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.

                                
                                  Moche angre at the entré auntrid to falle,
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                                  To the Troiens with tene, er þai toun entred.
                                
                                  Myche slaghte in the slade, & slyngyng of horse! [folio 93b] 
                                
                                  Mony derfe þere deghit, was dole to beholde!
                                
                                  ffull myche was the murthe, & more hade þere bene,
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                                  Hade not Troilus the tene turnyt to fight,
                                
                                  And Paris the prise with pepull ynogh,
                                
                                  With Deffebus the derfe, of dedis full felle,
                                
                                  Þat fell to þe frusshe of þe fuerse grekes;
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                                  Issuet out egurly, angret full mony,
                                
                                  And so sesit the suet, soghtyn no ferre.
                                
                                  The night was so nigh, noye was the more,
                                
                                  The day was done, dymmet the skyes.
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                                  The Troiens full tite tyrnyt the ȝates,
                                
                                  Barret hom bigly with barres of yrne.
                                
                                  Achilles with his chiualers chefe to þe bonke,
                                
                                  All the grekes agayn Agamynon vnto.
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                                  The Emperoure hym owne selfe ordant onon,
                                
                                  fforto bilde vp tenttes, tariet no lengur.
                                
                                  Sithen hym selfe assignet the gret
                                
                                  Placis of pauylions, for the prise kynges
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                                  Grete tenttes to graide, as þaire degre askit;
                                
                                  Logges to las men, with leuys of wod.
                                
                                  Iche buerne, on his best wise, busket to lenge,
                                
                                  ffor the night was so neghe, noyet hom all.
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                                  Stablit vp hor stedis & hor stithe horses,
                                
                                  On suche maner as þai might, for the mene tyme;
                                
                                  And all necessaries for þe night, þat þai naite shuld,
                                
                                  ffecchit fro the flete, & ferkit to bonke.
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                                  Thaire shippis in sheltrons shotton to lond,
                                
                                  Knyt hom with cables & with kene ancres,
                                
                                  And bound hom full bigly on hor best wise.
                                
                                  As Agamynon the grete the gomys commaundyt,

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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 195
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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