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.

                                
                                  Toke hit hym full tyte & tolde hym these wordes:—
                                
                                  "This strongly distroy shall þe strenght of þe venym,
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                                  And fade all the ffyr and þe furse lowe."
                                
                                  Than ho raught hym a ring with a riche stone,
                                
                                  Þat no poison enpaire might, þe power is soche:
                                
                                  And if it borne were in batell on his bare flesshe,
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                                  He shulde slyde forth sleghly & vnslayn worthe.
                                
                                  Achates it calde is with clene men of wit,
                                
                                  And in Cicill forsothe sene was it first:
                                
                                  Eneas it name & in note hade,
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                                  Whan he to cartage come vnknowen with sight.
                                
                                  And þan ho broght hym a bref all of brode letres,
                                
                                  Þat was comly by crafte a clerke for to rede;
                                
                                  And enformyt him fayre how he fare shuld,
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                                  When he [h]is deuer hade done & drow to þe whethir,
                                
                                  ffor to knele on his knes to the cold erth,
                                
                                  And grete all his goddes with a good chere;
                                
                                  And the rolle for to rede or he rest thry,
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                                  As with Sacrifice to shew & seruice to goddes,
                                
                                  Þat hym grauntede of grace þat gifte for to haue,
                                
                                  Þat he might worthely it welde, & away beire.
                                
                                  And þan sho gafe hym a glasse with a good lycour,
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                                  And bade whan he buskyt to the bolde Exin,
                                
                                  To werke it with mesure, & in hor mouthe caste,
                                
                                  And þai clappe shall full clene, & neuer vnclose aftur,
                                
                                  Ne neuer dere hym a dyse with no dede efte. [folio 15a] 
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                                  Thus enfourmet ho þat fre of þe fete euyn,
                                
                                  How he wyn shuld his worship, & his woche pas:
                                
                                  And þen lacches his leue & his loue kyst,
                                
                                  Past furth priuely and þat pert leuyt,

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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 28
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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