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.

                                
                                  And is fuerser of folke by a felle nowmber,
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                                  And lappis in hir loue, þat leue hir he nyll
                                
                                  But with strenght of strokys, or with store fight;
                                
                                  And we ledis to lyte þat lady to wyn,
                                
                                  Or any Cité to sese by a sawte now,
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                                  Þere pepull are so plaintiose, & placis of strenght.
                                
                                  And, sers, syn he so is be souerans of goddis,
                                
                                  Vs may falle here by fortune a fulfaire gifte,
                                
                                  Þat shuld lelly be laght, as me leue thinke.
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                                  Here is a tempull atyret all with triet godys,
                                
                                  And the grettist of Grise gedrit þerin,
                                
                                  As of wemen to wale, worthy & nobill,
                                
                                  And prise of þis prouynse are in yond proude yle.
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                                  The most of tho mighty is menelai wife,
                                
                                  Lady of þis lond, full louely to shew,
                                
                                  The grettist of grese and a gai qwhene.
                                
                                  Yf we take this full tite, & tary no lengur,
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                                  Bothe pepull & pilage, & put into ship,
                                
                                  Hit is a proffitable pray of persons me thinke,
                                
                                  And godis full grete of gold & of syluer;
                                
                                  ffor the tempull is atyret all with tryet clothes,
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                                  Bassons of bright gold, & oþer brode vessell,
                                
                                  Chaundelers full chefe, & charbokill stones,
                                
                                  And other Riches full Rife þat we may rad haue:
                                
                                  What fairer shuld vs falle and we fer soght. [folio 50b] 
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                                  Yf ye deme it to do be deuyse of you all,
                                
                                  Hit sittes, me semes, sone in the night
                                
                                  We arme vs at all peces, & aunter þere on
                                
                                  The temple to take and all the triet ladys.
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                                  Golde and oþer goodes gripe it by dene,
                                
                                  And shote into our shippes, shake on our way:
                                
                                  And Elan of all thing we aunter vs to take.
                                
                                  Yf we þat luffly may lacche & lede vnto troy,

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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 103
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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