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 ...

                                
                                  Fellyd ys downe to the grownde
                                  Line 11044 
                                
                                  And many of hys men hath he lore:
                                
                                  Well swyþe wo he ys therfore.
                                
                                  Hys knyghtys all tohewen bee
                                
                                  And þorow þe felde faste can flee,
                                  Line 11048 
                                
                                  But they turned soone ageyne
                                
                                  And assayled þe kynge vpon a grene,
                                
                                  And he hym defendyd, as a man: [folio 233a:2] 
                                
                                  All, þat he smote, felle downe þan.
                                  Line 11052 
                                
                                  ¶ Harrowde that can aspye
                                
                                  And to hym soone drewe nye.
                                
                                  Betwene hym and hys men he wendyþ
                                
                                  And harde strokys to hym he sendyþ.
                                  Line 11056 
                                
                                  But þe steward soone come can
                                
                                  For to helpe hys lorde than,
                                
                                  And þorow strenkyþ and þorow myȝt
                                
                                  Harrowde wanne þe steward ryght,
                                  Line 11060 
                                
                                  And aftur þat he gate an hors
                                
                                  And to þe admyrall swyþe goys
                                
                                  And horsyd hym full myghtylye
                                
                                  In mavgre of þose, þat stode hym by.
                                  Line 11064 
                                
                                  Of many he made þe hedde of to fleyn
                                
                                  Of þem, þat stode hym agayne.
                                
                                  The kynge he assayled and hys men
                                
                                  And ouyrþrewe þem in þe fenne.
                                  Line 11068 
                                
                                  The kynge was well wroþe wythall,
                                
                                  When he sye hys men to grounde falle.
                                
                                  Thorow them that ylke day
                                
                                  He demyd to fayle of hys pray.
                                  Line 11072 
                                
                                  He þoght, þe warse went on hys syde.
                                
                                  There he wolde no lenger abyde:
                                
                                  Homewarde fleyng faste he goyth [geth: seth?] 
                                
                                  And wenyth, that no man hyt ne seyth. [geth: seth?] 
                                  Line 11076 
                                
                                  ¶ And, when Harrowde þat aspyed,
                                
                                  That the kynge ageynwarde flyede,

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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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