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.

                                
                                  With thre thowsaund þro men, þriuound in armys.
                                
                                  Pendragon the pert, pristly was on,
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                                  And Thabor, þat tother, a tor man of strenght;
                                
                                  Adasthon the doghte, þat derfe was the þrid.
                                
                                  And of a cuntre, was cald Colophon to nome,
                                
                                  Þat faire was & full all of fre townes,
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                                  ffoure kynges þere come with a cant pepull,
                                
                                  With ffyve thowsaund full, all of fyn knightes.
                                
                                  To acounte of þe kynges,—Caras was on,
                                
                                  And Nestor, another, to neuyn of þo same;
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                                  The thrid Ymasus, yrfull, egor of wille,
                                
                                  And Amphymacus, þe fourt, a felle mon in werre.
                                
                                  Out of Licé come lyuelé þe lege kyng Glaucon,
                                
                                  With his son Serpidon, a sad mon of strenght,
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                                  Þat to Priam was pure sib, a prise mon of dedes,
                                
                                  And þre thousaund thro knightes þrifty in armys.
                                
                                  Out of Lachan, a lond, come a light kyng,
                                
                                  Euphymus the fuerse, fell of his hondes,
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                                  And Capidus þe kene,—kynges were bothe
                                
                                  With a thousaund þro men þrifte in armys, [folio 85a] 
                                
                                  And fyue hundrith ferre all of fyn knightes.
                                
                                  There come of a cuntre, cald was Tebaria,
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                                  On Baunus, a bold kyng, and broght with hym|seluyn
                                
                                  Þre thousaund þro knightes, þriuound in werre:
                                
                                  And seven Erles, sothely, in his sort were,
                                
                                  And foure Dukes dughty, & of dede nobill,
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                                  Þat to Priam the prise kyng all were pure syb.
                                
                                  All hor colouris to ken were of clene yalow,
                                
                                  Withouten more in the mene, or mellit with other,
                                
                                  To be knowen by course thurghe the clene ost,
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                                  As bold men in batell, and of breme will.

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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 177
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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