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-in a yere, full yeuerly, þat yepe was with child,
                                
                                  Consayuit of my-selfe, & a son hade.
                                  Line 13232 
                                
                                  Þan I purpast to passe with pepull a few,
                                
                                  And cast me by craft & conyng þerfore.
                                
                                  Of me þe worthy was war, & my wille knew,
                                
                                  And sped hir full specially my sped for to let, [folio 202a] 
                                  Line 13236 
                                
                                  With wiles & wicchecraft my way for to hindur;
                                
                                  But my-self of þat sciens somwhat I can,
                                
                                  Well enformet of the feate, & hir fare marret;
                                
                                  And all hir note of Nigromansy naitly distroyet.
                                  Line 13240 
                                
                                  Þan I wan fro the woman with wyles ynow;
                                
                                  With a lite, þat me left were, launchit to see;
                                
                                  Past ouer the pale ythes, & perellis full mony,
                                
                                  Into the cuntre of Calaphe cast with a storme,
                                  Line 13244 
                                
                                  There the qwene with hir qwaintis qwaitid me to cacche:
                                
                                  Held me with hir, & my hede knightes,
                                
                                  Alse longe as hir list, with hir loue bounden.
                                
                                  But hit noyet me noght for hir noble chere,
                                  Line 13248 
                                
                                  That ho made to my men with myrthes & Ioye. [ [folio 203a] See Note.] 
                                
                                  At the last, fro þat lady, I lausyt myselfe
                                
                                  By wiles, & wit, & wo, þat I tholit.
                                
                                  Hir craft & hir conyng by course I distroyet,
                                  Line 13252 
                                
                                  And safe with my soudiours slippit hir fro.
                                
                                  Þan I sailet forth soundly on the Sea occian,
                                
                                  With hom þat I hade, and happit to light
                                
                                  In an yle, þere an old temple naitly I founde,
                                  Line 13256 
                                
                                  Of a god, þat with gomes was gretly honouret.
                                
                                  There answare hade all men after þere wille,
                                
                                  Both certayn & sothe, þat soght for to wete.
                                
                                  At þat orribill I asket angardly myche,
                                  Line 13260 
                                
                                  Of dethe, & of deire, as destyny willes;
                                
                                  And other ferlies full fele I fraynit of hit.
                                
                                  There spirde I full specially in spede for to here,
                                
                                  When dethe hade vs drepit, & our day comyn,

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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 433
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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