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 ...

                                
                                  We schall hym helpe wyth gode chere:
                                
                                  Of socowre he hath grete mystere.
                                  Line 1552 
                                
                                  Ye may so do in that stowre,
                                
                                  That euyr ye may gete honowre.'
                                
                                  'Gramercy, syr,' seyde Gye;
                                
                                  'I the thanke, wytturlye.
                                  Line 1556 
                                
                                  Now y knowe, þou louyste me,
                                
                                  When y soche cowncell haue of the.
                                
                                  To þe cyte wyll we hye
                                
                                  Wyth moche haste and cheualrye.'
                                  Line 1560 
                                
                                  ¶ Fyve hundurde knyghtys yare,
                                
                                  That were redy wyth hym to fare,
                                
                                  Of all Frawnce þey were the beste,
                                
                                  Armed well on hors [o in hors not quite clear in MS.]  preste.
                                  Line 1564 
                                
                                  To Argone they be comen,
                                
                                  Into the cyte þe way þey nomen.
                                
                                  They toke ther ynnes in the cyte:
                                
                                  Gladde may the dewke be.
                                  Line 1568 
                                
                                  ¶ On the morne Gye rose
                                
                                  And to churche soone he gose:
                                
                                  Masse and matens þer he harde
                                
                                  And sythen to hys ynne farde.
                                  Line 1572 
                                
                                  He sawe men renne same:
                                
                                  He þoght be þem, hyt was no game.
                                
                                  Scheldys and sperys he sawe þem bere,
                                
                                  Ryght as hyt were to the were.
                                  Line 1576 
                                
                                  Gye sone clepyd a man:
                                
                                  'What men,' he seyde, 'be ȝone? [folio 171a:2] 
                                
                                  Telle me, pur charyte,
                                
                                  Why ys thys haste in thys cyte?'
                                  Line 1580 
                                
                                  'Syr,' he seyde, 'be thys day,
                                
                                  Y schall the the sothe say.
                                
                                  Thys ys the steward to the emperowre,
                                
                                  That ys a man of grete valowre:
                                  Line 1584 
                                
                                  He ys holden of grete pryce

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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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