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.

                                
                                  Then carpes the kyng and his cause tellus,
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                                  Why the metyng was made at þe mene tyme: [folio 35a] 
                                
                                  ffor to serche of þe sounde & to say ferre.
                                
                                  "Now," quod the souerain, "as your assent was,
                                
                                  The man þat with message meuyt fro vs all,
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                                  By assent of my selfe, & sythen of þe lordes,—
                                
                                  He is comyn to þis courtte, as ye know wele;
                                
                                  And þe Authwart answares þat Auntrid hym þere,
                                
                                  Ys knowen to þis company be course of his tale.
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                                  Thai hede not the hething, ne þe harde greme,
                                
                                  Ne the wronges þai wroght, ne wille to amend;
                                
                                  But with sklaunder and skorne to skather agayn,
                                
                                  In þere pompe and þere pride & þere pure angur.
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                                  Our goddes with grace get vs þerfro!
                                
                                  Þat neuer vs happon so hard with hom to be spit.
                                
                                  God will noght, y wis, our wirdis enpaire,
                                
                                  Soche dedis to redresse & our dethe voide.
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                                  Let vs purpos a power pas into grese,—
                                
                                  Stir furthe with strenght, stroy of þere londes,—
                                
                                  Get my suster agayne, or sum grete other,
                                
                                  And wreke we full wele of weghes full nobill.
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                                  We are bigger in batell, haue a burghe stronge,
                                
                                  Wele wallit for þe werre, watris aboute,
                                
                                  ffew folke to defende fro a fuerse ost;
                                
                                  And are knightes in our cuntre kyddist in Armys,
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                                  ffell men to fight a full fuerse nowmber;—
                                
                                  Wele viteld, y wis, for winteris ynow,
                                
                                  Stuff of al maner store þat vs strenght may:
                                
                                  We full of defense, & no faute, haue
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                                  Help vppon yche hond highond vs to.
                                
                                  And now sothly it sittes vs, as semith to me,
                                
                                  By assent of youre selfe, & ye so wille,
                                
                                  ffor to purvey a pepull pruddest of werre,
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                                  And gird furthe into grese with a gret batell: [folio 35b]

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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 70
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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