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.

                                
                                  Noght sothely þurgh my selfe, ne my sad dedis,
                                
                                  But þurghe ffrendship of þi fader, & his fre helpe.
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                                  Now son, I will say the, as my sad frynd,
                                
                                  Syn þi fader in fuerse with his fre will,
                                
                                  Rid me þis Rewme out of ronke Enmys,
                                
                                  And wan it full worthely with worship hym|seluyn,
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                                  Hade he lyuyt in lede, he hade ben lorde here,
                                
                                  Duly after my day, be domys of right.
                                
                                  And syn our goddis wold not graunt grace to be so,
                                
                                  This soile & the septur þi seluyn shall haue,
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                                  ffor to reigne in this rewme by right of þi fader:
                                
                                  Thus our goddes the graunttes of hor grace now.
                                
                                  Here qwemly I beqwethe þe to be qwem kyng
                                
                                  Of all my londes full large, & my lefe godis,
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                                  ffor to gouerne & to get, as ye good þinke:
                                
                                  Þis I take the be testament, as my trew aire.
                                
                                  And bryng me to berenes on þi best wise, [folio 83b] 
                                
                                  As be comys for a kyng in his kyde rewme;
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                                  And honour me with obit as ogh myn astate."
                                
                                  He wrote thus his wille, & wightly asselit,
                                
                                  And deght þen full dawlily, as destyny wold.
                                
                                  And Thelaphus a toumbe trietly gart make,
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                                  A riche & a riall, with mony ronke stonys.
                                
                                  On a worshipfull wise warpit hym þerin,
                                
                                  With all the princes of þe prouyns, & other prowde folke,
                                
                                  And sacrifices full solemne, soche as þai vsit.
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                                  He puruait a proude stone of a prise hoge,
                                
                                  His course for to couer clenly aboue.
                                
                                  Þus the wegh gert write vmbe the wale sides,
                                
                                  With letturs full large, ledis to be-holde:—
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                                  "Teutra, the true kyng, here in tombe lis,
                                
                                  Þat Achilles, with a chop, chaunsit to sle;
                                
                                  Þat to thelaphon betakis all his triet Rewme,

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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 174
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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