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 ...

                                
                                  ¶ He sawe a watur depe and brode:
                                
                                  Thedurwarde full faste he rode.
                                
                                  Beȝonde þe watur he sawe a grene:
                                
                                  A feyrer had neuer kynge nor quene. [folio 235b:1] 
                                  Line 11392 
                                
                                  All maner flowrys grewe there,
                                
                                  That of any vertews were.
                                
                                  Ther was in þat herber grene
                                
                                  All spycys, that myght bene.
                                  Line 11396 
                                
                                  Wythynne þer stode a palays bryght:
                                
                                  A feyrer had neuer kynge nor knyȝt.
                                
                                  The postys were of fyne corall
                                
                                  And þe sparrys of cydre medylde wythall.
                                  Line 11400 
                                
                                  Of fyne corall were the stonys
                                
                                  Medulde wyth metall for þe nonys.
                                
                                  Some were of safewrs and some of saradyn
                                
                                  And some were emrodys fyne.
                                  Line 11404 
                                
                                  Hyt was closyd, that ylke palays,
                                
                                  Wythynne þe wallys wyth saradyns. [Corrupt. See note.] 
                                
                                  Hyt was bataylyd longe and wyde
                                
                                  Wyth flowrys coruyn on euery syde.
                                  Line 11408 
                                
                                  All were þe wallys of marbull fre.
                                
                                  Before þe ȝatys there stode a tree:
                                
                                  Theryn were fowlys nyght and day,
                                
                                  That songyn mony a mery lay.
                                  Line 11412 
                                
                                  The nobull array of þat ylke halle
                                
                                  Y haue no tyme to telle yow all;
                                
                                  For, yf y schulde hyt yow telle,
                                
                                  All to longe y schulde here dwelle.
                                  Line 11416 
                                
                                  ¶ Raynbowrn all awondurd was
                                
                                  Ouyr that watur for to passe.
                                
                                  He prouyd þe watur wyth hys spere,
                                
                                  Yf þat hys hors myȝt hym ouer bere.
                                  Line 11420 
                                
                                  But he nyghed no maner grownde:
                                
                                  He was full drery in that stownde.
                                
                                  But tyll hymselfe he can say,

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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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