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.

                                
                                  Slit hym down sleghly thurghe the slote euyn,
                                
                                  Bode at the belt stid, and the buerne deghit.
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                                  Then leuet he the lede, launchet on ferre,
                                
                                  Mony dange to the dede with dynt of his hond:
                                
                                  Who happit hym to hitte harmyt nomo.
                                
                                  Mony brem in the batell britnet to dethe,
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                                  Sundrit the soppis vnsarkonly with hondes:
                                
                                  All gird of his gate, gevyn hym the way.
                                
                                  Iche freike of þat furse fraynit at other,
                                
                                  Þat our folke þus felly flynges to ground:
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                                  Þen þai knowen by course of his clene shap,
                                
                                  Þat it was Ector the honerable, eddist of knightes.
                                
                                  Thai fled fro the fase of his felle dynttes,
                                
                                  So bold was no buerne his bir to withstond,
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                                  Ne þe caupe of his kene sword kast hom to mete.
                                
                                  Whill he bode in the batell, þe buerne with his honde
                                
                                  Mony grekes with grem he gird to the dethe.
                                
                                  All failit þere forse, feblit þere herttes,
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                                  The batell on backe was borne to þe se.
                                
                                  Then wery he wex, & of his werke hote,
                                
                                  Bowet fro the batell, & his buernes leuyt.
                                
                                  The sun in his sercle set vndurnethe;
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                                  The light wex las, he leuyt the fild,
                                
                                  Soght to þe Cité soberly & faire,
                                
                                  Left his feris in þe fild fightyng full hard.
                                
                                  Then grekes agayne getton þere herttes,
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                                  ffrushet þe ffrigies felly to ground;
                                
                                  So hit tid hom tensiche betymys þat day.
                                
                                  But þe Troiens full tore turnyt agayne,
                                
                                  ffoghten so felly, frunt hom o backe,
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                                  Kyld mony knightes, cacchit on hard,
                                
                                  Greuyt so the grekes, þai graithet to fle,
                                
                                  Were borne to þe banke with baret ynogh.
                                
                                  Then Achilles the choise cheuyt to land, [folio 93a] 
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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 193
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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