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 mony bold men in batell and biggest in Armes.
                                  Line 1032 
                                
                                  To Pelleus pertly þen past he agayne,
                                
                                  Assemblid of Soudiours a full sadde pepull, [folio 18b] 
                                
                                  Of the tidiest of Tessaile, tore men of strenght.
                                
                                  Þen to Philon þe freike ferkit in haste,
                                  Line 1036 
                                
                                  To a Duke þat was derffe & doughti of honde,
                                
                                  Nestor, A noble man naitest in werre,
                                
                                  Þat hade louyt hym of long, & his lefe frynde;
                                
                                  He hight hym full hertely þat he haue sholde
                                  Line 1040 
                                
                                  ffertheryng to his fight with a fre wille.
                                
                                  Þen leues þe lede & of lond paste
                                
                                  To Pelleus pristly, þat puruiaunce hade made
                                
                                  Of twenty shippes full shene, shot on þe depe,
                                  Line 1044 
                                
                                  All redy to the Roode of þe roghe ythes,
                                
                                  With mony barons full bold & buernes þer-in.
                                
                                  Þen comyn thies kynges fro þer kyth evyn,
                                
                                  Saylyng full sound with seasonable wyndes;
                                  Line 1048 
                                
                                  At Tessaile full tyte turnyt into havyn,
                                
                                  ffor to fare to þere ffoos with a ffryke wille.
                                
                                  Þus it tyd as I telle þe tyme of þe yere,
                                
                                  Þe sun in his sercle was set vppon high,
                                  Line 1052 
                                
                                  Entrid into Aries vnder a signe,
                                
                                  And euyn like of a lenght þe light & þe derke.
                                
                                  Þe cloudes wax clere, clensit the ayre;
                                
                                  Wynter away, watris were calme;
                                  Line 1056 
                                
                                  Stormes were still, þe sternes full clere,
                                
                                  Ȝeforus softe wyndis Soberly blew;
                                
                                  Bowes in bright holtes buriont full faire;
                                
                                  Greuys wex grene and þe ground swete;
                                  Line 1060 
                                
                                  Swoghyng of swete ayre, Swalyng of briddes;
                                
                                  Medowes & mounteyns myngit with ffloures,
                                
                                  Colord by course as þaire kynd askit.
                                
                                  At Mid Aprille, the mone when myrthes begyn,
                                  Line 1064 
                                
                                  The season full softe of þe salt water,
                                
                                  And the bremnes abated of the brode ythes, [folio 19a]

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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 36
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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