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.

                                
                                  The king share thrugh his shild with þe sharpe ende,
                                
                                  And the rod all-to roofe right to his honde;
                                
                                  The Duke had dyed of þe dynt doutles anon,
                                
                                  But the souerayn hym-seluon was surly enarmyt,
                                  Line 1236 
                                
                                  And the kyng with the caupe caste to þe ground,
                                
                                  With a warchand wounde thurgh his wedis all.
                                
                                  He feynyt not for þe fall ne þe felle hurtte,
                                
                                  But stert vp stithly, straght out a swerde
                                  Line 1240 
                                
                                  And flange at the freike with a ffyn wille.
                                
                                  A ȝonge knight and a ȝepe, ȝyueris of hert,
                                
                                  High[t] Sedar for sothe, suet to þe Duke
                                
                                  With a bir on þe brest, þat backeward he ȝode,
                                  Line 1244 
                                
                                  And fuersly of his foole fell to þe grounde.
                                
                                  Þe king fayne of þe falle and þe freke segh,
                                
                                  And bare to þe bolde with a bigge sworde.
                                
                                  The bourder of his basnet brestes in sonder,
                                  Line 1248 
                                
                                  And videt the viser with a vile dynt,
                                
                                  Gaffe hym a great wounde in his grete face.
                                
                                  He hade slayne hym slighly for sleght þat he couth,
                                
                                  But a gret nowmbur of Grekes gedrit hym vmbe,
                                  Line 1252 
                                
                                  And put hym fro purpas þof þai payn þolit:
                                
                                  Þai hurlet hym fro horse fete & of hond toke,
                                
                                  Set hym in his sadill þof he vnsound were.
                                
                                  Castor the king conceyuit beliue,
                                  Line 1256 
                                
                                  That Nestor with noy was nolpit to ground,
                                
                                  He Richet his Reynes and his roile stroke, [folio 22a] 
                                
                                  Suet vnto Sedar with a sore wepyn,
                                
                                  To deyre hym with a dynt for þe Dukes sake.
                                  Line 1260 
                                
                                  And er he come to the king, so his course fell,
                                
                                  One caupet with hym kenely, a cosyn of Sedars,
                                
                                  And set hym a sad dynt, Secorda he high[t]:
                                
                                  His shafte all-to sheuerit the shalke was unhurt,
                                  Line 1264 
                                
                                  And Castor in the caupyng the knight euyll wondyt,

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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 42
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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