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.

                                    
                                      But what fortherit the fight of þo fell maidyns,
                                    
                                      Syn the grekes on hom gedrit in so gret nowmbers?
                                    
                                      There murtherit were mony of the mayn troiens:
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                                      All the bent of þat birr blody beronnen.
                                    
                                      As Dares of the dede duly me tellus,
                                    
                                      X. M.nd, full proly, in the þrepe endit.
                                    
                                      Þan flagh all in fere, & the feld leuyt;
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                                      Turnyt vnto toune with tene at þere hert.
                                    
                                      All the worthy þere were, wemen & other,
                                    
                                      The yates with yomeryng ȝepely þai stake,
                                    
                                      Barrit hom full bigly on hor best wyse,
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                                      Neuer in purpos with prise to pas at hom efte,
                                    
                                      To no batell on bent, but the burgh kepe.

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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 363
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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