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.

                                
                                  Caste ancres full kene with cables to grounde;
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                                  ffestonit the flete, as hom fayre thoght;
                                
                                  Buskys into botys, were borne to þe lond,
                                
                                  To solas hom a season, as hom selfe liked;
                                
                                  And waited vppon hor wirdes for wynnyng of godys.
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                                  In Sythera, for sothe, was a solempne tempull,
                                
                                  Of Venus, I wis, þat worthy was holdyn,
                                
                                  ffoundet before, fele yeres past,
                                
                                  And enabit of old þere auntres were sene.
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                                  With Riches full Rife & myche Ranke godys,
                                
                                  The yle well enabit & onest with in,
                                
                                  And lyuet after law of þe lell gentils,
                                
                                  Þat Venus the worthy worshippit for god,
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                                  And most honouret of other with onesté þere.
                                
                                  There auntered hom oft, onsware to haue,
                                
                                  When þai put hom with prayer þat prise for to seche.
                                
                                  Thus tyd hit þat tyme, as I telle wille,
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                                  Þat the principall & prise fest of þere pure goddys
                                
                                  Was holdyn þo high dayes with hom þat þere dwelt;
                                
                                  And other folke vpon fer fell thedur thicke,
                                
                                  With mykull prese of pepull of prouynce aboute,
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                                  Soght to þat solenité sacrifis to make.
                                
                                  Worthy wemen to wale, wete ye forsothe,
                                
                                  Þat prist are of pilgrymes to pas ouer lond
                                
                                  To waite after wondres, & wilfull desyre
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                                  More Janglyng of Japes þen any Juste werkes,
                                
                                  And for solas & sight þen sacrifice to do.
                                
                                  When parys persayuit had the pepull anon,
                                
                                  He cacchis a compony clenely arayed,
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                                  And to the tempull full tyte toke he þe gate.
                                
                                  ffull mylde on his maner meuit within. [folio 46a] 
                                
                                  On a side he hym set, as semyt for a straungior,
                                
                                  In prayers full prist the pepull beheld.

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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 94
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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