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 ...

                                
                                  For hys men, that dedde ware.
                                
                                  'Lordyngys, what ys yowre redde
                                
                                  Of owre knyghtys, that be dedde?
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                                  I schall be neuyr glad nor blythe,
                                
                                  Or y be vengyd on hym swythe.'
                                
                                  ¶ 'Syr,' seyde dewke Oton of Payuye,
                                
                                  'Let be thyn yre and thyn envye.
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                                  Or hyt be passyd dayes thre, [folio 172a:2] 
                                
                                  Vengyd wele schalt thou bee.
                                
                                  Ye schall take yowre baronage
                                
                                  And odur men, þat wyll take wage.
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                                  Of Sesoyne [MS. Sesyone.]  the dewke Raynere
                                
                                  And the constable Waldynere
                                
                                  And y schall come to yow in hye
                                
                                  And brynge grete cheualrye.
                                  Line 1740 
                                
                                  To the cyte wyll we fare.
                                
                                  Yf Gye and þe dewke be thare,
                                
                                  But yf y take the traytowre
                                
                                  And brynge hym vnto yowre towre
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                                  And put hym in yowre depe pryson
                                
                                  (For hym þer schall goo no rawnsome),
                                
                                  Broke y neuyr ellys my lyfe
                                
                                  Nodur my chyldyr nor my wyfe.'
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                                  ¶ Than hym spake the emperowre:
                                
                                  'Thou art a man of grete valowre.
                                
                                  Thou haste me geue cownceyle, [MS. cowncell.] 
                                
                                  I wene, hyt schall me avayle.
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                                  Syr,' he seyde, 'make the ȝare
                                
                                  To the constable to fare
                                
                                  And to the dewke of Payuye
                                
                                  Wyth hys grete cheualrye:
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                                  To Argone ye schall in hye
                                
                                  And take the dewke and Gye.
                                
                                  Yf ye may do that ylke dede,
                                
                                  I schall the helpe at all nede.'

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