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 couert as a capull, all the corse ouer,
                                    
                                      ffro þe hed to þe hele, herit full thicke.
                                    
                                      His Ene flammet as the fire, or a fuerse low,
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                                      fferfull of fase, & hade a felle loke,
                                    
                                      Þat þe Grekes oft greuit & to grem broght.
                                    
                                      Mony woundit þat wegh & warpit to dethe,
                                    
                                      ffor he was boumon of the best, & bold of his dedis.
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                                      The nowmbur of þes noble men, þat I nemmyt haue,
                                    
                                      Þat come with thes kynges and other kyde Dukes,
                                    
                                      Withoute Priams pouer of his prise rewme,
                                    
                                      Were thretty thowsaund þro knightes þriuond in armys
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                                      And two, for to tell, þat to þe toune soght,
                                    
                                      ffor to comford þat kyng & his cause forþer.
                                    
                                      Syn þe world was wroght, & weghis þerin,
                                    
                                      Was neuer red in no Romans, ne in ronke bokes,
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                                      So fele fightyng folke in hor fuerse yowthe,
                                    
                                      Of knightes & clene men comyn to-gedur,
                                    
                                      Of tried men & trusty, þat to Troy come.
                                    
                                      And of the grekes, þat were gedrit in a grym ost,
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                                      Of knighthede to count þere was the clene floure,
                                    
                                      ffor to wale þurghe the world, as þe writ tellis.
                                    
                                      Wo so staris on þis story, or stodis þerin,
                                    
                                      Take hede on þe harmys & the hard lures!
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                                      What mighty were marrit, & martrid to dethe;—
                                    
                                      Of kynges, & knightes, & oþer kyde Dukes,
                                    
                                      That þaire lyues here lost for a light cause! [folio 86b] 
                                    
                                      Hit is heghly to haue, & of hert dryue
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                                      Soche sklaundur & skorne, þat skathis to mony;
                                    
                                      And mene vnto mekenes for þe more harme!

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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 180
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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