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.

THE DETHE OF TROILUS, BY ACHILLES TRAYTURLY SLAYNE IN THE XXJ BATELL.

                                    When hit turnyt to þe tyme torfer shuld rise,
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                                    Tho mighty on mold metton to fight,
                                  
                                    With thaire batels full breme, bret full of pepull;
                                  
                                    And mony bold were þere britnet vpon both halues.
                                  
                                    Achilles the c[h]oise kyng chargit his knightes,
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                                    Er þai busket to batell for baret on erthe,
                                  
                                    Þat þai holly on a hepe held hom to-gedur,
                                  
                                    And mynd of no mater for myschef ne othir,
                                  
                                    Saue Troiell to take with torfer þat day;
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                                    Prese hym with pyne in parties aboute;
                                  
                                    Cacche hym fro company, close hym within,
                                  
                                    In myddes his mirmydons þat mighty to hold;
                                  
                                    Stuff hym with strenght þat he ne stir might,
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                                    But hym-self hym to sle sleghly with hond.
                                  
                                    When he meuyt his men þis malis to wirke,
                                  
                                    He fore to þe fight with his felle knightes:
                                  
                                    All his mirmydons mightely meuit hym after,
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                                    And put hym in prise his purpos to hold.
                                  
                                    Þan Troiell full tidely turnyt into batell,
                                  
                                    With a folke þat was fell, fuerse of assaute,
                                  
                                    Hardy men of hond, hede knightes all,
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                                    And wondurfully wroght on hor wale fos.
                                  
                                    Troiell the tru, with his triet strenght, [folio 158a] 
                                  
                                    So britnet with his brond, & brisit the grekes,
                                  
                                    Þat þai foundyt to flight for ferd of hym one,
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                                    And lefton the lond, þof hom lothe thught.
                                  
                                    Then the Mirmydons mightely meuit in hole,
                                  
                                    Two thowsaund by tale, as taght hom Achilles.
                                  
                                    His comaundement to kepe kaston hom þen,
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                                    And assemblit on a sop sadly to-gedur.
                                  
                                    The Troiens with tene þai tirnyt to ground,
                                  
                                    Kyld of hor knightes & comyns full mony;

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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 335
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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