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 Anchises his choise (fader) chefe into flete, [MS. has 'moder.'] 
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                                  And halit furth hastely to þe high see,
                                
                                  As hym demyt was by dome by dukes before.
                                
                                  He not wist, in this world, what wayes to hold,
                                
                                  Ne, what cost, ne cuntre, come vnto laund.
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                                  At the last, as our lord wold, he light into hauyn,
                                
                                  After in Itaile, as aunter befelle,
                                
                                  Tegh vnto Tuskan, & turnyt to londe. [folio 197a] 
                                
                                  Now what worthe of þat whe, & his wale godis,
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                                  ffro he Tuskan had takyn, tellis hit not here.
                                
                                  Of his wondurfull werkes who wilnes to know,
                                
                                  Go loke at the lede, þat his lyfe wroght.
                                
                                  Virgell, full verely, þos vertus can tell,
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                                  In a boke þat buerne of þat bold made,
                                
                                  Þat Enyodos, with noble men, is to nome cald.
                                
                                  The Dere wife of Dyamede of his dethe herd,
                                
                                  How he turnyt vnto troy, & the toune keppit
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                                  Of his ffrikenes in fight & his fyne strenght:
                                
                                  Ho dout hir full deply, for drede of þe kyng,
                                
                                  Lest he raght to his rewme with a roid fare,
                                
                                  Kyld all hir knightes & comyns by-dene,
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                                  And hir-seluyn ouerset, & sesit the londe.
                                
                                  Þan Egea, full iointly, with hir ioly knightes
                                
                                  Toke counsell in the case, & comynt to-gedur.
                                
                                  The lady by lettur þan louely send
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                                  ffor Dyamede þe derfe, þat was hir du lorde:
                                
                                  Þan he turnyt fro Troy to his triet Rewme.
                                
                                  With myche worship his wife welcomyt hym home,
                                
                                  And his Arguens also, all were þai fayn.
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                                  Othir kynges of þe kith, þat comyn fro troy,
                                
                                  Þat were put fro þere prouyns, Repairet agayne,
                                
                                  Recounseld to þere cuntre, comyns & other,

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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 421
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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