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.

                                
                                  All daintes to you dight, þat are dere holdyn,
                                
                                  Plaintiouse in yche place, as a prise qwene;
                                
                                  And all your ledys deliuert and lose out of bandys;
                                
                                  At your comaundement clene all your choise pepull;
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                                  And lyue in þis lond with lustes at ease,
                                
                                  Alse syker and sure als þai set were at home."
                                
                                  Þen onswared Elan easely agayne,
                                
                                  And driet the dropis of hir dregh teris:—
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                                  "I wot, sir, witterly, will I or noght,
                                
                                  Your wille I moste wirke, waite I non other;
                                
                                  Syn weikenes of wemen may not wele stryve,
                                
                                  Ne haue no might tawardes men maistries to fend:
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                                  And nomely in an unkythe lond nedys hom so.
                                
                                  And what daunger or dysese þat done is vs here,
                                
                                  Auther me or to myne at this myschefe,
                                
                                  Hit may happon you in haste haue suche another.
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                                  Thurgh giftes of our goddys, þat vs grace leuys,
                                
                                  We most suffer all hor senndes, & soberly take."
                                
                                  Than Parys with plesaunce apperit agayne:—
                                
                                  "Dere lady full leell! your lykyng to do,
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                                  And all your wille forto wirke, yche wegh shall."
                                
                                  Þen he hent hir by the hond hastely there,
                                
                                  And a littyll agayne lust lifte hir vp swithe;
                                
                                  Silet furth with þat semly & hir sute leuyt,
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                                  Into a place well appareld all with prise clothes,
                                
                                  And moche onestly ordainit for esmint of hir:
                                
                                  Þat þo souerains by hom selfe might say what hom liket,
                                
                                  Aither vnto other as onesty wolde.
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                                  Þen Parys to þat pure pertly can say:—
                                
                                  "Hope ye now, hynde Lady, þat your hegh goddis [folio 53a] 
                                
                                  Haue put you to þis prouynse pyne for to thole;

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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 108
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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