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.

                                
                                  With his shippes in a sheltrun, & skalkes within;
                                
                                  Gird vp to þe ground with a grym fare,
                                
                                  With þre thowsaund þro men þristé in armys;
                                
                                  ffell to þe fight on a fuerse wise.
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                                  Myche tene the Troiens tid of his hond!
                                
                                  The grekes keuriyt for comford by comyng of hym.
                                
                                  ffell was the fight þo frekes betwene!
                                
                                  Mony gird to þe ground, and to grym dethe;
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                                  Mony lede out of lyue light on the erthe!
                                
                                  The stoure was so stithe þo strong men among,
                                
                                  That full mekull was the murthe, & mony were ded.
                                
                                  The Troiens full tyte were tyrnit to ground:
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                                  Thurghe Achilles chiualry hom cheuyt the worse.
                                
                                  Mony fell þat freike with his fuerse dynttes!
                                
                                  Myche blode on the bent, bale for to se;
                                
                                  Of myrthe & of murnyng thurgh might of hym one.
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                                  Then the last of þo lefe shippis launchit to bonke,
                                
                                  And all the fighting folke fell to þe lond;
                                
                                  Gyrdyn in grymly into grete batell.
                                
                                  The multitude was so mykyll at þe mene tyme,
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                                  Of the grekes vppon ground, & of grym folke,
                                
                                  The Troiens for tene tyrnyt the backe,
                                
                                  ffleddon in fere, & the filde leuyt;
                                
                                  All somyn to the Cité soghten by-dene,
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                                  With myche clamur & crie for care of hor dethe.
                                
                                  Mony warchond wound, and weré at all,
                                
                                  Mony chivalrous Achilles choppit to dethe:
                                
                                  All his wedis were wete of þaire wan blode!
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                                  As þai flaghe in the filde, þe freke with his hond,
                                
                                  So he gird hom to ground with a grym sword,
                                
                                  To þe Cité forsothe, cessit þai noght.

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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 194
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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