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.

                                
                                  Is not the cause of your comyng with company grete,
                                
                                  To turne vnto Troy, þat you tenit has,
                                
                                  And are opunly your enmys, & euermore you noies?
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                                  Why tary ye so tomly, & turnys not furthe?
                                
                                  And are redy to þe rode, & restis þus lenge?
                                
                                  Þere-as all thing is ordant, hit angris to abide,
                                
                                  Or tary ouer a tyme, when tulkes ben redy.
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                                  Ne hope ye not highly, þat here are sum fals,
                                
                                  And aspies your spede with spit þat þai may,
                                
                                  To write to þat wale kyng your werkes by-den?
                                
                                  Þis fenyond fare is forthoryng to hom,
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                                  To assemble on yche syde soudiours ynogh,
                                
                                  And fret hom with fryndes þere fos to withstond,
                                
                                  Of kynges & knightes in contres abowte;
                                
                                  Syn ye haue tarit ouer tyme tomly at home,
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                                  And noght hastid with harme your hething to wenge.
                                
                                  Ye shuld haue soght to þe Cité sone oponone!
                                
                                  Mony wekes are went & þis wale somur,
                                
                                  And monythes full meuyt of þe mylde aire,
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                                  Of seasonable sailyng of þe salt water,
                                
                                  Syn winter was went & windes were lithe;
                                
                                  The course of the colde see calmyt with all,
                                
                                  Ȝeforus with softe wyndes soberly blew,
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                                  Planettes in the pure aire pullishet full clene,
                                
                                  And all softe was the see to sailers þerin.
                                
                                  Why leng ye so long & lose all this tyme, [folio 72a] 
                                
                                  When ye might soberly haue sailet, & set on your fos,
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                                  And haue flayet the freikes with your felle hast?
                                
                                  When tythandes hade ben tolde of soche a tore pepull,
                                
                                  Hit wold haue noyet hom anon þe nombur to here.
                                
                                  Thoche tarying ouer tyme turnys hom to ioy,
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                                  And hertis hom highly to hold you for faint.

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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 149
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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