  Line 10640 
                                
                                  ¶ Furste for sorow sche was nye madde
                                
                                  And syþen sche became full gladde,
                                
                                  That sche schulde hur lorde see,
                                
                                  And a dolefuller loker may none be:
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                                  That sche schulde see hym dedd,
                                
                                  Hur harte was heuyer, þen þe ledde.
                                
                                  Vpon a palfrey sche lepte anoon
                                
                                  And hastyly forthe can sche goon.
                                  Line 10648 
                                
                                  Forþe she rode wyth knyȝt, squyere and page,
                                
                                  Tyll sche came to that ermytage.
                                
                                  There þat lady dud feyre alyght,
                                
                                  And so dud many a gentyll knyght,
                                  Line 10652 
                                
                                  Erlys, barons, and abbottys tho,
                                
                                  Archebyschopes and byschoppes also.
                                
                                  ¶ The cowntas lyȝt downe in grete hye
                                
                                  And, hur lordys body when sche sye,
                                  Line 10656 
                                
                                  Wondurly hygh [hyght written originally, but the last letter blotted out.]  sche caste vp a crye.
                                
                                  Wyth þat hys eyen openyd syr Gye:
                                
                                  Vp he loked anon ryȝt [The abbreviation for and blotted out after ryȝt.] 
                                
                                  And clepyd Felyce, as he myght,
                                  Line 10660 
                                
                                  And helde vp boþe hys handys
                                
                                  Before þat lady, as sche standys,
                                
                                  In tokenyng hur mercy for to crye
                                
                                  Of þe sorowe, sche dud for him drye.
                                  Line 10664 
                                
                                  Hedde to hedde þere lay they thoo:
                                
                                  Swetely eyther kyssed other also.
                                
                                  But oon worde Gye þere ne speke,
                                
                                  And þe [þen originally, but the n blotted out in MS.]  goost þen fro hym breke.
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                                  ¶ When þat hys sowle fro hym wente,

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