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.

                                
                                  Then the se wex sober, sesit the wyndis;
                                
                                  Calme was the course, clensit the aire;
                                
                                  The derke ouerdrogh, & the dym voidet;
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                                  The bremnes abatid; blusshit the sun.
                                
                                  Hade wedur at þaire wille, wentton to ship,
                                
                                  And past fro þat port the pepull in fere;
                                
                                  Halit to the high se in a hond while;
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                                  Sailit on soundly as hom self list,
                                
                                  Tyll þai comyn to the cost & countre of Troy;
                                
                                  And þere hyt into hauyn as hom happe felle,
                                
                                  Vnder a castell of þe cuntre, þat cald was Saracbla.
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                                  There þai fastnet the flete & the furse shippes,
                                
                                  Cachit hom with cables & castyng of ancres,
                                
                                  And logget hom to lenge in þat le hauyn.
                                
                                  The kepars of the castell caghten þere armys,
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                                  Wentten out wightly the water to kepe;
                                
                                  Bowet to the bonke in hor bright geire.
                                
                                  To put of þat pepull pristly þai wend,
                                
                                  And foryn as folis; for þai but few were.
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                                  Þai with stode hom a stoure but it stad litle.
                                
                                  The folke were so fele, þat felle to the londe,
                                
                                  Armyt at all peces, angarly mony,
                                
                                  The troiens þai tokyn & tirnyt to dethe,
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                                  And fell to the flight in fere to the castell.
                                
                                  But the Grekes on þe grounde grymly pursueyt,
                                
                                  Swappit hom with swordes till the swalt all.
                                
                                  Comyn to the castell, (vnclose were the yatis,
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                                  The cuntremen for to kepe as þai cum wold,)
                                
                                  The Grekes Ingird, gripped the warders,
                                
                                  And all the fonnet folke fell to the dethe;
                                
                                  Slogh hom doune sleghly, slang hom to ground;
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                                  Robbit þere riches, raght to þere shippes. [folio 73b] 
                                
                                  Wonen to the walles, walt hom to ground;
                                
                                  Betyn doune the buyldynges to the bare erthe;
                                
                                  Tokyn the tresure; turnyt into hauyn.
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                                  When þis castell was caght, kylled the pepull,

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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 152
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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