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.

                                
                                  All in point for to pas with paynes of dethe.
                                  Line 5308 
                                
                                  Then Teutra þo triet men tretid o þis wise:—
                                
                                  "Ye worshipfull weghes, well be you euer,
                                
                                  And gode hele mot ye haue with hop of your lyues!
                                
                                  I say you now sothely, as my sad fryndes,
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                                  My lif is not long lastand in erthe.
                                
                                  Done are my dayes, I draw to an end;
                                
                                  And non eire of myn own neuer yet I hade,
                                
                                  Þat I my londes might leue, lyuely to kepe,
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                                  That I getton haue & gate with moche gret trauell, [folio 83a] 
                                
                                  And holdyn of hard, & with my hond werit
                                
                                  Vnto now, þat with noy is myn end comyn.
                                
                                  The whiche lond I hade lost long tymes past,
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                                  Hade not helpe ben of hym, was hardiest of othir,
                                
                                  Most doughty of dedis, dreghist in armys,
                                
                                  And the strongest in stoure, þat euer on stede rode,—
                                
                                  Ercules, þat honerable, edist of my knightes.
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                                  He was þi fader so fuerse, þat me faithe eght,
                                
                                  Þat preset at my prayer to this pure rewme,
                                
                                  In hast me to helpe with his hede strenght,
                                
                                  When my fos were so fell, & fuerse me agayn,
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                                  Þat þai occupiet ouer all, euyn as hom list,
                                
                                  And I vncertayn, for-sothe, to sese it on lyue.
                                
                                  But he sothely, hym-selfe, of his sad strenght,
                                
                                  Thurgh hardynes of hond & helpe of hym one,
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                                  All my fos in fight felly distroyit;
                                
                                  Breke all þere batells, britned hom to dethe,
                                
                                  And so rid he this rewme of my ranke fos,
                                
                                  Euer sythen, for sothe, to þis same tyme,
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                                  And deliuert me þis lond, & left it in pes.
                                
                                  Thus the septur & the soile sithyn haue I ȝemyt,

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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 173
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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