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 ...

                                
                                  'Defende vs, whyll we may stande.
                                
                                  Helpe hym euyr god, that ys bolde,
                                
                                  Whyll he may stonde and wepon holde.'
                                  Line 1936 
                                
                                  ¶ Now they wente in hye,
                                
                                  Gye and hys companye.
                                
                                  There beganne a grete batayle:
                                
                                  Euery man odur faste can assayle.
                                  Line 1940 
                                
                                  Or the battell endyd were,
                                
                                  Many a stronge knyght dyed there.
                                
                                  Gye smote the dewke Raynere:
                                
                                  Of hys stede he dud hym bere.
                                  Line 1944 
                                
                                  He hyt a nodur in a stownde,
                                
                                  That he felle to the grownde:
                                
                                  Thorow þe body he hym smote,
                                
                                  He rose no more, wele y wote.
                                  Line 1948 
                                
                                  Than he smote Waldynere
                                
                                  Owt of hys schelde a quartere.
                                
                                  From hys sadull downe he starte:
                                
                                  I wot, Waldynere hyt dud smerte.
                                  Line 1952 
                                
                                  Another knyght he sloo tyte
                                
                                  Wyth hys swyrde, þat wolde byte.
                                
                                  Then forthe came Gylmyne,
                                
                                  The dewke Segwyns cosyn.
                                  Line 1956 
                                
                                  The erle smote abowte faste,
                                
                                  But Gye of hys hors hym caste.
                                
                                  Gye peyned hym wele to do
                                
                                  And all hys men dud also.
                                  Line 1960 
                                
                                  Of þe Almayns þey haue tane,
                                
                                  Many woundyd and many slane. [folio 173b:2] 
                                
                                  When he sawe dewke Raynere
                                
                                  And the constabull Waldynere,
                                  Line 1964 
                                
                                  How þer men were broght to grownde
                                
                                  Wyth grete yre yn a stownde,
                                
                                  Gye beganne to crye in hye:
                                
                                  'Ȝelde yowreselfe or ye dye.'
                                  Line 1968 
                                
                                  Than he hyed full faste:

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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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