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.

                                
                                  Euyll masit of the mynt, & the mayn stroke,
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                                  Thes wordys to the whe warpit the prinse:—
                                
                                  "Achilles, Achilles, þou cheses þe fast,
                                
                                  ffor to prese me with pyne in thy proud yre!
                                
                                  The next tym þou noyes me, þou neghis to þe fer,
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                                  Thow dowtles shall dye with dynt of my hond."
                                
                                  But or hit auntrid hym to aunsware Ector agayne,
                                
                                  Come Troilus full tyte with a tore pepull,
                                
                                  ffrushet in felly þo frekes betwene,
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                                  Depertid the prinse & the prise kyng.
                                
                                  So he greuit the Grekes, and gird hom abacke,
                                
                                  Þat fyue houndrith were fay & in fild leuyt,
                                
                                  Off knightes full kene, kild in the stoure; [folio 128b] 
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                                  And o backe fro the burghe bere hom anon.
                                
                                  Menelay with his men meuyt in swithe,
                                
                                  Thre thousaund full þro þrang into batell;
                                
                                  Restorit hom stithly, stuffit hom anon,
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                                  And cobbyt full kantly, kaghten the fild.
                                
                                  Then Sedymon with a sowme from the Cité come,
                                
                                  Of fell men in fight, freikes of his owne:
                                
                                  He macchit hym to Menelay, & met on þe kyng,
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                                  Woundit hym wickedly in his wale face,
                                
                                  And gird hym to ground of his grete horse.
                                
                                  Than Troiell hym toke þurgh his tried helpe
                                
                                  Of Sedymon, the same kyng þat þe syre felle,
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                                  Wold haue led the lord o-lyue to þe towne;
                                
                                  But the stoure was so stithe, & stedis so thicke,
                                
                                  Thai pullid hym with pyne, but passid þai noght.
                                
                                  Then Diamede full dernly, with a dyn hoge,
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                                  On Troiell with tene tachet belyue;
                                
                                  Bere hym backe to the bent of his big stede,
                                
                                  Raght to the Reynes in a rad hast,
                                
                                  Sent hym by a seruaund, or he ses wold,
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                                  To Breisaide the bright, & bad hym to say,
                                
                                  That þat was lelly a ledis, þat ho louet well,—

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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 269
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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