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.

                                
                                  With all þe gold & þe gode of his gay fadur.
                                
                                  All þes meblis & mo, thurgh myght of my-selfe,
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                                  I wan vs in were thurgh my wight arme,
                                
                                  Þat has socourd vs with solas in oure sad hungur.
                                
                                  Þe fell kyng of Frigie I ferkid of lyue,
                                
                                  And mony othir myghti men of astate.
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                                  I haue aproprid to oure partis prouyns besyde,
                                
                                  With my labur full longe, and my lel wyt.
                                
                                  Þe Tore rem of Targason, & tyde Arundyna;
                                
                                  Cepesyn I sesit, & þe sid Larris;
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                                  And othir prouyns & plasis of pertis of Troy.
                                
                                  Thurgh my wightnes, I-wysse, & worthi Achilles,
                                
                                  We haue wonen in were þe worchip with hond;
                                
                                  And getyn to þe grekis þis ground with oure help.
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                                  This Vlixes, þat vtwith aunterit hym neuer [folio 186b] 
                                
                                  With no course for to come, as a knight shuld;
                                
                                  But with falshed & flatery, feynyng of wordes,
                                
                                  And callis hym the cavse of cacchyng þis toune.
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                                  But with treason & trauntis of his vntreu fare
                                
                                  He fortherit neuer a fyge with his fight ȝet.
                                
                                  There we the toune shuld haue tane with our triet strenght,
                                
                                  And haue wonyn hit in wer with worship oure|seluyn,
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                                  All oure lose hase he lost thurgh his lither dedis,
                                
                                  ffor to take hit by treason & trantis of hym.
                                
                                  Thurgh the craft of þat cursed, knighthode may shame
                                
                                  And wary all oure workes to the worldes end."
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                                  Thies wordes he warpit þo worthy before,
                                
                                  And þan sesit he of his saw, & set hym to ground.

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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 398
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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