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.

                                
                                  Þat mighty hym met with a mayn stroke,
                                
                                  Þat he bend in the backe to þe bare sadell,
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                                  Vnneth held hym on horse for harme þat he þolet.
                                
                                  Ho raght to hym radly, reft hym his sheld,
                                
                                  And betoke [hit] full tite to a triet maiden.
                                
                                  Telamon with tene turnyt to þe lady,
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                                  To venge of hir velany, & voide hym of harme.
                                
                                  He launchit to þat louely with a light wille,
                                
                                  And ho keppit the kyng, kest hym to ground,
                                
                                  Till his head with the hard yerthe hurlit full sore.
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                                  So faght þat freike with hur fyne strenght,
                                
                                  Þat ho knowen was for kene with kaupe of hir swerd,
                                
                                  And myche dut for hir dynttes or þe day endit.
                                
                                  So þat worthy in wer wroght at þat tyme,
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                                  Þat Telamon ho toke, & turnyt away.
                                
                                  Diomede, þat Duke was duly beside,
                                
                                  Negh wode of his wit for þe wale kyng;
                                
                                  So he fore þere in fight with his fell strokes,
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                                  Þat the lede fro the ladis lawse away past.
                                
                                  Þan Pantasilia the pert with a pure steuyn,
                                
                                  Criet on hir company with a cant wille;
                                
                                  Assemblit hir sorte on a sad hepe,
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                                  And so fuersly þai faght with the felle grekes,
                                
                                  Thurgh helpe of þat hynd, and hir hede maidons,
                                
                                  Þat all fell to þe flight, & the feld leuyt.
                                
                                  The wemyn, as the went, welt hom to ground,
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                                  With swappis of hor swordes swelt mony knightes;
                                
                                  Chasit hom with choppis þo chyuallurs ladis,
                                
                                  To the side of the sea, or þai sesse wold.
                                
                                  There the grekes with grem had the gre lost,
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                                  And endit for euer, euyn at þat tyme,

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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 355
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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