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.

                                    
                                      Brode firis & brem beccyn in þe ost,
                                    
                                      Torchis and tendlis the tenttes to light,
                                    
                                      That yche freike in the fild his felow might know, [folio 94a] 
                                    
                                      Alse light on to loke, as þe leue day.
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                                      Other feris opon fer the freikes withoute,
                                    
                                      With skowte wacche for skathe & skeltyng of harme.
                                    
                                      The Troiens with tene, þat in the towne were,
                                    
                                      Neghit hom not negh, ne no noy did,
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                                      But closit the clene yates, keppit hom within.
                                    
                                      This Agamynon, the grete, gaynit no slepe.
                                    
                                      Bisé was the buerne all the bare night,
                                    
                                      To ordan for his Enmyes, as I er saide,
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                                      ffolke opon fer, the firis withoute,
                                    
                                      ffor to wacche and to wake for wothis of harme,
                                    
                                      With qwistlis, & qwes, & other qwaint gere,
                                    
                                      Melody of mowthe myrthe for to here;
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                                      And men of armys full mony made for to stond,
                                    
                                      In soppes on sere halfe the sercle to kepe;
                                    
                                      The ost out of angur & auntur to were,
                                    
                                      Wacche wordes to wale, þat weghis might know;
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                                      Sore men & seke soundly to rest,
                                    
                                      Þat were feblet in fight, & hade fele woundes,
                                    
                                      To lie in hor lodges a littell at ese.
                                    
                                      Armet were all men for auntur to come,
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                                      Till the derke was don, & the day sprange,
                                    
                                      And the sun in his sercle set vppo lofte.
                                    
                                      This fight was the first þo felons betwene,
                                    
                                      Syn thay light on the lond:—lord giffe vs ioye!

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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 196
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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