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.

                                
                                  Pantasilia, with petie of hir prise maidons.
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                                  Hit was ordant of all men by oppon assent,
                                
                                  Þat Philmen the fre kyng shuld ferk hit hym with,
                                
                                  And bryng on a bere to hir burgh home,
                                
                                  To be enterit in a towmbe, as a triet qwene,
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                                  And laid by hir legis, þat the lond aght.
                                
                                  Eneas eftir þis Egur of will,
                                
                                  Antenor, also, angardly fast
                                
                                  To the grekes on þe grene girdyn on swith,
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                                  ffor to trete of hor trayne as traytouris vnlell.
                                
                                  There met þai þo men, þat I mynt first,
                                
                                  Þat were grauntid by the grete of the grekes all,
                                
                                  ffor to mell in þe mater, & meue to an end.
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                                  The towne to betray truly þai þoght:
                                
                                  And of Elan, euermore, egerly fast
                                
                                  Þai meuit vnto Menelay at the mene tyme;
                                
                                  And had graunt of þat grete with a good wille,
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                                  All hir gilt to forgiff, and to grace take.
                                
                                  Than Agamynon, as grettist, þo grete for to wend,— [folio 176b] 
                                
                                  Dyamede he demyt, & doughty Vlixes,—
                                
                                  With tho worthy to wend to the wale towne,
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                                  As in maner of message fro the mayn grekes.
                                
                                  When þai comyn into courtte the comyns were fayne,
                                
                                  ffor þai wise were of wit, & worthy men bothe.
                                
                                  Þai hopit well the heldur to here of an end,
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                                  And the traitur þai trist of a tru pes.
                                
                                  The next day onone, as the night past,
                                
                                  By comaundement clenly the councell was gedurt,
                                
                                  All the pepull to the palis of the prise kyng
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                                  Were assemblit full sone, set all aboute.
                                
                                  Vlixes full lyvely vp olofte said:—
                                
                                  "The grekes for hor greme vnto gre asken
                                
                                  Gret sommes, for-sothe, to hor sad harmes,

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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 377
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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