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.

                                    
                                      Of care & complaint, coldyng in hert,
                                    
                                      Hit wold haue persit with pyté any pure sawle,
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                                      And tendrit with teres hor torfer to se.
                                    
                                      Hit were labur to long hir lotis to tell,
                                    
                                      Or any wegh for to write, þof he wit hade,
                                    
                                      The sorow of þat semly, as sais me the lyne.
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                                      Both of kyng, & of kythe, & the cleane qwene,
                                    
                                      Abriget of baret, for bale þat sho þolet;
                                    
                                      And hade pitie of þat pure, hir payne for to here.
                                    
                                      ffor the luff þat she laid on þere lefe sun,
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                                      And the dole, þat she dregh, for his dethe one,
                                    
                                      Thai worshippit þat worthy as þere wale doghter; [folio 165a] 
                                    
                                      And lelly no lesse louyt hir in hert.
                                    
                                      Þan in Iono ioly temple, as the iest tellis,
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                                      Atyret was a tabernacle, triet for þe nones,
                                    
                                      Made all of marbill, of mason deuyse,
                                    
                                      With mony staryng stone stondyng aboute.
                                    
                                      Therein Paris was put with prestis of þe laghe,
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                                      And closit vp his corse vpon clene wise,
                                    
                                      With Sacrifice and solenité suche as þai vsit,
                                    
                                      And come to corupcioun, as his kynd asked.

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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 351
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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