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 ...

                                
                                  All my strenkyth now ys away.
                                
                                  Syth y myght armes bere,
                                
                                  Ferde of oon was y neuer ere.
                                  Line 11812 
                                
                                  But for hys name y comawnde þe,
                                
                                  That suffurde deþe vpon a tre:
                                
                                  Telle me, in what maner of wyse
                                
                                  I haue thys drede and þys fayntyse.
                                  Line 11816 
                                
                                  Other art þou þe deuyll of helle,
                                
                                  That art comyn me to qwelle?
                                
                                  Or what þou wylt, for charyte,
                                
                                  Euyll or gode, now telle hyt me.'
                                  Line 11820 
                                
                                  ¶ 'Nay,' seyde Harowde, 'do wey þy fare;
                                
                                  For of [of over the line in the same hand.]  me schalt þou wyte no mare,
                                
                                  But thou telle me beforne,
                                
                                  What ys þy name and where þou were borne.
                                  Line 11824 
                                
                                  Afturward may thou here,
                                
                                  What y am, that stondyth here.
                                
                                  Sethyn may þou wytt of þys knyȝt,
                                
                                  What he ys, anon ryght.
                                  Line 11828 
                                
                                  We [Wh blotted out before We.]  schall þe telle all þys þynge,
                                
                                  Wyth þat þou make to vs no lesynge.'
                                
                                  ¶ And he answeryd: 'ye schall not here [folio 238b:1] 
                                
                                  For drede of hym in no manere,
                                  Line 11832 
                                
                                  But for to wyt, for what þynge
                                
                                  I haue þys drede and þys qwakynge.
                                
                                  Y was borne in Ynglonde
                                
                                  In Wallyngforde, y vndurstonde.
                                  Line 11836 
                                
                                  My fadur was a doghty knyght:
                                
                                  Harrowde of Ardern, for soþe, he hyȝt.
                                
                                  When he went owt of þat cuntre
                                
                                  To seeke hys lordys soon so fre,
                                  Line 11840 
                                
                                  That marchandys stale on wykkyd manere,
                                
                                  Sethyn more, then vii yere,
                                
                                  The erle of Leycestur kepyd me

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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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