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 his folke þat were fallyn vnto fell dethe,
                                
                                  Hard highet vnto horse with a hert þro,
                                
                                  fforto felle of þe ffrigies felly he þoght.
                                
                                  Onon with a naked sword neghit to batell,
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                                  Vne wode of his wit as a wild lyon,
                                
                                  Mony breme on þe bent brittoned to ground. [folio 91b] 
                                
                                  Mony kild the kyng in his clene yre!
                                
                                  Myche tene þe Troiens tid of his hond!
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                                  Then Perses the proude kyng prise mon of ynde,
                                
                                  With a batell of bowmen fro the burgh come,
                                
                                  And with a fernet fare fell to þe stoure.
                                
                                  At whose come the cuntre-men comford were all,
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                                  And restoret the stithe fight stuernly agayn;
                                
                                  As fresshe to þere fos as at the first tyme,
                                
                                  Gird to the Grekes, & moche grem wroght;
                                
                                  Woundit hom wikkedly, walt hom to ground,
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                                  Oppresset hom with pyne, put hom abake,
                                
                                  All the batell to þe bonke, & mony buerne slogh.
                                
                                  Þere the grekes hade ben grymly gird vnto dethe,
                                
                                  Ne hade Palomedon, the prise kyng, preset to lond,
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                                  With fele fightyng folke of fuerse men of armys;
                                
                                  Halet vp horses hard out of bote,
                                
                                  Wonyn on wightly, wentyn to batell,
                                
                                  His folke to refresshe with a fyn wille.
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                                  The assembly was sorer o þe se banke;
                                
                                  Mony deghit full dernly, dole to be-holde!
                                
                                  Then the grekes agayne geton þere hertes,
                                
                                  And myche comford kaght of his come þen.
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                                  This Palomydon paynyt hym pepull to slee,
                                
                                  And mony woundys he wroght in his wild yre.
                                
                                  He soght to on Symagon, a sad mon of armys,—
                                
                                  Kyng Merion þe mighty was his met brother,
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                                  Þat fele had confoundit of the fuerse grekes;—
                                
                                  He bere to þe bold with a big sworde,
                                
                                  And rof þurgh the Ribbes right to þe hert,

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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 191
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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