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.

                                    
                                      ffyfté shippes fyn, full of folke all,
                                    
                                      Of Deymon duly, his owne dere londe.
                                    
                                      Kyng Sapmon for sothe soght fro þat hauyn,
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                                      With alsmony abill shippes auntrid hym seluyn,
                                    
                                      Þat Capidoise cald is, the cuntre so hat.
                                    
                                      Theorius, a tryet kyng, toke fro his Rewme,
                                    
                                      And broght of his brode londe, þat Boisa is callid,
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                                      Two & thretty thried shippes þrast full of pepull.
                                    
                                      And when thies souerauns were somyn, sothely to telle,
                                    
                                      Of kynges full kene, & of kyde Dukes,
                                    
                                      The sowme for to set was sexty & nene.
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                                      The nowmber of the noble shippes, þat to þe note yode,
                                    
                                      ffor to telle hom by tale, was truly a thowsaund
                                    
                                      Twa hundrethe & twenty, & twelue o þe last,
                                    
                                      Without Palomydon þe proude, þat preset hom after
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                                      With a nauy full noble;— Nawlus son the grete.
                                    
                                      When thes graidly were gedret, & gird into hauyn,
                                    
                                      Þen come þai to counsell, as I shall kythe after.

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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 134
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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