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.

                                
                                  Thus þurgh falshed of þe fendes þe folke was dissayuit,
                                
                                  Vnder daunger of þe dule droupet full longe,
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                                  Of whose falshede & fourme in his first makyng
                                
                                  Will I somwhat say, & sithen of his falle.
                                
                                  (But þe fader, þat first fourmyt all thinge,—
                                
                                  Both the ayre, & Element, & Angells in heuyn,
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                                  Water, & wynde, & welkyn aboue,—
                                
                                  In the highest heuyn, as holy writ sais,
                                
                                  He ordant angels after his deuyse,
                                
                                  And set hom in seruice hym seluyn to honour. [folio 69a] 
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                                  But on the oddist of other ordant our lord,
                                
                                  Brightest of bemes in blisse for to dwelle.
                                
                                  Of whom the proffet of prise plainly can say,
                                
                                  Þere was no sterne in astate stode hym aboue,
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                                  Ne no pert tre in peradise apperith to hym,
                                
                                  Ne burione ne braunche to his beamys like.)
                                
                                  God fourmet hym so faire, as I fynd here,
                                
                                  Þat mony legions his light launchet aboue.
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                                  Thurgh his fairhede as fast he felle into pride,
                                
                                  When he said of hym selfe his sete he wold make
                                
                                  ffull noble in þe north, þat non shuld be here
                                
                                  Like to þe lord, þat the light made;
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                                  Euynyng in all thing euyn with hym selfe,
                                
                                  Sone he fell of his faire-hede, & fele of his peres,
                                
                                  Þat assentid to þat syn, sonkyn in fire.
                                
                                  Mony legion þere light vnto laithe fendes
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                                  With lucifer, þat lyuet in delites aboue,
                                
                                  Þat wofully welt & woundid to the dethe.
                                
                                  Thus the gospell of God of þat grym tellis,—
                                
                                  'I segh satan hym selfe slippe out of heuyn,
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                                  As þe leuenynges light, þat laches to ground.'
                                
                                  This fende was the first þat felle for his pride,
                                
                                  And lost has his lykyng, þat lyuyaton is cald.
                                
                                  And for the case is vnknowen be course to þe lewd,

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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 143
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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