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 ...

                                
                                  Whereto schulde þou passe the see?
                                
                                  Hyt ys bettur at home to bee.'
                                
                                  Then spake hys modur dere:
                                
                                  'Leef soone, dwelle thou here.
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                                  Do aftur thy fadurs redde:
                                
                                  Hyt wyll the helpe from the dedde.
                                
                                  All thys yere thou wyth vs bee
                                
                                  And afturward þou passe the see.
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                                  Thou wottyst, we haue no nodur heyre,
                                
                                  But thou, my swete sone dere.
                                
                                  Yf þou were deed thore,
                                
                                  Heyre schulde we haue no more.
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                                  Who schulde þen aftur owre day
                                
                                  Haue owre londys, yf þou ne may?'
                                
                                  'Fadur,' he seyde, 'god the kepe,'
                                
                                  And therwyth he can wepe;
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                                  'And my modur dere alsoo:
                                
                                  Haue gode day, for y wyll goo.'
                                
                                  ¶ Now ys Gye goon fro hys kynne,
                                
                                  God hym sende ageyne wyth wynne.
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                                  To the see he ys goon,
                                
                                  A gode schyppe there he nome.
                                
                                  He passyd the see in hye,
                                
                                  Comen he ys to Normandye.
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                                  Thorowe the londe vtturly [folio 167a:1] 
                                
                                  He dud grete cheualry.
                                
                                  Forthe he went to Bretayne.
                                
                                  There were justyngys in Spayne,
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                                  That he went to turnaye,
                                
                                  Whyll he was there, euery day.
                                
                                  Now wendyth he fro Spayne,
                                
                                  Comen he ys to Almayne.
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                                  Fro þens he went to Lumbardye,
                                
                                  There was grete cheualrye.
                                
                                  Thorow hys strenkyth þere he wanne
                                
                                  Grete looueyng of many a man.

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