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.

                                
                                  How the fflete of þere fos fell to þe bonke,
                                
                                  And armyt hom [at] all peces abill to fight;
                                
                                  Lepon vpon light horses, lappit in stele;
                                
                                  Withouten leue of the lege, or þe leffe prince,
                                  Line 5676 
                                
                                  Bowet euyn to þe banke or þai bide wold;
                                
                                  Out of rule or aray raungit on lenght. [folio 88b] 
                                
                                  The Grekes in the gret shippes graidly beheld,
                                
                                  Segh the pepull so plaintiouse, presaund in armes,
                                  Line 5680 
                                
                                  The bonke to forbede, bold men ynow:
                                
                                  Thai hade meruell full mekyll in hor mynd all,
                                
                                  To se the gouernaunce graithe, & the grete chere,
                                
                                  How wisely þo werriours wroghten vndur shild.
                                  Line 5684 
                                
                                  There was no Greke so grym, ne of so gret wille,
                                
                                  Durst abate on þo buernes, ne to bonke stride;
                                
                                  Ne afforse hym with fight to ferke out of ship.
                                
                                  But for hom gaynet no ground to get at þe tyme,
                                  Line 5688 
                                
                                  But þurghe strenght of strokes, & of strong fight,
                                
                                  And with batell full big on a breme wise,
                                
                                  Þai armyt hom at all peces all the ost well,
                                
                                  Wonyn to þere weppons wyghtly by-dene,
                                  Line 5692 
                                
                                  And girdyn vp to þe ground with hor grete shippes.
                                
                                  Prothessalon the proude, of Philace was kyng,
                                
                                  He was formast on flete with the first hundrith,
                                
                                  Þat boldly to bonke braidis to fight.
                                  Line 5696 
                                
                                  But his shippes were shent with a sharpe wynd,
                                
                                  Gird on the ground with so grym wille,
                                
                                  Till þai rut on a Rocke, & rent all to peses,
                                
                                  Þat mony was mard & the men drownet:
                                  Line 5700 
                                
                                  Vne sunkyn in þe se mony sure knightes.
                                
                                  And who, þat lacchit the lond with the lyf þen,
                                
                                  Were takon with the Troiens & tyrnet to dethe,
                                
                                  Martrid & murthrid, manglit in peses.
                                  Line 5704 
                                
                                  Þen the fight wex fell þo fuerse men amonge,
                                
                                  With shot fro the shippes and the shire banke.

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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 185
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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