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 ...

                                
                                  Seynt Myghell anon hyt hente:
                                
                                  As a whyte dowve, [v in dowve altered from n in MS.]  he toke hyt þere. [folio 230a:2] 
                                
                                  To god in heuen he dud hyt bere
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                                  Wyth grete yoye and mery songe:
                                
                                  'Gloria in excelsys' þey seyde amonge.
                                
                                  ¶ That louely lady, Felys la Belle, [MS. ffelysabelle.] 
                                
                                  Wyth dolefull harte dwellyþ in þat chapelle.
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                                  On hym sche swowned in þat place
                                
                                  And often sche kyssyd hym mowþe and face.
                                
                                  'Thes be þe hondys,' sche seyde thoo,
                                
                                  'That the rynges breke atwoo.'
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                                  Of hur fyngers þe blode owt ranne:
                                
                                  Sorowe and woo sche had than.
                                
                                  ¶ Grete worschyp þere god hym dudde,
                                
                                  Syr Gye, þat ys in þat blessed stude.
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                                  Of Gye a sauour spronge at þe laste
                                
                                  And hath so grete swetnes caste,
                                
                                  As and all þe spycys, þat man may see,
                                
                                  And all swete þyngys, þat here may bee,
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                                  In oon stude togedur were,
                                
                                  Swete and swote bothe in fere.
                                
                                  So swete a þyng in erthe was noon,
                                
                                  As of hys body then can goon.
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                                  They þat were in grete sykenes,
                                
                                  Heele þey had þorow þat swetnesse.
                                
                                  The swetnesse lasted, wythowten lees,
                                
                                  Tyll þat the body beryed wes. [MS. was.] 
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                                  ¶ To Warwyk þen þey wolde hym haue dyȝt,
                                
                                  But remeve hym þere no man myght;
                                
                                  For thretty knyghtys þere were broght
                                
                                  And hym remeve myght þey noght.
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                                  All þat was þorow goddys wylle,
                                
                                  And þey hym þere beleuyd stylle. [folio 230b:1] 
                                
                                  Felyce, that was feyre and free,

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