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 ...

                                
                                  Harrowde hym folowed faste,
                                
                                  Whyll þat þe stede wolde laste.
                                  Line 11080 
                                
                                  He had hym take or ellys ynome
                                
                                  Or in batell haue be [haue be I suppose must be omitted.]  ouercome,
                                
                                  But þat þer come a yonglynge:
                                
                                  Of all þe todur he myght be kynge.
                                  Line 11084 
                                
                                  When [MS. Then.]  he sawe þe kynge fleande
                                
                                  And Harrowde [Harrowde written over the kynge struck out.]  aftur hym dryuande,
                                
                                  Then he [he omitted in MS.]  þe kynge soone to socowre ȝode
                                
                                  And seyde to Harrowde, as he rode:
                                  Line 11088 
                                
                                  'Thou olde and forhoryd man, [Before this a whole line seems to be erased in MS.]  [folio 233b:1] 
                                
                                  Well lytull wytt ys the an,
                                
                                  That þou folowest owre kynge,
                                
                                  That y loue ouyr all thynge.
                                  Line 11092 
                                
                                  Thou schalt abye, or thou goo,
                                
                                  For þou haste wroȝt vs moche woo.
                                
                                  That gode stede, þat ys thyne,
                                
                                  Y hope to god, he schall be myne.'
                                  Line 11096 
                                
                                  He smote at Harrowde soone anon
                                
                                  And sende hym strokys gode won,
                                
                                  And to the todur hym well smote
                                
                                  Wyth a swyrde, þat well bote,
                                  Line 11100 
                                
                                  That bothe þey felle of þer stedys.
                                
                                  And syþen þer swerdys þey drewe, wythowte dredys:
                                
                                  Grete strokys þey smyten there
                                
                                  Vpon the helmys, that trysty were.
                                  Line 11104 
                                
                                  They hewe þe helme wyth golde enclosed
                                
                                  And the brymme small ymaylydde.
                                
                                  Togedur þey smete wyth swyrdys bryght:
                                
                                  Eydur odur to sloo they dud þer myght.
                                  Line 11108 
                                
                                  ¶ Harrowde hym drewe soone besyde;
                                
                                  For he wolde no lenger abyde.
                                
                                  'Knyght,' he seyde, 'gode and hende,

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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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