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 mony worshipfull wemen to wale in þe towne,
                                
                                  The here of þere heddes hynging on brede,
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                                  On backe & on brest bare for to shew;
                                
                                  With remyng, & rauthe, & myche rife sorow,
                                
                                  Sobbyng & sourcher soght fro þere herttes.
                                
                                  Polexena the pert pairet of hir hew,
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                                  All facid hir face with hir fell teris,
                                
                                  Þat was red as the Roses, richest of coloure,
                                
                                  Hit was of hew to behold with hend men aboute.
                                
                                  The teris þat trickilt on her tryet chekes,
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                                  As pure watur pouret vn polishet yerin,
                                
                                  Þat blaknet with bleryng all hir ble qwite.
                                
                                  The faire heris of þat fre flammet of gold,
                                
                                  All abouen on hir brest & hir bright swire,
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                                  Þat sho halit with hond, hade it in sonder,
                                
                                  And puld hit with pyn, pité to be-hold.
                                
                                  When the hond of þat hend to þe hede yode,
                                
                                  Hit semyt by sight of sitters aboute,
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                                  As the moron mylde meltid aboue,
                                
                                  When ho hasted with hond þe hore for to touche.
                                
                                  When Achilles the choise maidon with chere can behold,
                                
                                  He hade ferly of hir fairhede, & fell into thoght.
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                                  To hym-seluyn he said in his saule þen,
                                
                                  Þat neuer wegh in this world of woman kynd,
                                
                                  Hade fairnes so fele, ne so fyne shap,
                                
                                  Ne so pleasaund of port, ne of pure nurtur.
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                                  As Achilles this choise in chapell beheld,
                                
                                  A fell arow in his frunt festnet of loue,
                                
                                  Woundit hym wickedly by will of hym-seluyn;
                                
                                  And lurkid doun lagher to his low brest,
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                                  All hatnet his hert, as a hote fyre,
                                
                                  Made hym langwys in Loue & Longynges grete. [folio 141b] 
                                
                                  Ay the more on þat maidon the mighty beheld,

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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 297
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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