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.

                                
                                  Doughty of dede, derfe men in Armys.
                                
                                  Assemble you soudiours, sure men & nobill,
                                
                                  Shapyn in shene ger, with shippis to wynde,
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                                  The Grekys to greue, & in grem brynge."
                                
                                  Þan þai lacchyn hor leue,—lowton hor kyng,—
                                
                                  Cayren forthe to þe coste, & hor course helde.
                                
                                  Assemblit soudiours anon, mony sad hundrith;
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                                  And lengit while þem list, þe lond was þere owne.
                                
                                  The secund day, sothely, for to say ferre,
                                
                                  When he his sons herde, he somond his lordes
                                
                                  And all the knightes to come, & clene men of wit,
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                                  To appere in his presens a purpos to take.
                                
                                  When þe souerain was set with sere lordes vmbe,
                                
                                  Then carpes the kyng his knightes vntill.
                                
                                  "Now, lordes of my lond, & lege pepull!
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                                  The case is well knowen to your clene mynde,
                                
                                  How þe Grekes vs greuit, & to ground broght,
                                
                                  And put vs, with hor pride, to pouerte full low.
                                
                                  Of our souerans & sib men seruondis to be,
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                                  Ay hengis in my hert þe hethyng I thole;
                                
                                  Of my Suster in seruage, & in syn holdyn,
                                
                                  Hit meuys into mynd, & mekill me noyes;
                                
                                  And I sothely haue sent, as ye see all,
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                                  Antenor to aske hir, & Angur no more.
                                
                                  He hade not of hom but hethyng & skorne,
                                
                                  Grete wordis & gref, & moche grym þrete;
                                
                                  Þat doublis my dole, & to dethe bryngis.
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                                  Now woundys shalbe wroght, weghes to sorow,
                                
                                  And dyntes full dedly for þe dere sake.
                                
                                  I haue purpast Parys with prise men ynow,
                                
                                  Into Grese for to go, & hom to greme;
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                                  Kylle of hor knightes, knocke hom to dethe; [folio 42a] 
                                
                                  Grype of hor godes, and agayne wyn.
                                
                                  Hit may chefe hym by chaunce to get som choise lady,

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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 85
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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