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.

                                
                                  Parys stode in a stody & streght on hir lokit,
                                
                                  ffaste by þat fre fresshe of araye;
                                
                                  Beheld hir full hertely, hade no rewarde
                                
                                  To prayer, ne pepull, ne prayer within.
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                                  So he hedit þat hynde, & ho hym agayne
                                
                                  With a lokyng on lenght in hor loue ene,
                                
                                  Þat Paris ho pryset in hir pure mynde,
                                
                                  Of feturs & fourme fairer by myche,
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                                  Þan he vppon hir hertely couthe fynde:
                                
                                  And thus ho thought full thrange in hir thro hert,
                                
                                  Þat so semely a sight ho se neuer before,
                                
                                  Ne so comly a creature to hir clene wit,
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                                  Ne no lede to hir lykyng halfe so luff-able.
                                
                                  Ho tentit not in Tempull to no tall prayers,
                                
                                  Ne no melody of mouthe made at þe tyme,
                                
                                  Ne speche of no spiritualtie, with speciall ne other;
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                                  But ay staryt O þat stoute with hire stepe Ene.
                                
                                  There most was hir mynd in þat mene qwhile;
                                
                                  And Parys perceyuit the print of hir sight,
                                
                                  And lokit on þat louely with a light chere,
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                                  Till aither sight was sadly set vppon other.
                                
                                  So be lokyng of lenght with a loue chere,
                                
                                  Ayther kyndly by course knew oþer wille.
                                
                                  Then Parys pertly proffert a seigne,
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                                  ffor to telle his entent yf ho tome hade;
                                
                                  And ho onswaret þat Abill after agayne, [folio 49b] 
                                
                                  By seignes on the same wise soburly to come;
                                
                                  And beckonet hym boldly, when bourdys were thicke,
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                                  And pepull in play, his place to Remeve.
                                
                                  Parys listinet lyuely, let for no shame,
                                
                                  But drogh to þat dere & dressit to sitte,
                                
                                  And softly by him selfe said what him liket. [MS. has 'hom'] 
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                                  While oþer tentid in the temple tomly to playes,

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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 101
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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