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.

                                
                                  Out of Trasy þere come þe tru kyng, with a triet pepull,
                                
                                  Philon the fuerse, with fele men of armys,
                                
                                  Þat is out in the Orient, honerable faire;
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                                  And a Duke þat was derfe & of dede felle,
                                
                                  With a thousand þro men, & þrifty of hond,
                                
                                  And a hundrith hole all of his knightes.
                                
                                  Out of Payuon com prist Pricomysses the kyng,
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                                  And a Duke, þat was derfe, & his dere cosyn,
                                
                                  Þat stithe was & store, & Stupex he heght,
                                
                                  With þre thowsaund þristé, þrepond in werre.
                                
                                  ffor his kyngdom was clene clustrit with hilles,
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                                  All merkyd with mounteyns, & with mayn hylles,
                                
                                  And no playne in no place, ne plentie of vales,
                                
                                  Þere auntrid hom oft aunsware to haue
                                
                                  Of mowmenttes in þe merke, þurghe might of þe fynd,
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                                  Þat with gomes of þe ground, goddes were cald,
                                
                                  And mony meruell to mete, & mysshapon bestes.
                                
                                  Out of Beyten broght bold men two,
                                
                                  Þat were kynges in the coste, and also kyd brether,—
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                                  On Boetes, þat was bigge, & his brother Ephistrus.
                                
                                  And in hor company come knightes a thowsaund.
                                
                                  That is out in the orient the vtmast syde: [folio 85b] 
                                
                                  ffull is þat fre lond all of fyne spices.
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                                  Out of Pafflegon,—þat pight is in the playn est,
                                
                                  And is set on a syde þere þe sun ryses,
                                
                                  And so ferre out of folke, þat no freke sese,—
                                
                                  Come the richest renke, þat reigned in Erthe,
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                                  On philmene, a freke full of fyn gold,
                                
                                  Bothe of gemmes & Juellis, Joly for þe nonest,
                                
                                  Þat fonden are in Evfraton & þe flode Tyger,
                                
                                  Þat passyn out of peradis þurghe the playn Rewme.

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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 178
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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