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.

                                
                                  And the nowmber so noyous, þat neghed in hast,
                                
                                  That the ffrigies floghen and the fild leuyt;
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                                  Turnyt vnto Troy, and the toune entrid.
                                
                                  And þo at fore not to flight, ne of forse were,
                                
                                  The grekes gird hom to grounde with hor grym swerdes,
                                
                                  And brittenit on the bent, þat abide wold.
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                                  Comyn to the castell, vnclosit it aboute,
                                
                                  ffoghten with the folke, þat defens made.
                                
                                  Shottyn vp sharply at the shene wallis
                                
                                  With glayues; & gomes girdyn doun toures;
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                                  Dryuen vp dartes, gyffen depe woundes.
                                
                                  With alblasteris also amyt full streght,
                                
                                  Whappet in wharles, whellit the pepull.
                                
                                  With speris full dispitiously spurnit at the yates,
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                                  Dongen on dernly with mony dede hurtes,
                                
                                  In diffens of þe folke, þat affroi made.
                                
                                  But the wallis the[y] were for all the wo yet,
                                
                                  And fele of hor fos fellyn with out.
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                                  Þen gone forthe the grekes, graithet engynes,
                                
                                  Batold hom all abrode vmbe the bare walles;
                                
                                  Layn ladders alenght & oloft wonnen.
                                
                                  At yche cornell of þe castell was crusshyng of weppon;
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                                  ffell was the feght þo fuerse men amonge;
                                
                                  Mony grekes in þere gremþ gird on the hed,
                                
                                  Till þai lept of the ladder, light in the dyke,
                                
                                  The brayne out brast & the brethe leuyt;
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                                  And mony dongen to dethe with dynttes of honde.
                                
                                  The Troiens full tit were tirghit for fight,
                                
                                  Wondit & weré þat þai were noght;
                                
                                  And the grekes in so grete nowmber gedrit hom till,
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                                  Wonyn on the wallis wightly with ladders,
                                
                                  At wyndous on yche syde-wise a wondurfull nombur,

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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 154
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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