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.

                                  
                                    While this gode was in gederyng the grettes among,
                                  
                                    Antenor to the temple trayturly yode;
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                                    Preuely the prest puld into councell,
                                  
                                    (Thoantes, me tellys the text, þat he heght,
                                  
                                    Þat was geeter of the god, þat the gome yernyt.)
                                  
                                    With a gobet of gold, a full gret somme,
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                                    And Thoantes betaght, tarit no lengur.
                                  
                                    Thies wordes to the wegh warpit onone,
                                  
                                    In a place out of prese, priuely there:—
                                  
                                    "Lo, of gold, & of good here a gret nowmber,
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                                    The to lyue with in lykyng, & thy leue ayris.
                                  
                                    The god, þat þou geetis, gyf me þer-ffore,
                                  
                                    Þat I may beire fro the burgh, shall no buerne wete.
                                  
                                    Thou art no farder, in faith, thy fame for to lose,
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                                    Þan I my lyffe were leuer leue in þe plase,
                                  
                                    Er any troiens with truthe might telle suche a fawte,
                                  
                                    Or soche a point on me put in perlament her|aftur.
                                  
                                    Therfore, priuely, by purpos Paladian þou send
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                                    To honerable Vlixes, vtwith the toune.
                                  
                                    If any fawte þer funden be, we faithly may say,
                                  
                                    The pure kyng Paladian priuely stale:
                                  
                                    And we excusit of skathe, yf sclaunder shall Rise."
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                                    Prestly the prest his purpos with-stode
                                  
                                    All the night with noy, till negh at þe day,
                                  
                                    Till he caght was in couetouse, & cumbrit hym seluen.
                                  
                                    Than grauntid he the god to the grym traytor, [folio 179a] 
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                                    And toke hit fro the temple, tariet no lengur,
                                  
                                    Sent hit furth sodainly by a sad frend,
                                  
                                    To Vlixes vtwith, egerly þan.
                                  
                                    Hit was noiset onon in the nowble toune,

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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 382
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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