The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy: an alliterative romance tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria troiana." Now first ed. from the unique ms. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by ... Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson, esq.

                                
                                  Stithe shippes & stoure stuffet with vitell,
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                                  All full vpon flote with fyne pepull in.
                                
                                  The kyng comaund to come, & cald hym anon,
                                
                                  Antenor alstite, and Aunteros Eneas,
                                
                                  And Polidamos prist,—a full pert knight,
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                                  Antenor Aune son, aldist of yeris;
                                
                                  Bade hom buske & be boun & no bode make,
                                
                                  To pas furthe with parys & hor prise knightes,
                                
                                  Bowne on hor best wise in hor bright wedis.
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                                  And þai grauntid the grete with a glad chere,
                                
                                  And shope hom to ship in a sharpe haste.
                                
                                  All the pepull to appere Pryam comaundit,
                                
                                  That were purpast to pas on the pale stremys,
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                                  And wightly thies wordes warpit hom to,
                                
                                  With a Sembland full sad, er he ses wold:—
                                
                                  "Hit nedys not now our noyes to telle,
                                
                                  Ne mony wordes to warpe, for it is well knowen.
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                                  All wete ye my wille why ye wend shall,
                                
                                  The Grekes for to grefe, if your grace happe,
                                
                                  And harme with your hond, þat our hede slogh;
                                
                                  To venge of our velany, & our vile grem
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                                  And hardlaike we hade of hom in þis londe:
                                
                                  And most is my mynde, & I might haue,
                                
                                  My Sister Exiona fro seruage to brynge.
                                
                                  That shalbe choisly your charge: chefe & ye may
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                                  With all your mightes to mene, & most to pursew
                                
                                  On hom þat hir holdis, & vs harme dyd. [folio 44b] 
                                
                                  Wetys hit all wele: with outen any cause
                                
                                  Þat þe dayens you derit, & to drede broght;
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                                  And for Redur & ranke harme of vnright dedis,
                                
                                  We may tyre vs with truthe to tene hom agayne,
                                
                                  And wreke vs of wrathe & wranges before.
                                
                                  I bid you now barly with besines at all,
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                                  Þat ye set you most souerainly my suster to gete.
                                
                                  Now is tyme most tore to tente þere aboute,

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Title: The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy: an alliterative romance tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria troiana." Now first ed. from the unique ms. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by ... Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson, esq.
Author: Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.
Canvas: Page 91
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,; 1869-1874.
Subject terms: Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends

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