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 ...

                                
                                  A stalworth knyght, wythowten fabull,
                                
                                  That he were armyd swythe anon
                                
                                  And all hys men euerychone.
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                                  And he so dud well hastelye
                                
                                  Swythe well and ryghtlye.
                                
                                  Harrowde hys gode hors bestryte [MS. hors dud bestryte. See the note.] 
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                                  Wyth a spere in hys hande, þat sharply wolde byte,
                                
                                  And wendyd owte of that cyte
                                
                                  And ouyrgoyth all that cuntre,
                                
                                  And comen in a lytull stownde,
                                
                                  There þey haue þe castell fownde,
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                                  Well straunge assayled and besett:
                                
                                  Many oon þere was well euelly grett.
                                
                                  Helmes [MS. He liues.]  men sye boþe bryȝt and schene,
                                
                                  And stedys nye togedur ȝedyn.
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                                  Yn yron was mony a knyght
                                
                                  On hors back redy for to fyght.
                                
                                  Eydur odur can assaylye
                                
                                  And eydur smote odur wyth envye
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                                  Harrowde a sarsyn smote,
                                
                                  That dedde he felle anon fote hote:
                                
                                  A nodur and the thrydde also
                                
                                  All dedde he fellyd to grounde tho.
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                                  Dedde felle all, þat hys handys raght:
                                
                                  Well to smyte ne spared he noght.
                                
                                  Dede þey lay in the feldys wyde.
                                
                                  Harrowde was preysed on euery syde:
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                                  All they sayde, hyt [hyt altered from hys in MS.]  was a fende,
                                
                                  That þe deuell had thedur sende.
                                
                                  ¶ The kyngys own stewarde,
                                
                                  A stalworthe knyght and no cowarde
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                                  (Ther was neuer an hardyar sarsyn
                                
                                  Nor more seruyd Mahownde and Apolyn), [folio 232b:1]

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

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