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.

                                
                                  Hade hym fro horse fet with helpe of his knightes;
                                
                                  And myche water, I-wis, weppit þerfore.
                                
                                  This was clerely the cause of þat knightes dethe,
                                
                                  Yet his suster, þat I said, sothely was told,
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                                  Þat Diamede with dethe had done hym away,
                                
                                  ffor to wyn by his wyff all the wale rewme.
                                
                                  The lady for the losse of hir leue brother,
                                
                                  Myche mournyng ho made in hir mynd þan:
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                                  Hir hade leuer haue lost all hir lond hole,
                                
                                  Þan hir brother ho best louet of buernes olyue.
                                
                                  Thus heuet þat hynd to hir hede lord,
                                
                                  ffor tithinges hor tolde were of hir tru brother,
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                                  And the lettur with the lesyng, þat the lede send,
                                
                                  (Naulus the noble, by his naite sun)
                                
                                  Ho assemblit hir suremen in a sad oste,
                                
                                  And warnet hom wightly the mater to kepe,
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                                  And Diamede on þe depe dryue from þe lond.
                                
                                  Thus the bold kyng was banisshet fro his big yle,
                                
                                  All will of his wone his werdis to laite.
                                
                                  And Sythen, vnto Salerne he soght on his way,
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                                  There Teucro, the tall kyng, tan was for lorde,
                                
                                  Þat was Brother of birthe to þe bold Thelamon.
                                
                                  To Teucro was told of Thelamons dethe,
                                
                                  That Dyamede, the Duke, had dernly conspiret
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                                  With Vlixes the lorde, þat hym of lyue broght,
                                
                                  Gert take hym full tite in his tore angur:
                                
                                  But he stale fro þat stithe stilly by night,
                                
                                  Wan into watur, & away past.
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                                  Demaphus the du kyng, & dughty Athamas,
                                
                                  On suche wise, with þere wiues, were wernet þere londes.
                                
                                  Þan come þai to Cartage, with care at þere hertes,

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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 418
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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