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 ...

                                
                                  That there sperys all tobraste.
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                                  Than þey toke þer bryght brondys
                                
                                  And faght togedur wyth þer hondys. [folio 174b:2] 
                                
                                  Gye claue hys helme and hys schelde,
                                
                                  That þe pecys lay in the felde.
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                                  Tyrrye smote to Gye a stroke:
                                
                                  As god wolde, hys swyrde broke.
                                
                                  Sone Tyrrye turned hys stede
                                
                                  And fledde faste, as he had nede:
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                                  Full dere had that stroke be boght,
                                
                                  Had he there dwellyd oght.
                                
                                  The Almayns flewe wyth þer brondys
                                
                                  Bryght drawen in ther hondys.
                                  Line 2124 
                                
                                  ¶ The dewke Segwyne, for sothe y say,
                                
                                  To þe cyte he toke þe waye.
                                
                                  Syr Gye of Warwyk wyth hym ys gone
                                
                                  And hys men euerychone.
                                  Line 2128 
                                
                                  Dewkys, erlys and barons
                                
                                  They broght wyth þem to þer prysouns.
                                
                                  All, that in the cyte were,
                                
                                  Thankyd god wyth gode chere.
                                  Line 2132 
                                
                                  ¶ Now be þey to þer ynnes wente
                                
                                  Euery man wyth gode entente
                                
                                  And thankyd god in þat place,
                                
                                  That had sente þem soche grace.
                                  Line 2136 
                                
                                  The dewke ys went vnto hys towre:
                                
                                  The prysoners he lokyd wyth moche honowre,
                                
                                  The dewke Raynere of Sesoyne [MS. Sesyone.] 
                                
                                  And the erle Waldynere of Coloyne [MS. Coleyne.] 
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                                  And Gawter, the stewarde,
                                
                                  That was a nobull man and a harde:
                                
                                  He let serue them full tyte,
                                
                                  Or he wolde any mossel byte.
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                                  ¶ The dewke to hys systur can say,
                                
                                  That was gente and a feyre maye:

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