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 a smorther & a smoke smult through his nase,
                                
                                  He rut out roidly with a rede hete,
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                                  Þat all blasit the bent on a breme lowe;
                                
                                  And as he tilt out his tung with his tethe grym,
                                
                                  He straght fro hym stremes all of styth venym.
                                
                                  The freike was a-ferd of þat felle beste,
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                                  And raght to his Ryng in a rad haste,
                                
                                  Held it high in his hond, þat he behold might.
                                
                                  ffor chynyng of the chene stone he shont with his hede,
                                
                                  And with-droghe the deire of his dere attur;
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                                  All dropet the dule as he degh wold.
                                
                                  Þis stone full of strenght, as þe story tellus,
                                
                                  Is erdand in Judé, as Isoder sais:
                                
                                  Be it smethe owþer smert, smaragden hit hat.
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                                  Þere is no derffe dragon, ne no du edder,
                                
                                  Ne no beste so bold with no bale atter,
                                
                                  May loke on þe light, but he his lyffe tyne.
                                
                                  Þis stone with his stremys stroyed all the venym,
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                                  And drepit the dragon to the dethe negh.
                                
                                  Jason grippede graithly to a grym sworde,
                                
                                  Dange on the deuyll with a derffe wille,
                                
                                  Tyll the stremys of stynke & of stythe venum
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                                  Past out in the place pyne to be-holde.
                                
                                  He laid on þat loodly, lettyd he noght,
                                
                                  With dynttes full dregh, till he to dethe paste,
                                
                                  And he Enfecte the ffirmament with his felle noise.
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                                  Jason of his iorney was ioyfull ynoghe,
                                
                                  Gryppet a grym toole, gyrd of his hede,
                                
                                  Vnioynis the Jamnys þat iuste were to-gedur:
                                
                                  Gyrd out the grete tethe, grippet hom sone, [folio 17a] 
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                                  Sew hom in the soile or he sesse wold.
                                
                                  Stythe knightes and stoure stert vp agayne,
                                
                                  Armet at all peses abill to fight,

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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 32
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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