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.

                                
                                  As the glyssenond glemes þat glenttes on þe sknowe.)
                                
                                  Tho myld with the Mirmydons mellit so hard,
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                                  Þat mony worthy þai woundit, & warpit to dethe.
                                
                                  Þan Telamon come tyte with a tried wille,
                                
                                  To Pantasilia preset with a proud dynt.
                                
                                  He gird hir to ground, and greuit hir yll,
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                                  And ho stithly in the stoure start vppon fote,
                                
                                  Turnyt hir to Telamon tite with a swerd,
                                
                                  Hit hym so heturly with a hert wille,
                                
                                  Þat he hurlit down hedlonges to the hard erthe,
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                                  And lay gronond on ground with a grym noyse.
                                
                                  Than the maidnes with might, at the mene tyme, [folio 168a] 
                                
                                  Theire lady vppolofte lyftyn onon,
                                
                                  Þat was ffrike to the fight & of fyne strenght,
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                                  And as lion on the laund launchit aboute.
                                
                                  Þat worthy was war of þe woo sone,
                                
                                  How Philmen the fre kyng was fongid in hond;
                                
                                  Sho macchit hir manly the Mirmydons to,
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                                  With hir maydnes of might, & of main strenght.
                                
                                  So þo wemen in wer welton doun the knightes,
                                
                                  Deyrit hom with dynttes, dryvon hom abacke,
                                
                                  Þat all fled hom for fere, ferd of hor dethe.
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                                  Pirrus þis prowes pertly beheld,
                                
                                  How his Mirmydons with might were mellit to ground:
                                
                                  Philmen the fre kyng, þat he in fyst hade,
                                
                                  He lete to þe large, lause of his hondes.
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                                  He criet on his knightes with a kene wille:—
                                
                                  "Ne shamys you not shalkes to shunt of þe fild,
                                
                                  ffor the weiknes of wemen woundis a litell!
                                
                                  Turnes yow full tyte, & taries a while,
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                                  Let vs wend to yon wemen, walt hom of horse;
                                
                                  With swyng of our swerdes swap hom in sonder,
                                
                                  And dyng hom to dethe for deyring of other."
                                
                                  Pantasilia the pride of Pirrus ouer-herd;

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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 358
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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