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.

                                
                                  The ton fro þe tother was tore for to ken
                                
                                  In sight at þat sodan, somyn & þai were.
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                                  The fourme of þo freikes was, faithfully to se,
                                
                                  Right suche as the syre, þat I said first;
                                
                                  Vndifferent to deme fro þere dere fader,
                                
                                  Saue Priam the prise was past into eld,
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                                  And þai of yeris full yong, ȝeuerus of wille.
                                
                                  The ton was a triet knight, tristy in armys,
                                
                                  A wight man for to wale, & wise of his dedis;
                                
                                  The tother, sotele of syense to seke in a lond,
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                                  And a corius clerke with a clene wit.
                                
                                  Troilus þe tru was full tore mekull,
                                
                                  ffull massely made, & of mayn strenght;
                                
                                  And yet hoger of hert & of her wille,
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                                  He demenyt well his maners, & be mesure wroght.
                                
                                  Amirous vnto Maidens, & mony hym louyt, [folio 61b] 
                                
                                  And delited hym in dole with damsels ofte;
                                
                                  But he mesuret his maners, þof he þe myrth vsid,
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                                  Þat it impairyt not his person, ne his purpos lettid.
                                
                                  In strenght ne in stryfe þere strokes were delte,
                                
                                  He was Ector eftsones, or ellis soche another.
                                
                                  In all the kyngdome & cuntre, þat to þe coron longit,
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                                  Was no yong man so ȝepe, ne ȝenerus of dedis,
                                
                                  Ne so hardy of hond holdyn in his tyme.
                                
                                  Eneas was euermore eger of wille,
                                
                                  Brode in his brest, & of body litill.
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                                  Wise in his werkes, & of wordys sober,
                                
                                  A faire speiker in a spede, speciall of wit,
                                
                                  A clene man of counsell, with a cloise hert,
                                
                                  Of litterure & langage lurnyt ynoghe.
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                                  A man full of mekenes & mery of his chere.
                                
                                  ffaire Ene hade þe freike, & of fyn colour,
                                
                                  Glemyt as þe glasse and gliet a little.
                                
                                  Of all the tulkes of Troy, to telle þem by name,

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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 127
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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