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 ...

                                
                                  Wyth gode swerdys, were made of stele. [folio 174b:1] 
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                                  Tho came Harrowde on hys stede,
                                
                                  That was a gode knyght at euery nede.
                                
                                  Wyth a swyrde oon he smote
                                
                                  That he felle downe at hys fote.
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                                  ¶ That sawe the erle Tyrrye,
                                
                                  A gode knyght and an hardye.
                                
                                  Harrawde to smyte sone he yede:
                                
                                  He made hym to falle downe in þat stede.
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                                  Aftur hys folke he dud crye:
                                
                                  The Almayns come hastylye.
                                
                                  The dewke Segwyne þey sorowe wroght
                                
                                  And hys men to dethe broght.
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                                  Wyth strenkyth þey were dreuyn ageyne,
                                
                                  Many woundyd and many slayne.
                                
                                  ¶ When he sawe, the dewke Segwyne,
                                
                                  He was wrothe, be seynt Martyne,
                                  Line 2092 
                                
                                  And all in hys wraþe seyde to Gye:
                                
                                  'Thys ys grete schame, wytterlye,
                                
                                  When þus allone þat oon knyght
                                
                                  Schulde vs do that onryght.'
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                                  Gye hym answeryd, sawnce fayle:
                                
                                  'Turne ageyne, yf hym batayle.
                                
                                  Hyt ys bettur slayne to be,
                                
                                  Then cowardely awey to flee.'
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                                  ¶ They leyde þe Almayns so vppon,
                                
                                  That they gaf back euerychon.
                                
                                  Ageynste þem rydyth Tyrrye
                                
                                  And makyth many a man blody.
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                                  When Tyrrye sawe syr Gye,
                                
                                  He rode to hym, as knyght hardye.
                                
                                  He wende Gye to haue slayne,
                                
                                  But he was turned soone agayne.
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                                  Betwene þem two was grete fyght:
                                
                                  Gye hym turned, as an hardy knyght.
                                
                                  They smote togedur so 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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