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.

                                
                                  Ay boun to the banke, when hom best thoght,
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                                  ffor to light on þe londe, & leng on hor ese.
                                
                                  Now it felle hom by fortune, as þai fere so,
                                
                                  Monolay for to mete, the mightiest of Grese,
                                
                                  Come sayland by syde & the see held;
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                                  Purpost vnto Pyle by prayer of Nestor, [MS. has Pire] 
                                
                                  To solas hym a season, & soiourne with the Duke.
                                
                                  This Menelay, þat I mene, the mighty before,
                                
                                  To Agamenon the graithe was a gay brother;
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                                  And had weddit, I wis, & to wif held
                                
                                  Elan, þat afturward angert hym sore.
                                
                                  Of hir feirehede & feturs is ferly to here,
                                
                                  I shall telle you, when I tyme haue, tomly her|aftur.
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                                  Ho was suster for sothe, as I said ere,
                                
                                  To Pollux the pert kyng, & his pere Castor,
                                
                                  Þat soiournet the same tyme at the Cite Emscor,
                                
                                  As legis in hor owne londes, a louely hom with,—
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                                  Ermonia, a Maydon þat þai moche louyt,—
                                
                                  A doghter full dere of dame Elan the quene.
                                
                                  When the Grekes se the grete nauy, þai girdon o rowme,
                                
                                  And meuyt fro þere metyng at the mene tyme.
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                                  Nawther company by course hade Kennyng of other,
                                
                                  But past to þere purpos & no prise made,
                                
                                  And sailet vpon syde vnto sere costys.
                                
                                  Parys and his pepull past by the stremys,
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                                  Hadyn wynd at hor wille, & the wedur calme,
                                
                                  And sailet to Sithera, and set into hauyn;
                                
                                  A ground of the Grekes, as hom grase felle,
                                
                                  And now cald is, by course, of hom þat costes hauntyn,
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                                  Sytrinos forsothe, with Sailers to nome. [folio 45b] 
                                
                                  There arofe all the rowte, as þai rede toke,
                                
                                  And halit into hauyn, & houyt full stille;

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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 93
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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