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 the bale of his brother, þus the buerne saide:—
                                
                                  "Why dreghis þou þis dole, & deris þi seluyn?
                                
                                  Lefe of þis Langore, as my lefe brother, [folio 56b] 
                                
                                  Þat puttes þe to payne and peires þi sight.
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                                  If þu has cause for to care for vnkynde werkes,
                                
                                  And with sykyng ouerset, & sorow at þi hert,
                                
                                  Hit were wit, as I wene, to were it ffro noise,
                                
                                  And fro knowyng of comyns & of course opun;
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                                  ffor a sorow þat is sene on a sib frynde,
                                
                                  Mas þe mournyng more of men þat hym luffes:
                                
                                  Mikull comfordes his care all his kene fos,
                                
                                  And engendres þaire ioy all his iuste sorow.
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                                  ffayne euer feire chere in þi felle anger.
                                
                                  Whan sorow is most sad, set all at litle;
                                
                                  Lete of it lightly, þat no lede wete,
                                
                                  Þi sorow & þi sikyng set all at noght.
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                                  And in maters þat meuys þe with might for to stir,
                                
                                  There is no worship in weping, ne in wan teres;
                                
                                  But desyre þi redresse all with derfe strokis:
                                
                                  With þi swerde is to swinke & not with swym thoghtes.
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                                  ffor in sorow may be sene who is sad wise;
                                
                                  ffull propurly to preue in his pale angre,
                                
                                  When hym comys by course contrary thinges;—
                                
                                  He þat opressit not with payne his prinsepall wittes,
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                                  Ne ouersettes not his saule with sorow full hoge.
                                
                                  Þerfore wackon þi wille into wight dedis,
                                
                                  And þere as sikyng & sorow slees the within,
                                
                                  Þat þe harme þat þou has, and hethyng with all,
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                                  Pas noght vnponisshed for pité ne other,
                                
                                  But þe dedes þat vs deirus be full dere boght.
                                
                                  Þerfore sobbyng & sorow ses at þis tyme,

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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 117
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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