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 ...

                                
                                  'Syr dewke,' he seyde, 'turne the
                                
                                  And oon tyme juste wyth me.
                                
                                  Thou art a bolde knyght and a kene:
                                
                                  For sothe, nowe hyt schall be sene.'
                                  Line 1448 
                                
                                  'Saddok,' he seyde, 'let be thy stryfe.
                                
                                  I wolde not do þat for my lyfe.
                                
                                  I loue the 1dere in my herte:1 [1_1 MS. in my dere herte.] 
                                
                                  To juste wyth the hyt wolde me smerte.
                                  Line 1452 
                                
                                  Thou art my lordys cosyn:
                                
                                  To do þe harme þe shame were myn,
                                
                                  When y the vnarmedde see.
                                
                                  Soche a coward wyll y not bee.'
                                  Line 1456 
                                
                                  ¶ Then seyde Saddok: 'þou art a cowart
                                
                                  And a man of feynte harte.
                                
                                  So god me helpe in trynyte,
                                
                                  But þou ones juste wyth me, [folio 170b:1] 
                                  Line 1460 
                                
                                  I schall the hurte thys ylke day
                                
                                  And wrath þe, yf that y may,
                                
                                  And kepe þe, well wytterly,
                                
                                  As for my dedly enmye.'
                                  Line 1464 
                                
                                  ¶ He ranne to hym wyth grete yre
                                
                                  And the dewke turnyd hym þere.
                                
                                  Faste þey smote þen togedur,
                                
                                  That þer sperys can toschyder.
                                  Line 1468 
                                
                                  Saddok smote hym furste there
                                
                                  Owt of þe schelde a quartere.
                                
                                  He smote hym þorow þe arme also,
                                
                                  That the spere braste in twoo.
                                  Line 1472 
                                
                                  Than beganne the dewke to smyte,
                                
                                  For he thoght grete dyspyte.
                                
                                  Thorow þe body þe spere glode:
                                
                                  Of that dynte þe deþe he hadde.
                                  Line 1476 
                                
                                  He toke þe body, þere hyt laye,
                                
                                  And bare hyt to an abbay
                                
                                  And beryed hyt sone anon

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