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.

                                
                                  Therfore saintes to seche and to sere halowes,
                                
                                  And turne vnto Templis atyrit with pride,
                                
                                  Þof it be laifull to ladys and oþer les wemen,
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                                  Ȝet it ledis vnto laithnes and vnlefe werkes;
                                
                                  And shotis into shame as shene has ben ofte.
                                
                                  But þou Elan, þat haldyn was hede of all ladys,
                                
                                  And the fairest of feturs formyt in erthe,
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                                  What wrixlit þi wit & þi wille chaunget,
                                
                                  In absens of þi souerayne, for saghes of pepull,
                                
                                  To pas of þi palays & þi prise chamber,
                                
                                  To loke on any lede of a londe straunge?
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                                  Þat might faire haue refraynit with þi fre wille;
                                
                                  Haue sauyt thy septur & þi selfe alse.
                                
                                  Hade þou holdyn þe at home, hedit þin astate,
                                
                                  And not cayret fro court þere company was gedurt,
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                                  To waite aftur wondurs for a worde light.
                                
                                  Hit were sittyng for sothe, & semly for wemen,
                                
                                  Þaire houses to haunt & holde hom with in;
                                
                                  Kepe hom from company & comonyng of folke;
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                                  And, ouer all, þere onesty attell to saue,
                                
                                  Whethir a ship, þat is shot on þe shire wawes,
                                
                                  Shuld drowne in the depe, & it drye stode,
                                
                                  Halyt into havyn, harlit with ropes.
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                                  Ne a woman, I wis, þat wisely will gouerne,
                                
                                  Shall not into fame but of hir fre wille.
                                
                                  Thou dissyret full depely, dame Elan, þi seluon
                                
                                  To pas fro þi palis & þi priuey chamber,
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                                  And seche to Sytheria with solempne Avowe;
                                
                                  In colour of þi cause þou couet to se
                                
                                  Þat straunge, þat was stoute & stare hym vppon;
                                
                                  So þou light in vnlefulnes, þat lefully semyt,
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                                  Thurgh þi Licrus lust þat Lurkit in þi hert. [folio 47b] 
                                
                                  ffor þe sight of þat semely, sotheli, was venum,
                                
                                  Þat enfecte þi faire loue to þe fairist of Grise,
                                
                                  And mony Greke with grem vnto grounde broght

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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 97
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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