The Legend Of Sir Guy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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A pleasant song of the valiant deeds of chivalry atchieved by that noble knight Sir Guy of Warwick who for the love of fair Phelis became a hermit and died in a cave of craggy rocke a mile distant from WarwickA
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Was ever knight for ladyes sakeB
Soe tost in love as I Sir GuyC
For Phelis fayre that lady brightD
As ever man beheld with eyeC
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She gave me leave myself to tryC
The valiant knight with sheeld and speareE
Ere that her love shee wold grant meF
Which made mee venture far and neareE
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Then proved I a baron boldG
In deeds of armes the doughtyest knightD
That in those dayes in England wasH
With sword and speare in feild to fightD
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An English man I was by birtheI
In faith of Christ a christyan trueE
The wicked lawes of infidellsH
I sought by prowesse to subdueE
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'Nine' hundred twenty yeere and oddeE
After our Saviour Christ his birthI
When King Athelstone wore the crowneJ
I lived heere upon the earthI
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Sometime I was of Warwicke erleK
And as I sayd of very truthI
A ladyes love did me constraineJ
To seeke strange ventures in my youthI
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To win me fame by feates of armesH
In strange and sundry heathen landsH
Where I atchieved for her sakeB
Right dangerous conquests with my handsH
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For first I sayled to NormandyeC
And there I stoutlye wan in fightE
The emperours daughter of AlmaineJ
From manye a vallyant worthye knightE
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Then passed I the seas to GreeceH
To helpe the emperour in his rightE
Against the mightye souldans hoasteE
Of puissant Persians for to fightE
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Where I did slay of SarazensH
And heathen pagans manye a manJ
And slew the souldans cozen deereE
Who had to name doughtye ColdranJ
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Eskeldered a famous knightE
To death likewise I did pursueH
And Elmayne King of Tyre alsoeH
Most terrible in fight to vieweL
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I went into the souldans hoastE
To death likewise I did pursueH
And Elmayne King of Tyre alsoeH
Most terrible in fight to vieweL
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I went into the souldans hoastE
Being thither on embassage sentE
And brought his head awaye with meeF
I having slaine him in his tentE
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There was a dragon in that landE
Most fiercelye mett me by the wayeC
As hee a lyon did pursueH
Which I myself did alsoe slayC
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Then soon I past the seas from GreeceH
And came to Pavye land arightE
Where I the Duke of Pavye killedE
His hainous treason to requiteE
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To England then I came with speedeE
To wedd faire Phelis lady brightE
For love of whome I travelled farrE
To try my manhood and my mightE
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But when I had espoused herE
I stayd with her but fortye dayesH
Ere that I left this ladye faireE
And went from her beyond the seasH
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All cladd in gray in pilgrim sortE
My voyage from her I did takeB
Unto the blessed Holy LandE
For Jesus Christ my Saviours sakeB
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Where I Erle Jonas did redeemeF
And all his sonnes which were fifteeneJ
Who with the cruell SarazensH
In prisons for long time had beeneJ
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I slew the giant AmarantE
In battel fiercelye hand to handE
And doughty Barknard killed IC
A treacherous knight of Pavye landE
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Then I to England came againeJ
And here with Colbronde fell I foughtE
An ugly gyant which the DanesH
Had for their champion hither broughtE
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I overcame him in the fieldE
And slewe him soone right valliantlyeC
Wherebye this land I did redeemeF
From Danish tribute utterlyeC
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And afterwards I offered uppM
The use of weapons solemnlyeC
At Winchester whereas I foughtE
In sight of manye farr and nyeC
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'But first ' near Windsor I did slayeC
A bore of passing might and strengthI
Whose like in England never wasH
For hugenesse both in bredth and lengthI
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Some of his bones in Warwicke yettE
Within the castle there doe lyeC
One of his sheeld bones to this dayE
Hangs in the citye of CoventryeC
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On Dunsmore heath I alsoe sleweL
A monstrous wyld and cruell beastE
Calld the Dun cow of Dunsmore heathI
Which manye people had opprestE
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Some of her bones in Warwicke yettE
Still for a monument doe lyeC
And there exposed to lookers vieweL
As wonderous strange they may espyeC
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A dragon in NorthumberlandE
I alsoe did in fight destroyeC
Which did bothe man and beast oppresseH
And all the countrye sore annoyeC
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At length to Warwicke I did comeF
Like pilgrim poore and was not knowneJ
And there I lived a hermitts lifeN
A mile and more out of the towneJ
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Where with my hands I hewed a houseH
Out of a craggy rocke of stoneJ
And lived like a palmer pooreE
WIthin that cave myself aloneJ
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And daylye came to begg my breadE
Of Phelis att my castle gateE
Not knowne unto my loved wiffeN
Who dailye mourned for her mateE
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Till att the last I fell sore sickeB
Yea sicke soe sore that I must dyeC
I sent to her a ring of goldeE
By which shee knewe me presentlyeC
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Then shee repairing to the caveN
Before that I gave up the ghostE
Herself closd up my dying eyesH
My Phelis faire whom I lovd mostE
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Thus dreadful death did me arrestE
To bring my corpes unto the graveN
And like a palmer dyed IC
Whereby I sought my soule to saveN
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My body that endured this toyleC
Though now it be consumed to moldE
My statue faire engraven in stoneJ
In Warwicke still you may beholdE

Anonymous Olde English



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