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.

                                
                                  There wonderfully wroght his weghis to helpe;
                                
                                  Mony Troiens with tene tyrnyt to ground,
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                                  Thurgh swap of his sword swaltyn belyue!
                                
                                  Mony doughty were ded with dynt of his hond,
                                
                                  And myche fortherit his feris in hor fell angur!
                                
                                  Hade not the freike ben so fuerse with his fell dyntes,
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                                  All the grekes hade ben gird vnto grym dethe,
                                
                                  And all brittnet yche ben, þat were to banke comyn. [folio 89b] 
                                
                                  But what fortherit his fight, þof he fell were,
                                
                                  With seven thowsaund þro men þrongen to-gedur,
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                                  Þere a hundrith hole were on a hepe somyn
                                
                                  All triet men of Troy þat hom tene wroght?
                                
                                  Mony dynttes full dedly delt were anon!
                                
                                  The Grekes were gird doun, & on ground lay,
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                                  Mony swonyng, & swalt, & in swym felle.
                                
                                  The grekes were so greuyt, & to grem broght,
                                
                                  Þai wold fayn haue ben forthe, fled on hor way,
                                
                                  But no wise might þo weghis wyn into ship;
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                                  Ne to lepe fro þe lond into þe low se,
                                
                                  Hit was not holsom for hom, so hard was the stour!
                                
                                  Hom was leuer on þe lond leng at hor aunter,
                                
                                  And be brittnet in batell, þen burbull in the flod.
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                                  Þai fell fuersly to fight, þo few þat þere were,
                                
                                  And put all þere pouer, pynyt hom sore.
                                
                                  The Troiens dong hom doun in the depe slithe,
                                
                                  Mony lost hor lyues, & light in the water,
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                                  And were ded in the depe withouten dyn more.
                                
                                  The might was so mekyll of þo mayn Troiens,
                                
                                  Þai hade no strenght to withstond, ne hor stid holde,
                                
                                  But all borne were þai backe to þe buerne syde,
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                                  And hade deghit by-dene with dynttes of hond;
                                
                                  But Archelaus in armys auntrid to banke,

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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 187
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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