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.

                                
                                  And to dere hom with dethe, yf destany wold.
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                                  Þan þai comyn to þe kyng with company grete,
                                
                                  Of armyt men all somen, abill to fight.
                                
                                  This Priam persayuet of the prise hoge, [folio 174a] 
                                
                                  And sent to his son to ses at þat tyme.
                                  Line 11404 
                                
                                  The next day anone, the noble kyng Priam
                                
                                  Somond all the cité somyn to appere,
                                
                                  To carpe of a councell, & kyth hym hor wit,
                                
                                  And to mell in the mater with his men all.
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                                  When thei comyn were to courtte, this curset Eneas
                                
                                  fferkit vppon fote and to þe folke said:—
                                
                                  "Now, sirs, hit is sothely, me semes, for þe best
                                
                                  ffor to proffer hom pes, and purvey þerfore."
                                  Line 11412 
                                
                                  All his citizens, sothely, assentid þerwith,
                                
                                  ffor þai knew not the caste of the curset chefe.
                                
                                  The kyng to the komyns carpit agayne;
                                
                                  To put of þat purpos he paynet hym sore.
                                  Line 11416 
                                
                                  Eneas with Envy egurly saide:—
                                
                                  "Sir kyng, of this case carpe þou no ferre!
                                
                                  We wull treate of a trew, I tell the for sothe,
                                
                                  Whether þou will, or þou wilnot, wit þou for|sothe!"
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                                  Than Priam persayuit all the pepull hertis,
                                
                                  And feld well hit fortherit not the freike to with-stond:
                                
                                  Hym was leuer to the ledis lelly assent,
                                
                                  Than grucche þere agayne, & greue hym þe farre.
                                  Line 11424 
                                
                                  He said hom full soberly with a sore hert,
                                
                                  "Dos of þis dede as you dere thinke,
                                
                                  I assent for my-selfe, and sadly afferme."
                                
                                  Þan þai comynd in the cas, castyn hor wittes,
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                                  And with charge of þat choise erend chosyn Antenor,
                                
                                  As grettist by agrement, with the grekes to trete,
                                
                                  And pursew for pes: this purpos þai tokyn.

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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 372
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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