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 ...

                                
                                  And wyth hym was Harrawte,
                                
                                  In batell dud neuyr defawte.
                                  Line 2252 
                                
                                  ¶ Then came prekynge Tyrrye,
                                
                                  A bolde knyght and an hardye.
                                
                                  He hath smetyn þe dewke Segwyne:
                                
                                  Hys hors he made hym for to tyne.
                                  Line 2256 
                                
                                  The dewke starte on fote:
                                
                                  He sawe no nodur bote.
                                
                                  He drewe hys swerde wyth myght
                                
                                  And defendyd hym, as a knyght.
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                                  Ther was no man, he myght come to,
                                
                                  But full sone he wolde hym sloo.
                                
                                  Tyrrye assayed the dewke than:
                                
                                  He hym defendyd, as a man.
                                  Line 2264 
                                
                                  The Almayns come on euery syde
                                
                                  Wyth scheldys and speres vnryde.
                                
                                  He ys woundyd ylle and sore:
                                
                                  Men wende, he schulde lyue [MS. lye.]  no more.
                                  Line 2268 
                                
                                  ¶ When Gye sye hym haue care,
                                
                                  Ther was none, þat he wold spare, [folio 175b:2] 
                                
                                  Nor none, that he myght reche,
                                
                                  That had nede of odur leche.
                                  Line 2272 
                                
                                  Than he smote a doghty knyght:
                                
                                  Of hys hors he made hym to lyght.
                                
                                  He had hym smetyn swythe sore,
                                
                                  That he rose vp no more.
                                  Line 2276 
                                
                                  Hys gode swerde he drewe owte
                                
                                  And smote all, that stode abowte,
                                
                                  To helpe þe dewke fro them away:
                                
                                  Many a man he slewe that day.
                                  Line 2280 
                                
                                  ¶ Than spake syr Gyowne:
                                
                                  'Dewke, herkyn to my resone.
                                
                                  To the cyte wyll we fare:
                                
                                  We may defende vs no mare.
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                                  Fyve hundurd knyghtys be redy

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