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.

                                
                                  Semely for sothe, & of Syse faire.
                                
                                  Doughty of dedis, derfe of his hondes,
                                  Line 3816 
                                
                                  None wighter in werre, ne of wille bettur.
                                
                                  Neptolon nobill was non of þe lest:
                                
                                  A store man of stature, stabill of chere.
                                
                                  His here was hard blake, on his hede stode.
                                  Line 3820 
                                
                                  Grete Ene and gray, with a grym loke.
                                
                                  Rounde sydes for sothe, sober of wille;
                                
                                  His shulders were shapon of a clene brede.
                                
                                  Bytell browet was the buerne, þat aboue met;
                                  Line 3824 
                                
                                  And stutid full stithly, þat stynt hym to speke;
                                
                                  But he was lernyd of þe lawe, & in his londe wise;
                                
                                  ffor to comyn in a case hade a clere wit. [folio 60a] 
                                
                                  Palomydon the pure, he was prinse faire;
                                  Line 3828 
                                
                                  Naulus son þe nobill kyng, & his next childe.
                                
                                  Vne made of a mene in the medyll shap,
                                
                                  Large of a lenght, lyuely & small,
                                
                                  Noght borely ne brode, but as hym best semyt.
                                  Line 3832 
                                
                                  A stythe man of his stature, stirond of wille,
                                
                                  Menyt hym to mony thinges, & of mynde gode;
                                
                                  Nobill talker with tales, tretable alse,
                                
                                  Curtas & kynde, curious of honde.
                                  Line 3836 
                                
                                  Polidarius was pluccid as a porke fat,
                                
                                  ffull grete in the grippe, all of grese hoge.
                                
                                  So bolnet was his body, þat burthen hade ynoghe
                                
                                  The fete of þat freke to ferke hym aboute,
                                  Line 3840 
                                
                                  Or stond vppo streght for his strong charge.
                                
                                  Aparty was he proude, presit after seruys,
                                
                                  He wold not gladly be glad, ne glide into myrthe;
                                
                                  But euermore ymaginand & entrond in thoghtes.
                                  Line 3844 
                                
                                  Machaon the mody kyng was of a mene stature,
                                
                                  Noght to long ne to litle, lusty to se,
                                
                                  Proude & presumptius, prouyt of wille,
                                
                                  Ballit was the buerne with a brode face;
                                  Line 3848 
                                
                                  Neuer slept þat slegh for slouthe vppon day.

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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 124
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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