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.

                                
                                  Noght hedit his harme, ne his hurt meuyt,
                                
                                  And meuyt with malis to þe myld qwene.
                                
                                  Sho was bare of hir breast to þe bright mayll,
                                
                                  Hade no helme on hir hede fro harmys to weire;
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                                  Yet sadly ho sete, sewit hym agayne,
                                
                                  Thoght the freike with a fouchon first for to strike.
                                
                                  But Pirrus hym paynet with all hys pure strenght,
                                
                                  And flang at hir felly with a fyne swerd;
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                                  Share of þe sheld at a shyre corner;
                                
                                  Vnioynet the Jawmbe of þe iust arme,
                                
                                  Þat hit light on þe laund lythet full euyn:
                                
                                  Þen deghit þat doghty, dolle to be-hold,
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                                  ffell of hir fole to þe flat erthe!
                                
                                  And Pirrus with payn puld of his brest,
                                
                                  The spyll of his speire, in a space short:
                                
                                  Myche blode of his body bosshet out after,
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                                  And he gird to þe ground gronond full sore,
                                
                                  Halfe dede of þat dynt drogh into swone!
                                
                                  The Mirmydons mightely þere maistur þan toke,
                                
                                  With the shalke on a sheld shoke to his tent;
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                                  As a lede out of lyue laid hym to ground,
                                
                                  With weping and wo for his wale harme.
                                
                                  The maidnes of þe mighty qwene masit were all,
                                
                                  ffor the dole & the dethe of hor dere lady.
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                                  Thai afforset hom felly with hor fyn might,
                                
                                  The vilany to venge of þe vile grekes. [folio 170a] 
                                
                                  Þai mellit with the mirmydons, þat maisturles were,
                                
                                  Put hom doun prestly, pallit hom þurgh,
                                  Line 11132 
                                
                                  Slogh hom full sleghly for sleght þat þai couthe,
                                
                                  And other grekes, in hor greme, gird to þe deth:
                                
                                  Two thawsaund, full þroly, þai þrang out of lyue,
                                
                                  So fuersly þai fore in hor fell Ire,
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                                  ffor the losse of hor lady, þat hom lede shuld.

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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 362
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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