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.

                                
                                  Þan a sorow full sodenly sanke in his hert,
                                
                                  A Remorec of maters, þat hym mys lyket;
                                
                                  How þe Grekes hym greuyt and to ground put,
                                
                                  His fader & his fryndis ferkit out of lyue,
                                  Line 1700 
                                
                                  And his suster into seruage, þat hym sore noyet. [folio 29a] 
                                
                                  Then he somond all þe Cite vppon sere haluys,
                                
                                  To a counsell to come for a cause hegh,
                                
                                  And his wille for to wete as hom wele aght.
                                  Line 1704 
                                
                                  When the grete were gedurt & þo graithe all,
                                
                                  With his semly sonnes, þat hym sate next,
                                
                                  Saue Ector,—was oute, as aunter befelle,
                                
                                  In a countre by coursse þat of þe coron helde,
                                  Line 1708 
                                
                                  Assignet by his souerayne & certen hym with,
                                
                                  ffor play or for purpos:—pas we þerfro.
                                
                                  When þe souerayne was set in a sete rioll,
                                
                                  As become for a kyng in counsell with lordes;
                                  Line 1712 
                                
                                  All pese vmbe þe plase, pepull were stille,
                                
                                  Be comaundement of þe kyng, as be come well;
                                
                                  Þen he menyt of þe mater all with mylde wordes,
                                
                                  And touchet his entent, as I telle shall.—
                                  Line 1716 
                                
                                  "Now lordys of my lond & other lefe pepull,
                                
                                  Hit is knowen to þis court and oþer kyd fryndes,
                                
                                  Of þe harmys þat we haue, & þe hoge lose;
                                
                                  That the Grekes in horgremþ vs to grefe broght,—
                                  Line 1720 
                                
                                  Bothe to me & to myne mykull vnright,
                                
                                  And to yow & also yours ȝomeryng for euer.
                                
                                  How our faders before falsly were slayne,
                                
                                  And my suster Exiona in seruage is holdyn,
                                  Line 1724 
                                
                                  Þat is comen of soche kyn, coldes my hert;
                                
                                  Your susters for sothe & oþer sib fryndes,
                                
                                  Wyues & wale children, þai away led,
                                
                                  Þat ben set vnder seruage & sorow for ay.
                                  Line 1728 
                                
                                  And our Cite for sothe, þat sum tyme was here,
                                
                                  Brent & betyn downe to þe bare vrthe;
                                
                                  Our golde & our godys gripped in hond;
                                
                                  Robbet our riches, our renttes distroyet;

                                  Line 1732

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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 57
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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