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.

                                
                                  Þai solast hom samyn, as hom-seluon liket,
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                                  With venus werkes, þat hom well pleasid:
                                
                                  Þat sorily dessauis, & men to sorow bringes.
                                
                                  Whan þe day vp droghe & the dym voidet,
                                
                                  Thus Jason full ioyfull to þat gentill said:—
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                                  "Hit is best þat we buske & of bede rise,
                                
                                  Lest þe day vs be-daghe & our dedes knowen,
                                
                                  And we founden in fere & oure fame loste;
                                
                                  And I vnformet in faith how I fare shall,
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                                  Of my dedes to do, as ye me dere heght.
                                
                                  Iff þe any thing have amyt abill me to,
                                
                                  Þat þe me faithfully informe, & let me fare hethyn,
                                
                                  My deuer for to do & my deth voide;
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                                  Þat I might lede þe with luff into my londe home,
                                
                                  Wede ye with worship, and to wiffe hold."
                                
                                  Medea to þat mighty myldly answarit:—
                                
                                  "A! my lord & my loue, more lefe þan my seluyn,
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                                  I have mynde of youre mater most of all other:
                                
                                  I will fully enforme yow or ye fare hethyn,
                                
                                  How ye dewly shall do, & no drede haue.
                                
                                  Ryse we now full radly, rest here no longer,
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                                  And I shall tell you full tyte, & tary no thing." [folio 14b] 
                                
                                  Than þai cladde hom clenly vppon clese wise:
                                
                                  The burd bowet from þe bede, broght hym in haste
                                
                                  An ymage full nobill, þat he naite shulde,
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                                  Þat qwaint was & qwem, all of white siluer,
                                
                                  Charmet with enchauntment, & chargit hym to holde.
                                
                                  Hit was wroght all by wit & wiles to helpe,
                                
                                  And myghty suche mawmentry made to distroy:
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                                  Sho bade hym kepe it full close on his clene body.
                                
                                  An oyntment þat was noble, anon she hym set,

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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 27
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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