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 ...

                                
                                  Ageyne the dewke for to fyght:
                                
                                  He hath done ageyne the ryght.'
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                                  'Syr,' they seyde wyth oon assent,
                                
                                  'We schall do thy comawndement.
                                
                                  We schall neuer thens goo,
                                
                                  Or we haue done hym moche woo.'
                                  Line 1520 
                                
                                  ¶ Now wendyth the grete ooste
                                
                                  Wyth grete pryde and mekyll boste.
                                
                                  There þey wente, brode and wyde
                                
                                  They dystroyed on euery syde.
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                                  There ys lefte but oon cyte
                                
                                  Far and nere in that contre;
                                
                                  That ys the cyte of Argone,
                                
                                  That ys formed aftur Rome.
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                                  Hyt ys closed wyth lyme and stone:
                                
                                  In all þys worlde ys bettur none.'
                                
                                  ¶ When þe pylgryme had all seyde,
                                
                                  Mete and drynke to hym was leyde.
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                                  Gye herkenyd euery dele
                                
                                  And vndurstode hyt full wele.
                                
                                  Then þoght Gye, there he stode,
                                
                                  To helpe þe dewke þat hyt were gode.
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                                  He seyde: 'Harrawde, what redyst þou?
                                
                                  Yf me cowncell, for thy prowe. [folio 171a:1] 
                                
                                  Wyll we helpe the dewke hende,
                                
                                  Or we wyll to Ynglonde wende?
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                                  What ys thy wylle? saye nowe;
                                
                                  For þy cownsell wele y trowe.'
                                
                                  ¶ Syr Harrawde spake than:
                                
                                  'Syr,' he seyde, 'y am thy man.
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                                  I schall þe yeue gode cownsayle,
                                
                                  That schall the full wele avayle.
                                
                                  I rede the, harnes the ryght wele
                                
                                  Bothe in yron and in stele
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                                  And wyth þe v hundurd men on ende:
                                
                                  To the dewke wyll we wende.

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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,; 1875-6.

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