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 fell vnto fight his feris to helpe.
                                
                                  Now batell on bent þo buernes betwene,
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                                  The grevans was gret þo grekes among;
                                
                                  Assemblit were sone þe same in þe fight,
                                
                                  And restorit full stithly þe stuff of þe grekes.
                                
                                  ffell was the fight & fuerse hom agaynes,
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                                  And mony deghit with dynt of þo derfe pepull:
                                
                                  Mony harmys þai hent er hor helpe come.
                                
                                  Þen Nestor anon neghit to lond,
                                
                                  With his shippis full shene, & sharpe men of armys, [folio 90a] 
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                                  Hard hastid to helpe with heturly wille,
                                
                                  And sodainly with his sort soght into batell!
                                
                                  Speiris into sprottes spronge ouer hede;
                                
                                  Arowes vp in the aire ysshit full þicke;
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                                  Swordis, with swapping, swaruyt on helmes;
                                
                                  The dede, vnder dynttes, dusshit to ground;
                                
                                  Cloudis with the clamour claterit aboue,
                                
                                  Of the dit & þe dyn, þat to dethe went!
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                                  Prothenor the prise kyng, & proud Archelaus,
                                
                                  Mony tolke of þe Troiens tyrnyt to dethe.
                                
                                  Þen Ascalus & Alacus auntrid to lond,
                                
                                  And aryuen full rad with þere rank shippes:
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                                  With þere pouer full prist past fro þe water,
                                
                                  Brusshet into batell, & myche bale wroght.
                                
                                  So felly in fere foghtyn þo two,
                                
                                  Obacke went the batell of þe burghe folke;
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                                  But þere were fele other fresshe, þat no fight touchit,
                                
                                  Þat gird into the grekes with a grym will,
                                
                                  And all backward hom bere to þe buerne side,
                                
                                  Þat fer from þe flode might no freke wyn.
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                                  Then Vlexes come vp vne with his folke,
                                
                                  Wan out of þe water & his weghis all,
                                
                                  And braid into batell with a brem wille.
                                
                                  Sharpe was the shoure the sheltrun [amonge]!

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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 188
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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