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.

                                
                                  And all the shalkes to ship with the shene godes,
                                
                                  Þai past fro þat port with pillage þai hade,
                                
                                  And turnyt vnto tenydon, taryt no lengur.
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                                  Þere arof all the rowte with þere Ranke shippes,
                                
                                  Cast ancres with cables þat kene were of byt;
                                
                                  Let sailes doune slide; slippit into botes;
                                
                                  ffestnet with fuerse Ropis the flete in þe hauyn;
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                                  And buskit vnto banke, the boldist ay first.
                                
                                  At this tenydon truly was a tried castell,
                                
                                  Wele wroght for the werre with walles full stronge;
                                
                                  Evyn fild full of folke, fuerse men & noble,
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                                  And Riches full Rife, Ranke men with in;
                                
                                  Wele viteld, I-wisse, for winturs ynoghe.
                                
                                  (Hit was sothely but sex myle fro the Cité euyn,
                                
                                  As I told haue tomly in a tale here before.)
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                                  The folke in þat fuerse hold were ferde of hom selfe,
                                
                                  Arait hom full radly, right to the werre.
                                
                                  In defense of hor fos, þat on flete lay,
                                
                                  Wenton out wightly wale men of armys,
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                                  And bateld hom on the banke as hom best thught.
                                
                                  When the Grekes were gethurt & to ground comen,
                                
                                  Mony fightyng folke in a fuerse nowmbur,
                                
                                  The pepull with hor power put hom agayne,
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                                  And foght with hom felly, þof þai few were.
                                
                                  Bold was þat biker opon bothe haluys.
                                
                                  Mony deid by-dene of the derfe grekes;
                                
                                  And Troiens with tene tynt of hor pepull,
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                                  But not so fele at þe first as of the ferre side.
                                
                                  The Grekes full greatly greuyt þerat,
                                
                                  Oppresset hom with payne & preset þereafter;
                                
                                  ffought full felly, and fele were þere þai sláyne:
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                                  Of the Troiens þat tyme tynt were þe mo.
                                
                                  The fresshe was so felle of the furse grekes, [folio 74a]

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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 153
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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