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.

                                
                                  This Egea, the gest sais, was a iust lady,
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                                  To Polence, the prise kyng, vne a pure doghter,
                                
                                  (Kyng of Argonen cald in cuntres aboute)
                                
                                  And hade a brother full bold, & barly no moo.
                                
                                  ffaire on hir fader syde, as fell hom by chaunse,
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                                  All the londes full large of the lefe kyng,
                                
                                  Polence of price, þat was hir pure fadur,
                                
                                  Lefte to þo litle, as his leue heires.
                                
                                  Þan partid was prestly the prise Rewme of Argon,
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                                  Betwene Assandrus for-sothe, & his suster Egea.
                                
                                  This Egea ajoinet to hir iust spouse,
                                
                                  Dyomede the dughty, with hir due part.
                                
                                  Assandrus, for-sothe, sais me the lettur,
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                                  With Dyomed dernly dressit to wend
                                
                                  To the terage of Troy with a tore ost;
                                
                                  And er þai comyn to the company of þe clene grekes,
                                
                                  There all semblet were sothely at þe same tyme,
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                                  Þai past by a perty of þe prouyns of Boys,
                                
                                  There Thelafus þat tyme was a tore kyng.
                                
                                  There þai bowet fro þe barge to þe banke syde,
                                
                                  To solas hom a season with sum of hor pepull.
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                                  Thelaphus with tene toke hit to hert,
                                
                                  Þat þai light on his londe, & no leue hade:
                                
                                  He fore to þat folke with a fell chere,
                                
                                  With a company clene, kyde men of armys.
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                                  There faght þai in fere with a felle wille,
                                
                                  And kild of þere knightes to þe cold erthe.
                                
                                  This Assandrus, I said you, with a sad weppyn
                                
                                  Mony dong to the dethe of his derf knightes: [folio 195b] 
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                                  There-at Thelaphus hade tene, & turnet belyue,
                                
                                  Caght to a kene spere, cuttyng before,
                                
                                  Caupit euyn with the knight; kyld hym to dethe.
                                
                                  Þan Dyomede with dole drogh hym vp sone,

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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 417
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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