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.

                                
                                  Lest the troiens for tene hade takon hom sone,
                                
                                  And dungen to dethe for dole of the knight,
                                  Line 11632 
                                
                                  Amphymacus the fre, þat the freikes louet,
                                
                                  ffor ertyng his exile in ernest before.
                                
                                  Hit was aspiet full Specially, & spird all abowte,
                                
                                  The cause of the crie and the cant noise:
                                  Line 11636 
                                
                                  There was no wegh in this world, þat hit wete kowth,
                                
                                  Ne to meue in hor mynd what hit mene shuld.
                                
                                  The kyng & the councell cantly can rise;
                                
                                  Depertid the pepull, past to þe toune
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                                  Bothe knightes & comyns, and the court voidet.
                                
                                  THE TRAYTOR ANTENOR toke into counsell,
                                
                                  Dyamede he drogh furth, & dughty Vlixes,
                                
                                  In a place þat was priuey & no prese in,
                                  Line 11644 
                                
                                  To forther his foule wille, þat no freike herd.
                                
                                  Vlixes to this other vtterly said:—
                                
                                  "Why draghes þou on dregh þes dedis so ferr?
                                
                                  Þat þou vs heghly hase het, hold hit onone!"
                                  Line 11648 
                                
                                  Þan talkes the traytour truly agayne:—
                                
                                  "Ourgoddis knowen full kyndly þe cast of my hert,
                                
                                  That no dede I desyre so depely in thoght, [folio 177b] 
                                
                                  As your hestes to hold with helpe of Eneas.
                                  Line 11652 
                                
                                  Lelly, the lett, þat vs long taries,
                                
                                  Is a statur full strong of a stith god:
                                
                                  Þat ye shall lelly me leue, & yow list herkon,"
                                
                                  Diamede said duly;—"þou do vs to wete,
                                  Line 11656 
                                
                                  Vs likes full lelly to listyn þi wordis."
                                
                                  Antenor þan talkis, & told on þis wise:—
                                
                                  "Hit is lelly no lesyng, leue if ye will!
                                
                                  There was a kyng in this cost, þat the kith aght,
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                                  Honerable, auenaund, & Vlus was callit.
                                
                                  Here foundit he first the faire place Ylion;
                                
                                  After the nome of þat noble, nemyt hit is.
                                
                                  Here he tild vp a temple of a trew godde,
                                  Line 11664 
                                
                                  Of Palades the pure, as prouit is of old.

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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 379
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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