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.

                                
                                  Sum swalt in a swym with-outen sware more,
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                                  Mony perysshet in þe plase er þe prise endit.
                                
                                  The Troiens were tydé, & tid þere þe bettur,
                                
                                  And the grekes on þe ground were greatly as|toynet.
                                
                                  Þen Castor the kyng comys vpponone,
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                                  Restoris hom with strenght þat distroyet were.
                                
                                  Þen þe crie wax kene, crusshyng of wepyns,
                                
                                  And the fight so felle of þe fresshe knightes,
                                
                                  Þe Troiens were torne tynte of þere folkes.
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                                  Lamydon, þat hom led, as a lion fore,
                                
                                  Bare don mony bolde & brittonede to dethe;
                                
                                  Mony kilde the kyng to þe cold vrthe,
                                
                                  Mony woundit we from his weppont paste.
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                                  So fuersly he fore with his felle dynttes,
                                
                                  Þat þe Grekes with gremy geuyn hym way.
                                
                                  Þen Pollux aperit with pepull ynogh,
                                
                                  Brusshit into batell & moche bale wroght;
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                                  Alse wode of his wit as þe wild ffyre,
                                
                                  Mony bolde buerne on þe bent the bold king (slogh), [MS. has "shogh."] 
                                
                                  Mony turnyt with tene topsayles ouer,
                                
                                  Þat hurlet to þe hard vrthe & þere horse leuyt.
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                                  Lamydon at the laste lokit besyde,
                                
                                  Segh his folke so fare & his fos kene,
                                
                                  ffor wothe of þe worse & of weirdis feble,
                                
                                  He with-drogh hym A draght & a dyn made, [folio 21b] 
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                                  Gedrit all his gynge And his grounde held.
                                
                                  Duke Nestor Anon nemly persayuit
                                
                                  Þat he was prinse of þe pepull & þe power led,
                                
                                  He left all his ledis & a launse caght,
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                                  Launches euyn to Lamydon with a light wille.
                                
                                  Þe king consayuit his come, keppit hym swithe,
                                
                                  Ricchis his reynys & th Reenke metys:
                                
                                  Girden to-gedur with þere grete speires.

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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 41
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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