[...]Ordynges lysten & holde you styll
Of doughty men tell I wyll
That hath ben in many a stoure
And helde vp englond his honour
That before this tyme hathe been
By a knyght it is that I mene
Syr Beuys of hampton the knyght hyght.
That neuer was shewed a cowarde in fyght
And by his fader that hyght syr Guy
A stalworth knyght and a full hardy
And how syr Guy betrayed was
Thrugh hys wyfe alas alas
[...] renowne
[...]
[Page] In crystendome and also in het [...]
Full well is knowen syr Guyes [...]
In all the londe of crystente
was none founde so gode as he
while he was yonge and iolyfe
wolde syr guy wedde no wyf
But whanne he began to elde.
wexed feble and vnwelde
And toke hys leue of cheualry
And dwelled in englonde certenly
In that tyme kynge Edga [...] anone
Sente after syr Guy full sone
And syr Guy was [...]
[...]

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