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 ...

                                
                                  When the emperowre had ete
                                
                                  And hys grete care forgete,
                                
                                  He clepyd hys hunte to hym there
                                
                                  And seyde, he wolde chace þe dere
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                                  Erly in the morowtyde
                                
                                  In the forest, þat was so wyde,
                                
                                  Bothe at hartys and at hyndys
                                
                                  And wylde bestys of odur kyndys,
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                                  'Preuely that hyt be wroght,
                                
                                  That þe dewke wytt hyt noght.'
                                
                                  ¶ All harde thys a spye,
                                
                                  That was nye, wytterlye.
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                                  Owte of the courte ys he gone
                                
                                  And to þe dewke went sone anone.
                                
                                  He came rennyng all in hye
                                
                                  To the dewke preuelye.
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                                  'Syr dewke,' he seyde, 'vndurstande;
                                
                                  For y schall telle the tythande.
                                
                                  The ryche emperowre Raynere
                                
                                  Schall to morowe chace þe dere
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                                  In the foreste preuelye
                                
                                  Wyth a lytull companye.
                                
                                  Syr,' he seyde, 'y lye þe noght.
                                
                                  Be hym, þat all þys worlde haþe wroght,
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                                  Ye may to morne there, wytterlye,
                                
                                  Take þem euerychone, sekurlye.'
                                
                                  ¶ When he had hys errande sayde,
                                
                                  The dewke on hym hys hande layde. [folio 176a:2] 
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                                  'Yf hyt be sothe, that thou seyste here,
                                
                                  Thou schalt haue for thy labere
                                
                                  An hundurd besawntys of golde
                                
                                  To chere the wyth (for þou art oolde),
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                                  And to dubbe the a knyght
                                
                                  Ryght wythynne þys fowrtnyght.
                                
                                  ¶ Gye and Harrawde, wyll ye here?
                                
                                  Come to me euerychone here

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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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