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.

                                
                                  And to aunter on our Enmys with armes in werre,
                                
                                  Our Knighthode to Kythe, & our clene strenght;
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                                  And mene vs with monhode maistry to wyn.
                                
                                  Wetis all wele: & you wont oght,
                                
                                  Or any case to you come comford to haue,
                                
                                  To be suppoueld by selfe & my sad helpe.
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                                  And if it falle you be fortune to forther your wille,
                                
                                  My Syster to sese, or any sure lady,
                                
                                  Ye haue shall my helpe & my hole strenght,
                                
                                  To pas with a power to þaire playne londys,
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                                  Þat all the dayens vs doute shall for our derfe strokes,
                                
                                  And be war vs to wrathe to þe worldes end.
                                
                                  Prinse of þis pouer Parys shalbe,
                                
                                  And leder of these ledys & the lefe pepull;
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                                  And Deffebus, my dere son, I dem hym þe next;
                                
                                  With counsell & comford of clene men of wit,—
                                
                                  Of Antenor, & Eneas, & other full noble,
                                
                                  Þat fare shall in fere & feliship to gedur."
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                                  When the Kyng hade declarit all his clene wille,
                                
                                  Than entrid the oste evyn into shippe.
                                
                                  Paris with pyne, & his pure brother,
                                
                                  Toke leue at þere lege with loutyng & teris;
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                                  Shot into ship with shene men of Armys;
                                
                                  Lauset loupis fro the le; lachyn in Ancres;
                                
                                  Brode sailes vp braid; bonkis þai leuyt.
                                
                                  With Jono, the Juste god Joynet to þe see,
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                                  And Venus the worthy, þat hom well plesit,
                                
                                  Thay sailed furth soundly with seasonable wyndes,
                                
                                  Tyll þai comyn of the cost of Caucleda in spase:—
                                
                                  Of the regione of Rene, & rode þere in havyn. [folio 45a] 
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                                  Gayn vnto Grese on þe gray water,
                                
                                  By the Regions of Rene rode þai ferre,
                                
                                  Streit by the stremys of the stithe londys;

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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 92
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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