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.

                                
                                  He offert onestly in honour of Venus,
                                
                                  A gobet of gold, þat gyngys might se;
                                
                                  And sylid for-sothe on the same wise,
                                
                                  ffor solempnite of sacrifice in sight of þe pepull.
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                                  Paris was pure faire, & plesaund in sight,
                                
                                  A store man & a stoute, full stithe hym be semyt;
                                
                                  ffairest be ferre of his fre buernes,
                                
                                  Wemen waited hym well, hade wondur of hym one,
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                                  That of shap for to shew was shene to beholde,
                                
                                  And clad as a kyng in clothys full fyne.
                                
                                  He was louyt with ladys, lappit in hert.
                                
                                  As course is of kynd & comyn dessire,
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                                  Ich on fraynet at his fere þe frekys to know,
                                
                                  Of what lond were þo louely hit list hom to wete,
                                
                                  And prinsipall of Parys the pepull dessiret,
                                
                                  Of þat comly to Ken, & his cause here.
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                                  And o sithen it was said, & for sothe tolde,
                                
                                  That Parys was Pryam son, þat prinse is of Troy,
                                
                                  By comaundement of his kyng comyn into Grese,
                                
                                  With a company clene his cosyn to gete.
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                                  Exiona sothely he soght for to haue,
                                
                                  That Telamon hade takon & with tene held,
                                
                                  And set vnder seruage þat hom sore greuyt.
                                
                                  This speche furth sprede & sprange vppo ferre,
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                                  Ouer all into yles, so aunter befelle,
                                
                                  Into the Eres of Elan hit entrid belyue.
                                
                                  The prishede of parys was praisit so mekyll,
                                
                                  With ferly of his fairnes, & his fre buernes,
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                                  Sho was lappit in longyng þat louely to se,
                                
                                  And to wete of þat worthy with wilfull desyre. [folio 46b] 
                                
                                  As wemen are wount in Wantonhede yet,
                                
                                  With a likyng full light in loue for to falle,
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                                  That hetys into hertys and hurtes sone after;
                                
                                  So longid this lady with lust to the Temple,
                                
                                  With Sacrafice solempne to seche vnto Venus.

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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 95
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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