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 ...

                                
                                  There de dwellyth and hys meyne.
                                
                                  I come to hym in hys mystere:
                                
                                  I haue hym holpe wyth my powere.
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                                  Then had he, that knyght free,
                                
                                  Thretty knyghtys in hys meyne:
                                
                                  Now hath he iii hundurde wyght
                                
                                  And other men well dyght.
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                                  Hys londe ys well wonne agayn
                                
                                  And hys enmyes take and many slayn.
                                
                                  Here on þe hylle well ofte y stande
                                
                                  Agayne þe men, þat passe þe londe.
                                  Line 11888 
                                
                                  I aske euery man, that y fynde,
                                
                                  Of my fadur some tythynge,
                                
                                  But herde y neuer man speke wyth mowþe,
                                
                                  That oght of hym telle cowthe.
                                  Line 11892 
                                
                                  Therfore ofte was y wrathe
                                
                                  And many a man y haue done skaþe.'
                                
                                  ¶ Harrowde herkenyd hym ryȝt þore
                                
                                  And wyth hys eyen he wepyd sore.
                                  Line 11896 
                                
                                  Quod Harrowde: 'leue syr knyght,
                                
                                  Telle me þy name, for god almyȝt.'
                                
                                  'Asslake,' he seyde, 'ys my name.
                                
                                  Here y haue had full grete schame.'
                                  Line 11900 
                                
                                  ¶ Harrowdes herte wolde nere breke:
                                
                                  Vnneþe a worde myght he speke.
                                
                                  'Asslake, what haste thou done? [folio 239a:1] 
                                
                                  I am þy fadur, þou art my sone.
                                  Line 11904 
                                
                                  I am Harrowde, þat þou haste soght:
                                
                                  Iesu hath me hedur broght.
                                
                                  Y haue suffurde paynes stronge
                                
                                  To seke my lordys sone full longe.
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                                  Loo, he ys here, syr Raynbowrne,
                                
                                  The nobull knyȝtys sone, syr Gyown.
                                
                                  Wyth hym þou haste foghtyn longe:
                                
                                  Ye be boþe wyght and stronge.
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                                  Falle down to hys fote in hye

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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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