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.

                                    
                                      Hope ye Parys, playn þefte vnponysshet wilbe,
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                                      Withouten sorow & sourgrem sewyng þerafter;
                                    
                                      And you angur for euer en[d]les to worche?
                                    
                                      A! Elan, vnhappy, hardist of chaunse!
                                    
                                      Soche sorow & sikyng þi seluyn vs bringes;
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                                      Myschaunse & euyll chefe þi childur shalbe!
                                    
                                      A! Sory Sytizins, sendis you fro
                                    
                                      The smoke & smorther, þat smytes to dethe,
                                    
                                      Qwyle ye lawfully lefe may & your lyf haue;
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                                      Þoche dole ho dregh with mony depe terys!"
                                    
                                      With pyté & complaint, þat pyne was to here,
                                    
                                      Þat Priam out of pes put ay anone,
                                    
                                      And neuer sesit of saghis & sorowfull wordys.
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                                      The kyng þen comaund to cacche hir belyue,
                                    
                                      And fetur hir fast in a fre prisoune,— [folio 55b] 
                                    
                                      A stithe house of stone,—to still hir of noise.
                                    
                                      Hit said was for sothe, ho sate þere full longe,
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                                      And suffert moche sorow for hir sothe tales.
                                    
                                      Þus kept the kyng vnkyndly his doughter;—
                                    
                                      ffor hir tales of truthe teghit her in yernes.
                                    
                                      But, hade þai herkont þat hynde, & in hert keppit,
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                                      Troy hade bene truly out of tene yet;
                                    
                                      And þere fortune full felle faire ouer-paste,
                                    
                                      Þat all the world hade warnyng of þere wo sythen;
                                    
                                      And euer mynde wulbe made of þaire myshap,
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                                      Enduryng till domysday for doole þat þere was.
                                    
                                      Now, what felle of hor foly faire will I tell;
                                    
                                      And ye hastely shall here, and ye houe stille.

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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 114
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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