Zur  Literaturgeschichte  deb  Guy  von  Warwiclc.

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ffor  comoun  proüt
my  lyf  inparte
46  The  kyng,  the  lordys
to  tliis  pylgrym
Guy  for  to  dooii
ffor  Jesus  sake
5  ys  condescendyd,
vvitli  goddys  grace
as  the  conveneyoun
at  place  assigned
47  Off  tliis  empryse
tliis  couvencyoim
tymo  set  of  Jule
place  assigned
5  the  accord  rehersed,
doubylnosse
as  the  partycs
(for  short  conclusioun)
48  With  oute  the  gate,
the  place  callyd
in  inglyssh  tonge
or  ellis  Deuniark
5  meetyng  to  gedre
terryble  strokys
sparklys  ....
that  to  beholde
49  The  old  pylgrym
sparod  nat
on  his  lefft  shuldor
undir  the  bordour
5  a  streem  of  blood
the  geaunt  wood,
thoughte,  it  sliolde
that  Guyes  suerd
50  Wlian  Danys  sauh,
tliey  caulito  a  maner
Guy  lyk  a  knyght
requered  rnauly

good  wil  shal  nat  ffayll
to  set  thys  lond  in  esed
made  greet  instaunce
with  language  and  prayere.
un  to  the  kyng  plesaunce
and  for  his  moder  deere
lyk  as  ye  shall  heere,
affter  the  covenaunt,
justly  doth  rcquere,
to  mete  the  geaunt.
was  maad  no  long  delay,
pleynly  to  darreyne
up  on  the  XII.  day,
and  meetyng  of  tlies  tweyne,
the  Statute  and  the  peyne,
and  ffraude  set  a  syde,
wero  boundyn  in  serteyn
ther  by  to  abyde.
remembred  as  i  reede ;
of  antyquyte
named  Hyde  meede
nat  fer  from  the  cyte
there  men  myghte  see
lyk  the  dent  of  thonder,
out  off  ther  harnoys  fflee:
it  was  a  verray  wonder.
quyt  hym  lyk  a  knyght,
the  geaunt  to  assaylo:
smet  at  hym  with  suych  myght
of  his  avcntayll,
gan  by  his  sydes  rayll.
tliis  liydous  Colybrond,
gretly  hym  avayll,
was  broko  out  of  his  hond.
Guy  had  lost  his  suerd,
consolacyoun.
in  lierte  nat  afferd
of  the  champioun,

48,  7  hinter  oder  vor  sparklys  muss  etwas  fehlen.

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