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 let you be led vnto this lond hydur,
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                                  Þat suche a chaunge shuld you chefe to a choise febill;
                                
                                  And don fro delites depely to angur,
                                
                                  Noght abundonet in blis ne blithe in your hert?
                                
                                  Trowe ye not Troy is tore of all godis,
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                                  As plaintiouse in yche place as þe prouynse of Achaia,
                                
                                  At is doublit of delitis & druris at all?
                                
                                  Ne trawes not, tru lady, þat I take wolde
                                
                                  Thy ladyship to losse, ne in lust holde.
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                                  Thou shalt haue riches more Rife, & Ranker of godis,
                                
                                  Þan any lady in þi land, leue me for sothe;
                                
                                  And more likandly lyf & þi lust haue,
                                
                                  Bothe in weile & in worship, as a wee noble.
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                                  And me, þat am mete & of more power
                                
                                  Þen hym þat þou hade and held for þi lorde,
                                
                                  Wyuly to weld; & I the wed shall,
                                
                                  To lede with þi lyf as a leale spouse.
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                                  This I purpos me plainly in pleasauns of goddes,
                                
                                  Vnder Sacramen solempne, your souerain to be;
                                
                                  And so lede þe with likyng to my lyues end.
                                
                                  Suppos not þi seluyn, ne for sothe holde,
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                                  Þof þou left haue a litle lond lightly at home,
                                
                                  Þat þou ne hertely shall haue here a well larger,
                                
                                  And þi chaunge to chefe choisly the bettur;
                                
                                  Syn Asia is auenond of yles ynow,
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                                  Þat are attendant to Troy with tresour ynogh,
                                
                                  Þat obey þe shall bainly, & bow to þi wille.
                                
                                  Ne for þe mysse of þi maister make þou no sorow,
                                
                                  That neuer yet of nobley An euenyng to me,
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                                  Ne of dedis so doughti þe dayes in his lyue,
                                
                                  Ne so luffly to a lady with lokyng at egh.
                                
                                  And I in longing am Laght & Lappit full sore [folio 53b] 
                                
                                  With hete of þi hegh loue, þat my hert warmys;

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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 109
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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