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.

                                
                                  Mengit with mesure in hir mylde face
                                
                                  To the lippus full luffly, as by lyn wroght,
                                
                                  Made of a meane vmb þe mowthe swete,
                                
                                  As it were coruyn by crafte, colourd with honde,
                                  Line 3052 
                                
                                  Proporcionet pertly with painteres deuyse.
                                
                                  To telle of hir tethe þat tryetly were set,
                                
                                  Alse qwyte & qwem as any qwalle bon;
                                
                                  Wele cumpast in cours & clenly to gedur
                                  Line 3056 
                                
                                  By rule in þe rede gomys, as a rose faire,
                                
                                  Þat with lefes of þe lylly were lappit by twene.
                                
                                  Hir chyn full choise was the chekys benethe,
                                
                                  With a dympull full derne, daynté to se.
                                  Line 3060 
                                
                                  In the hew of þat hend was a hegh ioye
                                
                                  Of faiernes so fele in hir face shewide.
                                
                                  The slote of hir slegh brest sleght for to showe,
                                
                                  As any cristall clere, þat clene was of hewe,
                                  Line 3064 
                                
                                  Shene for to shew & of shap noble.
                                
                                  With a necke for þe nonest of naturs deuyse,
                                
                                  Glissonand as the glemes þat glenttes of þe snaw;
                                
                                  Nawþer fulsom, ne fat, but fetis & round,
                                  Line 3068 
                                
                                  ffull metely made of a meane lenght.
                                
                                  With shulders full shaply, shenest of hewe,
                                
                                  ffull pleasaund & playn, with a plase lawe
                                
                                  Goyng downe as a goter fro the gorge euyn.
                                  Line 3072 
                                
                                  Hir armys were auenaund & abill of shap,
                                
                                  Large of a lenght, louely to shewe.
                                
                                  Hir hondes fetis & faire, with fingurs full small, [folio 49a] 
                                
                                  With nailes at the neþer endes as a nepe white.
                                  Line 3076 
                                
                                  The brede of hir brest, bright on to loke,
                                
                                  Was pleasaund & playne pluttide a litull,
                                
                                  ffresshe and of fyne hew as þe fome clere:
                                
                                  With two propur pappes, as a peire rounde,
                                  Line 3080 
                                
                                  ffetis and faire, of fauour full swete.
                                
                                  Hir corse [was] comly & of clene shap,
                                
                                  Euyn metely made of a medill deuyse,
                                
                                  As nobly to þe nethur-most as nature cold shape.

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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 100
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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