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.

                                
                                  Þat he wold bogh to the bed of the bold kyng,
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                                  And hade at his hede, þat he haue shuld.
                                
                                  Þan he fot hom of florens a full fuerse soume:
                                
                                  The gome grippet the gold, & his gate held;
                                
                                  Turnyt to the tent of his tru lord;
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                                  Presit to þe pelow, & put hit euyn under.
                                
                                  Þan the freike, in his fare, fore to Vlixes,
                                
                                  And said, all duly was done as the Duke bad.
                                
                                  Þan Vlixes, with vtteraunse, vne at the tyme,
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                                  Gert britten þe buerne with a bare sword,
                                
                                  Þat he no talis shuld tell of treson was cast.
                                
                                  Þen þe letters on þe laund, to þe led boundyn,
                                
                                  Were foundyn with a freke of þe fyn grekis,
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                                  And red to þe rynkis, as þe roll saide,
                                
                                  Of þe cast by þe kyng, & knawen with all.
                                
                                  Þen þe grete of þe grekis, & þe gay kynges,
                                
                                  ffull heghly in hate hadyn þe prinse.
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                                  Wightly þo wale kynges wan to his tent,
                                
                                  ffund a bag full bret, all of bright gold,
                                
                                  Happit at þe hede of his hegh bed.
                                
                                  Vne the selfe and the same sowmet before, [folio 193a] 
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                                  As the ledis, in the lettur on the lande, fond.
                                
                                  Þan þai presit Palomydon with a proude fare,
                                
                                  As a traytor vntrew, þat treason had wroght:
                                
                                  But the freike hym defendit with a fyn chere
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                                  With batell on bent, barly hym-seluon,
                                
                                  To trye out the truthe with his trist hond,
                                
                                  On what buerne so was bold þe batell to take.
                                
                                  And when no freike was furse to fight with hym one,
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                                  Of all the grekes so grym thurgh the gret oste,
                                
                                  Þan Vlixes the lord, with his lefe wordes,
                                
                                  Askewset the skathe & sklaunder with all:
                                
                                  He plesit the prince, & purgit his fame,
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                                  And the folke with his flatery falsly dissayuit.'
                                
                                  Yet thies lyghers vnlell, with hor laith speche,

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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 412
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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