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 wyn hom in wer with weppon in fight.
                                
                                  Neuer buerne will vs blame, ne ban for our dede,
                                
                                  Ne wegh will vs wite to þe worldes end.
                                  Line 4936 
                                
                                  Ses now, your seluyn, my saghis vnto,
                                
                                  And deuys of þis dede as you dere think."
                                
                                  When the souerain hade said, þen sesit he here,
                                
                                  And mony of þo mighty menyt þer agayn,
                                  Line 4940 
                                
                                  Noght semond, þai said, ne sittyng to do;
                                
                                  And part of þat pepull prouyt hit for wit;
                                
                                  And o sithin, all samyn assentid þerto.
                                
                                  Two chere men þai chese on þis choise erend,—
                                  Line 4944 
                                
                                  (Onest & abell Vlexes was one,
                                
                                  And Dyamede, þe derfe kyng demyt þat other)—
                                
                                  Aionet to þis iornay iustly to-gedre.
                                
                                  Stiden vpon stithe horse stird to the Cité,
                                  Line 4948 
                                
                                  And wenton in wightly þo worthy hom seluon.
                                
                                  Entred into Elion, þat honerable Palis,
                                
                                  Lightyn at the low, leftyn þaire horses,
                                
                                  Gone vp by the greses all of gray marbill,
                                  Line 4952 
                                
                                  Hit into the halle of the high kynge.
                                
                                  Hade meruell full mekull of þat mayne place,
                                
                                  Of the walles þat wroght were wondurly faire,
                                
                                  With high toures full torrit all the toun vmbe.
                                  Line 4956 
                                
                                  Yet meruelt hom more ymyddes the halle
                                
                                  Was a tre, þat was tried, all of tru gold,
                                
                                  Meruelous & mekyll men to be-hold.
                                
                                  The bole was of bright gold, bret to þe myddes,
                                  Line 4960 
                                
                                  Largior þen a lawriall & lengur with all,
                                
                                  (xij cubettes by course all of clene heght)
                                
                                  Þat fourmyt was full faire to þe fre boghes.
                                
                                  The brede of his bowes borly to se, [folio 77b] 
                                  Line 4964 
                                
                                  Large and longe, (light as the sun)
                                
                                  ffro the dese to the dorse doblit on brede
                                
                                  And the sydys, by a sercle of þe same hall.
                                
                                  The braunches were borly, sum of bright gold,
                                  Line 4968 
                                
                                  Sum syluer for sothe, semlist of hew;

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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 161
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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