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 other wilis of werre wroght for our sake,
                                
                                  That may hast vs to harme, & hindur our spede [folio 87b] 
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                                  With all fare þat may forthir, & filsyn our seluyn.
                                
                                  Þai holdyn vs vnhardy hom for to negh,
                                
                                  Or with note for to noye now at þis tyme:
                                
                                  And ay the ferrer þat we fay our fare opon longe,
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                                  The more we procure our payne & our pure shame.
                                
                                  Þis I hope in my hert & holly beleue,
                                
                                  Hade we sailit all somyn to þe Cité euyn,
                                
                                  In our course as we came, & cast vs þerfore,
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                                  We shuld lightlier haue laght þe lond at our wille:
                                
                                  Or any we hade ben warre, wonen of ship
                                
                                  Withouten hurt other harme to haue in the dede,
                                
                                  Or any lede to be lost, or hor lyue tyne.
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                                  Now are the war of our werkes, wetyn vs at hond,
                                
                                  Vs will gayne mykell greme er we ground haue:
                                
                                  And ay the ser þat we sit our sore be þe harder.
                                
                                  Therfore, sothely me semys, yf ye so wille,
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                                  Þat we dresse to our dede when þe day sprynges;
                                
                                  All redy to rode, aray for our shippes,
                                
                                  Iche wegh in his wede, as hym well likes,
                                
                                  All boune vnto batell on his best wise.
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                                  Row forthe in a rape right to the banke,
                                
                                  Tit vnto Troy, tary no lengur;
                                
                                  And monly with might meve vnto londe,
                                
                                  The ground for to get, gaynis vs non other.
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                                  If the Troiens with tene turne for to fight,
                                
                                  We wynnyt not of water but with wight strokes;

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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 183
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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