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.

                                
                                  If ye deme it in dede, Dukes and other,
                                
                                  Þat we mightily to Messam our men send,
                                
                                  To fecche vs som fode, or we firre passe.
                                
                                  In þat prouyns is plenty all of prise vitell,
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                                  Of corne, & of catell, & mony kyd Rewme;
                                
                                  Þerfore, sone let vs send sum of our folke,
                                
                                  Worthy to wale, & wise of hor dedis,
                                
                                  To trie of the trewist, & turne into ship,
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                                  And set furth to the se with soudiours ynow,
                                
                                  Pas to þat prouyns, prese to þe londe,
                                
                                  And make puruiaunce plentie, while prese lastis,
                                
                                  That may cum vs, by course, to comford our ost, [folio 81a] 
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                                  And abundantly broght with buernes betwene,
                                
                                  ffor to stall our astate and our strenght hold."
                                
                                  When þis counsell was kyd, he carpis no ferr,
                                
                                  Was alowet with the lordis, & all þe ledis after.
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                                  By assent of þo souerains, & sithen of all,
                                
                                  Achilles was chosyn chefe of þis erend;
                                
                                  And Thelephus, þat tother, ton to his fere,
                                
                                  Was Ercules aune son eldist for sothe.
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                                  Þes assignet for þe se, with soudiours ynogh,
                                
                                  And fuerse men in fight a felle nowmber:
                                
                                  Þes drest for þe dede and droghen to ship,
                                
                                  And merkit vnto Messam with a mekyll nauy.
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                                  In þat yle was onest, an honerable kyng,
                                
                                  As men told in his tyme, and Teutras his name,
                                
                                  Þat his countre in kuit hade keppit full longe,
                                
                                  And regnit in rest with riches ynogh.
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                                  He hade fightyng folke fele of his owne,
                                
                                  And knightes full kene, & konyng of werre.
                                
                                  Sum sain it for sothe, and for sure holdyn,
                                
                                  The same yle I said you, Cicill is calt,
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                                  Ay abundand of blisse, & bret full of vitaill,
                                
                                  And menyt was with men Messan to nome;
                                
                                  ffor a cité in the same lond so gat was cald,
                                
                                  Bild on a banke at a brode hauyn,

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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 169
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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