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.

                                
                                  Telamon truly was a tulke full faire,
                                
                                  Blake horit, aboue breghis and other
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                                  Serklyt of hom seluyn, semly with all.
                                
                                  A Sotell man of song with mony sere notys,
                                
                                  And mellit hym with musike & myrthes also.
                                
                                  He was doughty of dedys, derfe of his hond;
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                                  Pompe and proude wordis ay þe prinse hated.
                                
                                  Ulexes the lefe kyng was loueliest of other,
                                
                                  He was the fairest by ferre of all the felle grekes,
                                
                                  And falsest in his fare, and full of disseit.
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                                  Vndertaker of treyne, of talkyng but litill,
                                
                                  Neuer myrth in his mouthe meuyt with tong:
                                
                                  Sad of his semblaundes, sober of chere. [folio 59b] 
                                
                                  And of facound fairest with a fre speche,
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                                  He hade no make of þo men in meuyng of wordys.
                                
                                  Dyamede þe doughty was a dere kyng,
                                
                                  Stronge of his stature, stithe in his armys,
                                
                                  Brode in his brest, byg in his shulders,
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                                  With a loke þat was laithe like out of wit.
                                
                                  ffals of his forward, felle of his hond,
                                
                                  A derffe man in dede, dyssirus of batell.
                                
                                  Vnsober with seruaundes, sorofull in hert,
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                                  Dredfull in dole for dissait þat he vsit.
                                
                                  Lusty to lechery, vnlell of his trouthe,
                                
                                  And mony harmes hepit for hete of his loue.
                                
                                  Off Duke Nestor to deme, doughty in werre,
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                                  He was long & large, with lemys full grete.
                                
                                  A ffreike þat was fre, and a feire speiker,
                                
                                  Wise in his wordys, witté of counsaille;
                                
                                  Tru of his trowthe, tristy to loue,
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                                  Meke of his maners malise to pese;
                                
                                  And if he walte into wrathe, wode as a lyon,
                                
                                  But he lengit not long in his lothe hate;
                                
                                  ffaithfull of frendship to frekys þat he louyt,
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                                  The hertist to helpe of all the high kynges.
                                
                                  Protheselus the pert kyng was of pure shap,

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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 123
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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