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.

                                
                                  An delited hir deply in dedis of charité.
                                
                                  Andromaca, auenonde abill of person,
                                
                                  Worthy Ector wyfe, was a we faire.
                                
                                  Long body hade the burdde, bright of hir colour.
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                                  Ho was mesurably made, as þe mylke white.
                                
                                  Hir ene flamyng fresshe, as any fyne stones.
                                
                                  Rud as þe Roose roikede in hir chekes.
                                
                                  Hir lippes were louely littid with rede.
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                                  Gilde hores hade þat gay, godely to se.
                                
                                  Most onest of other euer in hir tyme,
                                
                                  And all hir dedis full duly done by a mesure.
                                
                                  Cassandra the clere was a Clene Maydon, [folio 62b] 
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                                  Semely of a Sise, as the silke white,
                                
                                  Womonly wroght, waike of hir colour,
                                
                                  Godely of gouernaunce, and gleyit a litle.
                                
                                  Of wemen werkes wilnet ho none,
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                                  Most was hir mynde hir maidonhede to kepe.
                                
                                  Mony cas for to cum ho be course wiste,
                                
                                  By artys of astronomy, & ame of hir wit,—
                                
                                  By staryng on the sternys thurgh hir stithe lore.
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                                  Polexena the pert was prise of all other,
                                
                                  Of feturs & fourme the fairest on lyue;
                                
                                  ffull tendur of hir tyme, triet of hewe.
                                
                                  Of hir fairnes fele may no freike telle,
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                                  Ne no wegh has wit ne wordys þerfore,
                                
                                  ffor to labur so longe of hir lefe shap;
                                
                                  But truly I telle as þe text sais,
                                
                                  Ho was of bewte aboue all borne in hir tyme,
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                                  To wale þurgh the world of wemen bydene,
                                
                                  Alse noble for þe nonest as natur cold deuyse,
                                
                                  To paint in yche place thurgh his pure study,
                                
                                  (Þat errit not in anythyng of abilté þer,
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                                  Saue he demyt hir dedly, when hir day come.)
                                
                                  And ay cheriste hir chastité with a choise wille,
                                
                                  To þat abundaunse of bewte ho was best norisshed.
                                
                                  Witté to wale, wantid no thewes;

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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 129
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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