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.

                                
                                  And for to get of this gold & the grete sommys,
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                                  ffor couetous þere come knightes full ofte,
                                
                                  And endit in Auerys to ay lastand sorowe.
                                
                                  This Pelleus with pyne printede in hert
                                
                                  Iff he might sleghly be sleght & sletyng of wordes,
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                                  Gar Jason with any gyn the journey vndertake:
                                
                                  He were seker as hym semyde for sight of hym euer,
                                
                                  And most likly be loste & his los keppit.
                                
                                  He purpast hym plainly in his pure wit
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                                  ffor to tyse hym þerto, if it tyde might,
                                
                                  To take it hertely on honde in a high pride,
                                
                                  And þe way for to wylne with wilfull desyre.
                                
                                  He cast hym full cointly be cause of this thyng.
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                                  In a Cité be-syde to somyn a fest,
                                
                                  With princes and prelates & prise of the lond,
                                
                                  Thre dayes to endure with daintes ynogh.
                                
                                  The iijd day throly he thought in his hert
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                                  ffor to mele of this mater, þat he in mynde hade:
                                
                                  He cald Jason in his Japis with a Joly wille.
                                
                                  Before the baronage at ther burde thus þe buerne saide,—
                                
                                  "Cosyn, it is knowen þat I am Kyng here,
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                                  And mekyll comfordes me the crowne of this kyde realme;
                                
                                  But more it Joyes me, Jason, of þi just werkes,
                                
                                  Þat so mighty & meke & manly art holdyn:
                                
                                  Now þi fame shall goo fer & þu furse holdyn,
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                                  And all prouyns & pertes þi pes shall desyre.
                                
                                  To tessayle a tresure tristy for euer, [folio 5b] 
                                
                                  Thy selfe to be sene and in suche fame,
                                
                                  By þi name þus anoisyt & for noble holden,
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                                  Whyle þou rixlis in this Reame no riot we drede,
                                
                                  But all fferd be þerfore and frendship dyssire.
                                
                                  Hit wold sothely me set as souerayne in Joye,
                                
                                  Iff our goddes wold graunt þat þu grace hade,

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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 8
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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