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.

                                
                                  Lut to þe lady, & of his lyff þanket,
                                
                                  Mony sithes for sothe, er he sese wold.
                                
                                  Þan he semblid his sorte on a sop holl,
                                  Line 11040 
                                
                                  And Pantasilia full pertly all hir prise maidnes,
                                
                                  Palidamas, the pert knight, þat put was to fote,
                                
                                  Was þrast þrough the þrong, & of þrepe past,
                                
                                  Horsit in hast, highit agayne,
                                  Line 11044 
                                
                                  With fuerse men in fight a full fell nowmber.
                                
                                  Eneas also with angardly mony,
                                
                                  Kyng Remys the Riche, with a roghe batell,
                                
                                  Thies hurlet on a hepe with a hard shoure.
                                  Line 11048 
                                
                                  Dynttes full dedly were delt hom among,
                                
                                  And mony freike vndurfote frunt of hor horse.
                                
                                  Pyrrus hym paynet to pyne of his fos,
                                
                                  And the wemen wightly walton doun þe grekes.
                                  Line 11052 
                                
                                  On (Glaycon), a gome, gird was to dethe [MS. has "Glaym"] 
                                
                                  With Pirrus in prise, Polidamas brother, [folio 169a] 
                                
                                  Antenor avne sun, aldist but he,
                                
                                  Gettyn in his gamyn on a gay lady.
                                  Line 11056 
                                
                                  Pantasilia presit Pirrus full fast,
                                
                                  And the freike hym defendit with a fyne chere.
                                
                                  So burly þo big brusshit to-gedur,
                                
                                  Þat backe to þe bent borne were þai aither;
                                  Line 11060 
                                
                                  Stithly þai start vp, strekyn to-gedur
                                
                                  Tyll the prese of the pepull partid hom sonder.
                                
                                  Polydamas, for payne of his pure broder,
                                
                                  Gird doun the grekes, and myche grem did:
                                  Line 11064 
                                
                                  With woundes full wide walt hom of horse,
                                
                                  And wondurfully wroght to wreke of his grem.
                                
                                  Thurgh helpe of his hond, & the hede qwene,
                                
                                  The grekes of þe ground were gird to þe flight:
                                  Line 11068 
                                
                                  Þai folowet fast on þe fare, with hor fell dynttes
                                
                                  Dang hom to dethe, & deiret hom mekill.
                                
                                  Pirrus, with pyne, and the proud Thelamon,
                                
                                  Dyamede the doughty, dernly with-stode,
                                  Line 11072 
                                
                                  Gert the grekes with greme on the ground stad,

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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 360
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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