%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Pleasant Song of the Valiant Deeds of Chivalry./ Atchieved by that Noble Knight Sir Guy of Warwick, who for the love of fair/ Phillis, became a Hermet, and dyed in a Cave of Craggy Rock, a Mile distant/ from Warwick. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1684-1686 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/01/2008 20248

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1.522-523 R234217 1 Was Ever Man Guy of Warwick Was Ever Man WAs ever Knight for Ladies sake,/ so tost in love, as I Sir Guy, uneven inking: [A] pleasant song . . . Pepys 1.522-523 Wing P2561A; Rollins (2) 2118 (Jan. 5, 1592, II, 601, Rich. Jones); Rollins (2) 1057 (Dec. 14, 1624, IV, 132); Rollins (2) 2119 (Mch. 1, 1675, ii, 497). Woodblock 1: below title, above columns 1 and 2 : A seated armored knight rides a horse toward the right of the cut. The horse is white or light colored, and wears decorated trappings and plumes. It balances on it's hind legs, mid-step. The rider has a moustache and wears a close helm or armet helmet with several plumes. His feet stand in the stirrups. He holds the reins with his right hand and holds what appears to be a boar's head on a pole in his left. He wears a baldric that streams behind him. A lion walks alongside the horse.: 125 x 128 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 522 A Pleasant Song of the Valiant Deeds of Chivalry./ Atchieved by that Noble Knight Sir Guy of Warwick, who for the love of fair/ Phillis, became a Hermet, and dyed in a Cave of Craggy Rock, a Mile distant/ from Warwick. A Pleasant Song of the Valiant Deeds of Chivalry. Atchieved by that Noble Knight Sir Guy of Warwick, who for the love of fair Phillis, became a Hermet, and dyed in a Cave of Craggy Rock, a Mile distant from Warwick. A Pleasant Song of the Valiant Deeds of Chivalry. Achieved by That Noble Knight Sir Guy of Warwick, Who for the Love of Fair Phyllis, Became a Hermet, and Died in a Cave of Craggy Rock, a Mile Distant From Warwick. single sheet oblong folio, pasted across 2 pages, 263 x 360 cropped left, right and bottom edges, creased, holed 1684-1686 Printed for I Clarke, UU. Thackeray, and T. Passinger J Clarke, W Thackeray, T Passinger Blagden

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 5/1/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America A Small Promiscuous Supplement love nobility/court travel violence virtue Ballads, English 17th century Broadsides, England 17th century 05/01/2008 Checker Patrick Ludolph checked transcription, metadata added, xml created 08/16/2006 Checker Catherine Zusky checked transcription 02/24/2005 Transcriber Simone Chess original transcription 08/2/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage/Jessica Murphy Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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WAs ever Knight for Ladies sake, so tost in love, as I Sir Guy, For Phillis fair that Lady bright, as ever man beheld with mortal eye: She gave me leave my self to try, the valiant Knight with shield & spear, E're that her love she would grant me, which made me venture far and near. The proud Sir Guy a Baron bold, in deeds of arms the doubtful Knight That every day in England was, with Sword and Spear in field to fight An English-man I was by birth, in faith of Christ, a Christian true, The wicked Laws of Infidels I sought by power to subdue. Two hundred twenty years and odd, after our Saviour Christ his birth, When King Athelston wore the Crown, I lived here upon the earth, Sometimes I was of Warwick Earl, and as I said on very truth, A Ladies love did me constrain, to seek strange ventures in my youth.
To try my fame by feats of arms in staange and sundry Heathen Lands, Where I atchieved for her sake, right dangerous Conquests with my hands, For first I sail'd to Normandy, and there I stoutly won in fight: The Emperor's Daughter of Almany, from many a valiant worthy Knight. Then passed I the Seas of Greece, to help the Emperor to his right, Against the mighty Souldans host, of puissant Persians for to fight: Where I did slay of Sarazens, and Heathen Pagans many a man, And slew the Souldians Cousin dear, who had to name, Daughty Colbron. Ezkeldered that Famous Knight, to death likewise I did pursue, And Almain King of Tyre also, most tirrable too in fight to view, I went into the Soldans Host, being thither on ambassage sent, And brought away his head we, I having slain him in his Tent.
THere was a Dragon in the Land. which I also my self did slay, As he a Lyon did persue. most fiercly met me by the way: From thence I past the Seas of Greece, and came to Pavy Land aright: Where I the Duke of Pavy kill'd, his hanious Treason to requite, And after came into this Land, towards fair Phillis Lady bright, For love of whom I travelled far, to try my manhood and my might, But when I had espoused her, I staid with her but forty days, But there I left this Lady fair, and then I went beyond the Seas. All clad in gray in Pilgrime sort, my Voyage from her I did take, Unto that blessed Holy Land, for Jesus Christ my Saviours sake, Where I Earl Jonas did redeem, and all his sons which were fifteen, Who with the cruel Sarazen, in Prison for long time had been. I slew the Gyant Amarant, in Battle fiercely hand to hand, And daughty Barknard killed I, the mighty Duke of that same Land: Then I to England came again, and here with Colbron fell I fought,
An ugly Gyant which the Danes, had for their Champion hither brought, I overcame him in the field, and slew him did right valiantly, Where I the Land did then redeem, from Danish tribute utterly, And afeerward I offered up, the use of weapons solemnly, At Winchester whereas I fought, in sight of many far and nigh. In Windsor Forrist I did slay, a Boar of passing might and strength, The like in England never was, for hugeness both in bredth and length, Some of his bones in Warwick yet, within the Castle there doth lye, One of his Thield bones to this day, hangs in the City of Coventry. On Dunsmore-heath I also slew a monstrous wild and cruel Beast, Call'd the Dun Cow of Dunsmore heath, which many people had opprest: Some of her bones in Warwick yet, still for a monument doth lye: Which unto every lookers view, as wondrous strange they may espy, Another Dragon in the Land, I also did in fight destroy, Which did both man and Beasts oppress,
and all the Country sore annoy, And then to Warwick came again, like Pilgrime poor & was not know[n], And there I liv'd a hermets life, a mile and more out of the town, Where with my hand I hew'd a hous[e] out of a craggy Rock of stone, And lived like a Palmer poor, within that Cave my self alone: And dayly came to beg my food, of Phillis at my Castle Gate. Not known unto my loving wife, who daily mourned for her mate, Till at the last I fell sore sick, yea sick so sore that I must dye, I sent to her a Ring of Gold, by which she knew me presantly: Then she repaired to the Cave, before that I gave up the Ghost, Her self clos'd up my Dying eyes, my Phillis fair whom I lov'd most. Thus dreadful Death did me arrest, to bring my Corps unto the grave And like a Palmer dyed I, whereby I thought my Soul to sa[ve] My body in Warwick yet doth lye, though now it be consum'd to mo[ld] My Stature was ingraven in stone this present day you may behold.
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Printed for J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger.