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. Line 11564 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, Line 11568 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, Line 11572 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. Line 11576 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, Line 11580 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, Line 11584 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, Line 11588 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 Line 11592 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, Line 11596
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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.
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Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,
1869-1874.
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Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends

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"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." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ape7380.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2025.
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