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.

                                
                                  By crafte þat she kouth of hir coint artys.
                                
                                  Eson, þat elde man þat I er saide,
                                
                                  Hade a son of hym-selfe semly to wale,
                                
                                  And Jason, þat gentill aioynet was to name:
                                  Line 128 
                                
                                  A faire man of feturs, & fellist in armys,
                                
                                  As meke as a Mayden, & mery of his wordis.
                                
                                  This Jason for his gentris was ioyfull till all,
                                
                                  Wele louit with þe lordes & the londe hole;
                                  Line 132 
                                
                                  All worshipped þat worthy inwones aboute,
                                
                                  No les þan þe lege þat hom lede shuld:
                                
                                  And he as bainly obeyede to the buerne his Eme,
                                
                                  As þof his syre hade the soile & septure to yeme.
                                  Line 136 
                                
                                  Pelleus persayuit the people anone,
                                
                                  That the londe so hym louede, lorde as he were,
                                
                                  And ay drede hym on dayes for doute þat might falle,
                                
                                  Lest he put hym from priuelage & his place toke,
                                  Line 140 
                                
                                  Of Tessaile, as truthe wolde, to be trew kyng.
                                
                                  Thus Pelleus with payne was pricket in hert,
                                
                                  ffull egurly with enuy, & euer hym bethoght,
                                
                                  With a course of vnkyndnes he caste in his thoghte,
                                  Line 144 
                                
                                  The freike vpon faire wise ferke out of lyue,
                                
                                  And he no daunger nor deire for þat dede haue.
                                
                                  He bethought hym full thicke in his throo hert,
                                
                                  And in his wit was he war of a wyle sone,
                                  Line 148 
                                
                                  Of a fame þat fer in fele kynges londes,
                                
                                  And borne was a brode for a bare aunter. [folio 4b] 
                                
                                  Out in the Orient Orible to here,
                                
                                  In a cuntre was cald Colchos by name,
                                  Line 152 
                                
                                  Was (an) aunter in a nyle þat I nem shall, [MS. has "as."] 
                                
                                  Beyonde the terage of Troy as þe trety sayse,
                                
                                  There was a wonderfull wethur weghes to be-holde,
                                
                                  With a flese þat was fyne, flamande of gold;
                                  Line 156 
                                
                                  And þe Kyng of þat coste callid was by name
                                
                                  Chethes, for sothe, as souerayne & lord:

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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 6
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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