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.

                                
                                  Thai told hym full tyte, the troiens with forse
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                                  Gird doun the grekes, & the ground wan;
                                
                                  Takyn þere tenttes, turnyt hom vnder;
                                
                                  Oppressit hom with payn & with pale strokes;
                                
                                  And þai no pouer hade plainly to put hom abake.
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                                  "And ȝe, that hopyn in hele here for to leng,
                                
                                  Sekir of your selfe, & no sore þole!
                                
                                  Hit shall hap you to haue in a hond while,
                                
                                  ffyfty thowsaund fell folke out of Troy,
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                                  To take you with tene & tirne you to ground.
                                
                                  Mony of your Mirmydons marrit for euer:
                                
                                  Thai haue no forse hom to fend, þaire fos are so kene;
                                
                                  Withouten socour of suremen þai sothely bene dede!"
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                                  Achilles for angur angardly swat;
                                
                                  So hatnet his hert in a hote yre,
                                
                                  Þe loue of his lady þan left was behynd,
                                
                                  Welt into wodnes, wan to his armys,
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                                  Strode on a stith horse, stroke into batell. [folio 157a] 
                                
                                  He fore with his fos in his felle angur,
                                
                                  As a wolfe in his wodenes with wethurs in fold:
                                
                                  He hurlit of helmys, hedis within,
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                                  Rent thurgh ribbis, russhit vnfaire:
                                
                                  Tenyt so the troiens with his tore weppon,
                                
                                  That þe bent was on blode blent with the erthe,
                                
                                  ffor britnyng of buernes with his bright sword.
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                                  Þan Troiell with tene the tourfer beheld,
                                
                                  Knew well the kyng by caupe of his hond,
                                
                                  Reiches his Reynis & his roile strykes,
                                
                                  Caires to þe kyng with a kant wille.
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                                  The kyng met hym with mayn, macchit hym sore;
                                
                                  Derf dynttes þai delt þo doghty betwene,
                                
                                  With þaire fawchons fell, femyt of blode.
                                
                                  Troiell carue at the kyng with a kene sword,

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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 333
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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