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.

                                
                                  Within the Cite full Solempne of a sete riall,
                                
                                  Louely and large to logge in hym seluyn,
                                
                                  ffull worthely wroght & by wit caste,
                                  Line 1632 
                                
                                  And euyn at his etlyng Ylion was cald;
                                
                                  Closit with a clene wall crustrit with towres,
                                
                                  Euyn round as a ryng richely wroght,—
                                
                                  ffyue hundrith fete fully the heght:—
                                  Line 1636 
                                
                                  Withoute, toures full tore torret aboue, [folio 28a] 
                                
                                  Þat were of heght so hoge, as I here fynde,
                                
                                  Þat the clowdes hom clede in vnclene ayre.
                                
                                  In þe heghest to houe and beholde ouer,
                                  Line 1640 
                                
                                  All the lond for to loke when hym lefe thought.
                                
                                  To all the prouyns þai apperit & pertis ofer,
                                
                                  With mekyll solas to se in mony syde londis:
                                
                                  Of crafty colours to know, all in course set,
                                  Line 1644 
                                
                                  Made all of marbyll with mason deuyse,
                                
                                  With ymagry full honest openly wroght.
                                
                                  In cornols by course clustret o lofte.
                                
                                  The windowes, worthely wroght in a mesure,
                                  Line 1648 
                                
                                  Shapyn full shene all of shyre stones,
                                
                                  Caruen in Cristall by crafte of Entaile,
                                
                                  Pight into pilers prudly to shewe
                                
                                  The bases & bourdurs all of bright perle.
                                  Line 1652 
                                
                                  Within this palis of prise was a proude halle,
                                
                                  Þat large was of lenght & louely to shewe,
                                
                                  Painted full prudly with pure gold ouer,
                                
                                  Drapred by dene with a dese riall.
                                  Line 1656 
                                
                                  There were bordis full bright aboute in þat sale,
                                
                                  Set in a sercle, of Sedur tre fyn,
                                
                                  Gret vp fro þe ground vppon gray marbill.
                                
                                  With a flore þat was fret all of fyne stones,
                                  Line 1660 
                                
                                  Pauyt prudly all with proude colours,
                                
                                  Made after musycke, men on to loke.
                                
                                  In the cheffe of þe choise halle, chosen for þe kyng,
                                
                                  Was a grounde vp graid with gresis of Marbill,

                                  Line 1664

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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 55
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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