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.

                                
                                  Priam, our prise kyng, may prestly suppose
                                
                                  His suster to sese, sent by eschaunge,
                                
                                  And his couetyng to cacche because of þat bright.
                                
                                  Lokys now lyuely! what list you to do?
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                                  To melle in þis mater, or to meue ferre?
                                
                                  And assai if we suffise our seluyn of might,
                                
                                  Yf we put vs to pillage, er we pyne þole."
                                
                                  At þe last, when the lede hade left of his speche,
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                                  ffele of þe folke febull it thughten;
                                
                                  But yche lede by the last aliet þerto,
                                
                                  And assentid to his saw, & suet his rede.
                                
                                  When counsell was kaght of knightes & oþer,
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                                  And all things examynt, so aunter befell,
                                
                                  The neght drow negh anon vppon þis,
                                
                                  And the mone in the merke myghtely shone,
                                
                                  As come it by course, & cast a gret light.
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                                  Þai armyt hom at all peces abill to werre;
                                
                                  To the tempull full tite token þere gate,
                                
                                  Prayen & piken all the pure godes;
                                
                                  Affrayet the folke fuersly by dene,
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                                  Sesit & slogh, slongen to ground;
                                
                                  Grippit the godys and the gay ladys,
                                
                                  And all the company clene closit hom within.
                                
                                  Parys þen presit to þe proude qwene,
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                                  And sesit hir sone, as hir assent was;
                                
                                  Led hir furth lyuely, lefte hir in shippe [folio 51a] 
                                
                                  Vnder sight of sure men set hir to kepe:
                                
                                  And to the tempull full tyte turnyt agayne,
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                                  To rob of þe Riches, and Renkes to helpe.
                                
                                  Clamour & crie was Comyns amonge,
                                
                                  Hoge noise for þe nonest in night for to here;
                                
                                  Lelly of the ladies, þat leuer were degh
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                                  Þan be led out of lande, lowde was þe noise.
                                
                                  The noise vpponone neghit to þe Eris [MS. has 'uppon none'] 
                                
                                  Of Soudiours besyde in a sure castell,

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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 104
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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