_Guy, having performed great Wonders abroad, returns to England,
and is married to Felice._
Guy now set forth in search of further adventures, and performed many
acts of valour. Once after a tedious journey, being seated by a spring
to refresh himself, he heard a hideous noise, and presently espied a
Lion and a Dragon, fighting, biting, and tearing each other. At length
Guy, perceiving the Lion ready to faint, encountered the Dragon, and
soon brought the ugly Cerberus roaring and yelling to the ground. The
Lion, in gratitude to Guy, run by his horse's side like a true born
spaniel, till lack of food made him retire to his wonted abode.
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Soon after Guy met with the Earl of Terry, whose father was confined in
his Castle by Duke Otto; but he and that Lord posted thither, and freed
the Castle immediately; and Guy in an open field slew Duke Otto, whose
dying words of repentance moved Guy to remorse and pity.
After this, as Guy returned through a desert, he met a furious boar that
had slain many Christians. Guy manfully drew his sword, and the boar
gaping, intending with his dreadful tusks to devour our noble champion,
Guy thrust it down his throat, and slew the greatest boar that ever man
beheld.
On Guy's arrival in England, he immediately repaired to King Athelston
at York, where the King told Guy of a mighty Dragon in Northumberland,
that destroyed men, women, and children. Guy desired a guide, and went
immediately to the Dragon's cave; when out came the monster, with eyes
like flaming fire. Guy charged him, courageously; but the Monster bit
the lance in two like a reed; then Guy drew his sword, and cut such
gashes in the Dragon's sides, that the blood and life poured out of his
venomous carcase. Then Guy cut off the head of the monster, and
presented it to the King, who in the memory of Guy's service, caused the
picture of the Dragon, which was thirty feet in length, to be worked in
a cloth of arras, and hung up in Warwick Castle for an everlasting
monument. Felice, hearing of Guy's return and success, came as far as
Lincoln to meet him, where they were married with much joy and great
triumph; King Athelstan, his Queen, and all the chief Nobles and Barons
of the land being present.
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No sooner were their nuptials celebrated, but Felice's father died,
leaving all his estate to Sir Guy, whom the King thereupon created Earl
of Warwick.