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 ...

                                
                                  Faste peyned hym syr Gye:
                                
                                  So dud Harrawde, wytterlye.
                                
                                  The Almayns were ouyrcome,
                                
                                  Some slayne and some nome.
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                                  Wele had Gye spedd that day:
                                
                                  So may all that eyte say.
                                
                                  The Almayns be scowmfett
                                
                                  Wythowte any more lett.
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                                  ¶ Now ys Gye turned ageyne:
                                
                                  Of hys dede he was fayne.
                                
                                  He and hys felows redde,
                                
                                  Ryche prysoners wyth þem ledde.
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                                  To hys ynne ys he gone,
                                
                                  He and hys felows euery oon.
                                
                                  Bolde þey were, sawns fayle;
                                
                                  For þey had wonne the batayle.
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                                  Gye restyd hym a thrawe:
                                
                                  All hys armvr he dud of drawe.
                                
                                  ¶ When þe dewke herde tythyng,
                                
                                  He was then a yolye thynge.
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                                  When he wyste, þat Gye was come,
                                
                                  The men slayne and þe steward nome,
                                
                                  He lepe on a palfraye,
                                
                                  To Gyes chaumbur he toke þe way.
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                                  He gret hym on feyre manere,
                                
                                  For hys comyng he made gode chere.
                                
                                  'Welcome,' he seyde, 'syr Gye,
                                
                                  And þy felows, sekyrlye.
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                                  Now y wene to vengyd be
                                
                                  On myn enmyes, þat hate me.
                                
                                  They warre on me day and nyght:
                                
                                  That ys all wythowte ryght.
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                                  Syr Gye, y geue þe all myn honowre
                                
                                  Of my castell and my towre
                                
                                  And also of all my londe,
                                
                                  My men to serue the to þy honde.

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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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