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.

                                
                                  With sykyng & sorow said on this wise:—
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                                  "A! fonnet folke, why fare ye thus now,
                                
                                  With solas full sore, and sanges of myrthe,
                                
                                  At the weddyng of the weghes, þat shall to wo turne.
                                
                                  With hardlayke & harme, þat happyn shall after,
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                                  Ye dowtles mun degh for dedes of þo two;
                                
                                  And your fryndes full fey fallyn to ground,
                                
                                  Your sonys be slayne in sight of your ene;
                                
                                  Your husbandes hewen with hondys in pesis,
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                                  Wyues made wedowys, & wayling for euer.
                                
                                  A! Troy, þat is tore with toures full hegh, [folio 55a] 
                                
                                  Myche baret shall þou bide, & betyn to ground,
                                
                                  And be stithly destroyet, & þi strenght lost!
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                                  A! Modris so mylde, what myschefe is to you!
                                
                                  Moche care is to come to your cold hertys;
                                
                                  Moche baret on your birthe you bese for to se;—
                                
                                  Dyssmembrit as marters, & murtheret to dethe,
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                                  And the bowels out braide of hire bare sydes.
                                
                                  A! Ecuba, þat euermore easely hase leuyt,
                                
                                  What gretyng & gremþ growes vnto þe?
                                
                                  To se þi sones be slayne in sight of þin ene,
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                                  And the blode of þo blithe blent with the erthe!
                                
                                  A! balefull buernes, & full blynd pepull,
                                
                                  The hard dethe is you dight, þat ye doute litle!
                                
                                  Why wrought ye so wantonly in your wilde yre?
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                                  fforto rauysshe vnrightwisely þis riche out of Grece,
                                
                                  ffro a man þat neuer mys did to þis mene lond.
                                
                                  Why haste ye not heturly to haue hir agayne,
                                
                                  And restore hir stithly to hir strenght hom,
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                                  To hir lorde þat is lell & no lede harmys?
                                
                                  Venions and vile dethe to voide fro þis Rewme,
                                
                                  Er ye with swerdis in swym be swongon to ground.

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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 113
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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