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.

                                
                                  ffull longe, & large, louely with all,
                                
                                  And a pesable port pight full of shippes,
                                
                                  Þat comen for corne to contres aboute;
                                
                                  And because of the corne, cald was it Messan,
                                  Line 5212 
                                
                                  Þat past fro the port to prouyns o fer.
                                
                                  And sum of hit sain, & for sure holdyn,
                                
                                  Þat the Cité was so calld by a sure kyng,
                                
                                  That biggit the burgh bigly hym-seluyn, [folio 81b] 
                                  Line 5216 
                                
                                  And callid it Messan be mowthe, in mynd of his nome;
                                
                                  But Dares, in his dyting, dewly noght tellus
                                
                                  Of the Cité, for sothe, ne the selfe lond;
                                
                                  But how þo mighty were made to Messan to wende,
                                  Line 5220 
                                
                                  ffode for to fecche to þe felle ost.
                                
                                  Som othir Cicill hit sothly myght be,
                                
                                  Þat was geynde to grece, þen the grete yle,
                                
                                  Þat ferly was fer be-ȝond fele Rewmes.
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                                  Into this prouynce past þo pepull to-gedur,
                                
                                  Achilles the choise, and his chere felow,
                                
                                  With thre thowsand tristé all of þro knightes,
                                
                                  And mony shippes full shene, shot o þe depe,
                                  Line 5228 
                                
                                  Þat hit into hauyn, houyt not longe,
                                
                                  But bounet to þe bonke þo buernys anon.
                                
                                  Then the kyng of þe cuntre, with cumpany grete
                                
                                  Of fell fightyng folke, þat on fote were,
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                                  Past to þe port, þere the prinse lay.
                                
                                  The grekys, þat were gedrit & to grounde comyn,
                                
                                  With all þere cumpany clene of the cloise shippes,
                                
                                  Segh the kyng of the cuntre cum hom agayne,
                                  Line 5236 
                                
                                  With fele folke vppon fote, þat hom fray wold.
                                
                                  Þai wan to þere weppon wightly anon.
                                
                                  In defense of þe folke, þai fuersly were armyt,
                                
                                  And girden to-gedur with mony grym dyntus.
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                                  Bigge was the batell opon bothe haluys,

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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 170
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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