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 more the greuaunce is grete & to gref turnys.
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                                  If we desyre no redresse of dedis before,
                                
                                  We may boldly vs byld with bostis out of Reason.
                                
                                  Now, dere fader, in faithe of all my fre brether,
                                
                                  Non is holdyn so highly the harme for to venge,
                                  Line 2224 
                                
                                  Of my graunsers grefe so gretly as I:
                                
                                  ffor I am Eldest and heire after hym belyue,
                                
                                  And the first of vs fyue, as falles by chaunce.
                                
                                  So first will I found his fos for to greue,
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                                  And couet it by course, as comys in my hert,
                                
                                  With my body to by, and my byg strokes.
                                
                                  On right hond shall hom reue þe rest of þe saule,
                                
                                  That my graunser with greme gird vnto dethe,
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                                  And sloghe all our Sitesyns, & our sad pepull
                                
                                  Brittoned to bale dethe, and þere blode shed.
                                
                                  But faithful fader, & our fre kyng!
                                
                                  I aske of you O thing,—but angurs you noght,—
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                                  Lettis mene to your mynde at þis mene tyme,
                                
                                  And consider to oure cause with a clene wit; [folio 37a] 
                                
                                  Let oure gate be so gouernet, þat no grem folow,
                                
                                  Ne no torfer betyde, ne no tene after.
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                                  Ouer lokes all lures to the last ende,
                                
                                  What wull falle of þe first furthe to þe middis;
                                
                                  Sue forthe to þe secund, serche it with in,
                                
                                  And loke to þe last end, what lure may happyn.
                                  Line 2244 
                                
                                  Hit is no counsell to encline, ne to calle wise,
                                
                                  Ne not holsom, I hope, þat hedis to þe first,
                                
                                  And for-sees not the fer end, what may falle after.
                                
                                  What proffet any prowes with a prowde entre,
                                  Line 2248 
                                
                                  To begyn any goode, on a ground febill,
                                
                                  And fortune it faile, and haue a fowle ende?
                                
                                  Hit is wit for to wayue soche a wilde counsell,
                                
                                  And put of a purpos, þat enpaire might,
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                                  Or þat wayueris in wer what shall worthe of;

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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 74
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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