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.

                                
                                  The Grekes geton hor ground, þat [graidly was lost],
                                
                                  And myche comford hom the co[m of þat kene knight].
                                
                                  Mony woundes þai wroght, [and warpit to dethe]!
                                
                                  Vlixes with vtteraunse vnder [his shild],
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                                  Mony stithe in stoure stroke on [þere helmes];
                                
                                  Launsit, as a lyoun, þat were [lengen aboute],
                                
                                  And of the ffrigies fell with [his fuerse dinttes]: [folio 90b] 
                                
                                  Sum he stroke in the stoure streght to þe erthe;
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                                  Sum dange to the dethe, & derit full mykyll.
                                
                                  The proud kyng of Pafligon persayuit his dede,—
                                
                                  One Philmene, a freike of the ferre halue,—
                                
                                  He gird hym to ground with a grym speire;
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                                  And he fell vppon fote, faght with the kyng.
                                
                                  And Philmene the fuerse, with a fell dynt,
                                
                                  Vttrid Vlixes vne in the place,
                                
                                  Þat hit shot þrough the shilde & þe shire maile,
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                                  To þe bare of þe body, þat the blade folowet;
                                
                                  And he gird to þe ground with a grym hurt,
                                
                                  Hade no strenght for to stond, ȝet he stert vp,
                                
                                  And frusshit at Philmene with a fyn launse.
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                                  With all the might & the mayn, þat the mon hade,
                                
                                  He hit hym so hetturly on hegh on the shild,
                                
                                  Þat he breke þurgh the burd to the bare throte;
                                
                                  Hurlet þurghe the hawbergh, hurt hym full sore;
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                                  The gret vayne of his gorge gird vne ysondur,
                                
                                  Þat the freike, with the frusshe, fell of his horse,
                                
                                  Halfe ded of the dynt, dusshet to ground.
                                
                                  The Troiens for þat tulke had tene at hor hert;
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                                  Kayron euyn to the kyng, caght hym belyue;
                                
                                  Harlet hym fro horsfet, had hym away.
                                
                                  [He] for ded of þe dynt was drest on his shild,
                                
                                  [And bou]rne on the burde to þe burgh hom;
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                                  [For the de]the of þis duke doll was ynogh
                                
                                  [That trublit þe] Troiens with tene, trist ye no nother

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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 189
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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