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.

                                
                                  Of Arowes & Awblasters þe aire wex thicke,
                                
                                  And dynnyt with dyntes, þat delte were þat tyme.
                                  Line 5708 
                                
                                  The rynels wex red of the ronke blode,
                                
                                  Þat were slayne in the slicche, & in slym lightyn.
                                
                                  There sothely was sene what sorow & pyne,
                                
                                  And how balfull & bittur the banke was to wyn. [folio 89a] 
                                  Line 5712 
                                
                                  How the grekes were gird vnto grym dethe,
                                
                                  Neuer red was in Romanse with no renke yet,
                                
                                  That any weghes in the world, þat to werre yode,
                                
                                  With soche baret, fro þe bote vnto bank wan,
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                                  As hit happit here with so hard fight.
                                
                                  But the secund sort sothely, þat sewet hom aftur,
                                
                                  Were graither of gouernaunce, grippet hor sailes,
                                
                                  And light vnto lond lyuely and sound.
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                                  More wisely þai wroght þurgh warnyng before.
                                
                                  Þai preset vp proudly with panys in hond,
                                
                                  In refut of hor felowes, þat were foule mart;
                                
                                  And the Troiens tyt turnyt hom agayne,
                                  Line 5724 
                                
                                  ffor-bode hom the banke with mony bale dintes.
                                
                                  Þai braid to þere bowes, bold men in hast,
                                
                                  With alblastis also atlet to shote,
                                
                                  With big bowes of brake bykrit full hard,
                                  Line 5728 
                                
                                  Lacchet on þe ledis, þat on lofte stode,
                                
                                  Hurt hom full hidiously, hurlet hom abake.
                                
                                  There were ded of þo dyntes, mony derfe knightes.
                                
                                  The shalkes for þe shot shont fro þe banke,
                                  Line 5732 
                                
                                  And the grekes vp gird in a gret nowmber,
                                
                                  ffell fuersly to fight, & hor felowes halpe,
                                
                                  Þo þat left vpon lyue, þof þai lyte were.
                                
                                  Þen gird þai to-gedur with a grym fare!
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                                  ffull fell was the fight with þo fuerse troiens.
                                
                                  Prothesselon, þe prise kyng, preuyt his strenght,

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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 186
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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