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 harmyt vs hogely with his hond one.
                                
                                  Syn he boldly with bate þis baret began,
                                
                                  Gode faithe will he first fall in his turne."
                                
                                  Þen Thelaphus tomly talkyt agayne:—
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                                  "He was a frynde to my fader, & a fyn louer,
                                
                                  Worshippit hym on allwise & his will did.
                                
                                  Hit felle me, be fortune, forwith þis tyme,
                                
                                  Into this coste for to come, vnknowen my selfe;
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                                  And he worship me worthely, & his weghes all. [folio 82b] 
                                
                                  With giftes full gay & of his gode mekyll,
                                
                                  Assignet me soueraines, sure men ynogh.
                                
                                  Hit sothely with sorow sounys to my hert,
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                                  To se þat doughty be dede & don out of lyue."
                                
                                  Þen Achilles to þat chere choisly can say:—
                                
                                  "Take hym here tyt, & tent as ye list,
                                
                                  And wirke with þat worthy, as ye wele likes."
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                                  Thus halpe he þat hynd fro hond of Achilles,
                                
                                  And dro hym fro dethe, as for þat due tyme:
                                
                                  So the batell was barly broght to an end.
                                
                                  The grekes hade þe gre & gone into ship,
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                                  And Teutra the true kyng was trust on a litter,
                                
                                  Had hom to his halle, halfe out of lyue.
                                
                                  At whose prayer, full prestly, þo prise men two
                                
                                  Wentte with þat worthy vnto his won riche,
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                                  Receyuit with reuerence & renke of astate,
                                
                                  Honouret with all men onestly & well,
                                
                                  And all daintethes hom dight dere for þe nonyst.
                                
                                  When few dayes faren were þe fre kyng Teutra
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                                  Wex weike of his wound & widrit to dethe:
                                
                                  ffeblit full fast of his fyn strenght,
                                
                                  Se his dethe on hym drogh dressit hym þerfore.
                                
                                  He sent after, sothely, þe souerain Achilles,
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                                  And Thelaphe, þat tothir, vnto his owne chaumbur.
                                
                                  When þai comen to þe kyng, þo curtes to-gedur,
                                
                                  Þen fond þai þat fre febill in his bed

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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 172
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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