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.

                                
                                  ffor all the craft þat þai kowthe, & the coynt sleght.
                                
                                  The secund, for-sothe, I said you before,
                                
                                  When the bestis were britnet & broght to þe auter,
                                
                                  With the entrell euermore euyn vppo lofte,
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                                  Come an Erne, þat was Eger, euer on a crye,
                                
                                  Light downe lyuely fro the low ayre,
                                
                                  Braid vp the bowels, & bere hom away,
                                
                                  And showvet to the shippes of the shene grekes.
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                                  The troiens merueld full mekyll of þe mayne foghle,
                                
                                  All stonyed þai stode, starond aboute.
                                
                                  Thai wist þere goddes were greuit with a gret yre,
                                
                                  And wrothe at the werkes, but wist þai no cause.
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                                  Cassandra to councell, þen call þai belyue,
                                
                                  To haue a dom of þat dede, if the dere kowthe.
                                
                                  The first signe, ho hom sayd, sothely was this:
                                
                                  Þat Appollo, the pure god, was put into wrathe,
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                                  ffor tene of his temple was trasit with blode
                                
                                  Of Achilles the choise, þat chaunsit to be slayne:
                                
                                  "Þat mys to amend, is maistur ye go
                                
                                  To the corse of þat kyng in his cleane towmbe,
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                                  Light þere a lowe lyuely with honde,
                                
                                  ffecche þere your ffyre, & festyn on þe auter,
                                
                                  And þat bren wull full bright in the brode temple."
                                
                                  Than passid the pepull to the pure þrugh:
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                                  As kend hom Cassandra þai kyndlit a fire.
                                
                                  Of the secund, for sothe, ho saide o this wise:—
                                
                                  "This towne is betrayed, trist ye non other,
                                
                                  And grauntid to the grekes by gomys of your owne."
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                                  Calcas the curset, þat comynt with the grekes,
                                
                                  Bisshop of the burgh, as I aboue told,

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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 384
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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