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 ...

                                
                                  'Harrawde,' he seyde, 'men clepe me
                                
                                  Of Ardurne in that cuntre.'
                                
                                  ¶ When Gye harde þat, also smerte
                                
                                  Downe of hys stede sone he sterte.
                                  Line 1344 
                                
                                  He toke hym in hys armes twoo,
                                
                                  Owt of the stedde wolde he not goo. [folio 169b:2] 
                                
                                  He kyssyd hym an hundurde sythe:
                                
                                  Neuyr before was he so blythe.
                                  Line 1348 
                                
                                  Wyth hys eyen he wepyd sore
                                
                                  For yoye, that he stode thore,
                                
                                  And seyde, 'syr Harrowde, þou seye me, why
                                
                                  That þou knowyst not syr Gye.'
                                  Line 1352 
                                
                                  Then he myght no lenger stonde,
                                
                                  But in swowne he felle to grownde.
                                
                                  Ther was yoye wythowte care:
                                
                                  Ayther askyd other of hys fare.
                                  Line 1356 
                                
                                  ¶ Nowe be they bothe two sett:
                                
                                  They haue grete yoye, þat þey be mett.
                                
                                  Than Gye all hath to hym seyde,
                                
                                  How he hym on hys hors leyde;
                                  Line 1360 
                                
                                  Vnto an abbey how he hym bare,
                                
                                  For þat he schulde be beryed thare.
                                
                                  For nothynge wolde he late, [MS. lett.] 
                                
                                  But ylke tolde odur of þer state.
                                  Line 1364 
                                
                                  Now begynneth Harowde to spelle
                                
                                  And of hys sorowe he can hym telle,
                                
                                  How he was helyd of hys wownde
                                
                                  And made bothe hole and sownde
                                  Line 1368 
                                
                                  Be a monke of that abbey,
                                
                                  As ye haue herde me before sey,
                                
                                  And how he went to many a londe
                                
                                  Gye to seke, yf he myght be [be omitted in MS.]  fonde.
                                  Line 1372 
                                
                                  ¶ Now be they horsyd bothe thare
                                
                                  And to the cyte dud they fare.

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