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.

                                
                                  Þat leuit in any londe, & a litle he stotid.
                                
                                  This prinse with his pure strenght plainly auer|come
                                
                                  All Auntres in Armys, þat he euer raght:
                                
                                  Non so stuerne þat withstode a stroke of his honde.
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                                  He was massy & mekull, made for þe nonest,
                                
                                  Neuer Troy no tyme soche a tulke bred,
                                
                                  So graithe, ne so good, ne of so gret myght.
                                
                                  Ruly & rightwise, a roghe man of hors,
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                                  He spake neuer dispituosly, ne spiset no man;
                                
                                  Ne warpit neuer worde of wrang with his mowthe.
                                
                                  Ne sagh, þat was vnsemond, slipped hym fro,
                                
                                  But ay meke as a maydon, & mylde of his speche.
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                                  Neuer hatfull to hym to hygh into batell,
                                
                                  Neuer wery of þat werke, ne of wegh fferde,
                                
                                  He swat neuer for þat swynke, ne in swayme felle. [folio 61a] 
                                
                                  Was neuer red in no Romanse of Renke vpon erthe
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                                  So well louyt with all ledys, þat in his lond dwelt.
                                
                                  Parys was pure faire, and a pert knighte;
                                
                                  Here huet on his hede as haspis of silke,
                                
                                  And in sighkyng it shone as the shyre golde.
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                                  He was bowman O þe best, bolde with a speire,
                                
                                  A wilde man to wale, wode on his fos;
                                
                                  ffull siker at asaye, & a sad knight,
                                
                                  Of hunters he was hede, & hauntyd it ofte.
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                                  Deffebus was doughty & derfe of his hond,
                                
                                  The þrid son of þe sute, & his sure brother
                                
                                  Elenus, the eldist euyn after hym.
                                
                                  Þo freikes were fourmet of feturs [a]like,
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                                  Bothe of hyde & of hew to hede of a mykell;
                                
                                  ffor, to loke on þe ledys with a light egh,

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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 126
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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