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 ...

                                
                                  Hyt was all wastyd wyth warre and fyȝt.
                                
                                  To þe ȝate þey came full ryght.
                                
                                  ¶ Then quod Harrowde to þe portere:
                                
                                  'Speke wyth me, for seynt Rychere.
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                                  Who ys lorde of thys cuntre?
                                
                                  We aske harbowre for charyte.
                                
                                  To morne ȝerly, when hyt ys day,
                                
                                  We wyll wende forthe owre way.'
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                                  The porter seyde: 'be thys day,
                                
                                  Of my lorde can y not say,
                                
                                  But in þe halle ys my lady
                                
                                  Full sorowfull and full drery:
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                                  For hur lorde, that ys forlorne,
                                
                                  Sche mornyth boþe euyn and morne,
                                
                                  But to my lady wyll y goo
                                
                                  And telle hur of yow twoo.'
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                                  ¶ The porter went into þe halle:
                                
                                  Before þe lady he can down falle.
                                
                                  'Madame,' he seyde, 'here wythowt
                                
                                  Stonde ii knyghtys bolde and stowte.
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                                  That oon ys yonge, þat othur ys olde:
                                
                                  They seme bothe curtes and bolde.
                                
                                  They be men of farre cuntre,
                                
                                  By ther array as semyth me,
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                                  And boþe þey be of vncowthe lande
                                
                                  And þey beseche þe, y vndurstande,
                                
                                  Of harbowre for thys nyght
                                
                                  For the loue of god almyght,
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                                  And ȝerly at morowe ryse þey wyll
                                
                                  And no lenger abyde they nylle.'
                                
                                  ¶ And þe lady comawndyd þem in to come
                                
                                  And preyde to Cryste of heuyn, godys sone,
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                                  That sche þat day byde myght [folio 234b:2] 
                                
                                  Of hur lorde to haue a syght.
                                
                                  The porter ȝede ageyne anon
                                
                                  And swyþe he let þem in goon.

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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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