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.

Mony wondit þat wegh of þe wale grekes, Line 10672 And mony slogh in þat slade with slight of his bowe. Dyamede full dernly drof to the kyng, [folio 163b] Phylmyn the fuerse, with a frike wille; Hym keppit þat kant on a kene speire. Line 10676 With prise of þe pafigons, his oune pure men, Mony grekes þo grym vnto ground broght; Woundit full wickedly, walt hom to dethe. Þai hurlet hom full hard with hor hoge dynttes, Line 10680 Þat Diamed full dernly was dryven abacke. Menestaus, þe mighty maistur of Athenes, Presit Polidamas & put hym of horse, With a spar of a speire in dispit felle. Line 10684 Þan he braid out a brand, bikrid hym hard, Wold haue kyld the knight to the cold erthe; But þat Philmyn, þe fuerse kyng, fell to þe duke, Halpe hym of hondes, hade hym away. Line 10688 Paris full prestly put hom to ground, With sharpnes of shot, shent mony knightes, And greuit full gretly þe grekes þat day. Þan Aiax, the auntrus, come angardly faste, Line 10692 With bornysshed brand britnet his folke: Mony troiens with tene he tirnit to dethe, And angart hom euyll, vnarmyt þai were; And he vnwoundit, I-wis, out of wothe paste. Line 10696 To the percians he put hym, þat Paris did lede, Britnet of þo bold, & myche bale wroght, Þat all flagh hym in fere for ferd of his dynttes.
THE DETHE OF AIAX, BY PARIS SLAYNE.
Paris (with) pyne was pricket at his hert, [MS. has "in"] Line 10700 To se his men so be-mard, & murtherit to dethe. With the birr of his bowe, & a big arow, Þat put was in poison, he pairet his armur,
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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.
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Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,
1869-1874.
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Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends

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