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.

                                
                                  Big was the batell vpon bothe haluys,
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                                  And myche slaghtur in slade, & slyngyng to ground!
                                
                                  Troilus, in the toile, turnyt was of hors,
                                
                                  ffaght vppon fote felly agayne:
                                
                                  Mony woundit the wegh of his wale fos.
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                                  Menestaus, the mighty, mainly beheld,
                                
                                  Segh Troiell in toile, & tynt had his horse,
                                
                                  ffoght vppon fote in þe fuerse batell,
                                
                                  And myche harme with his hond happit to do.
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                                  Then aforsit hym the freike with his fuerse knightes,
                                
                                  Troilus to take and to tent lede. [folio 102a] 
                                
                                  Presit hym full prudly with his prise folke,
                                
                                  Halit hym fro horse fete, & in hond toke.
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                                  Then he led hym furthe lyuely, and his wille hade.
                                
                                  But a mon of þat mighty, þat Myseres was cald,
                                
                                  To the frigies in fere felly he saide;—
                                
                                  "Alas! ledis of þis lond, þat ye lyfe haue!
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                                  Wherto bounet ye to batell in your bright geire,
                                
                                  Whethur worship to wyn, or willfully shame?
                                
                                  Se ye not the sun of youre sure kyng,
                                
                                  With torfer be takon, & turnyt away?
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                                  If ye let hym be led furthe, your lefe haue ye tynt,
                                
                                  And of sham, þat be shapyn you, shent be ye neuer.
                                
                                  Mellis you with monhod & might of your seluyn,
                                
                                  To Restore the rynke in a rad hast,
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                                  Er he be led out of lenght, & lost of your sight,
                                
                                  And past fro your pouer thurgh the prese hoge!"
                                
                                  Then Alcanus, the kyng, kyndlit in yre,
                                
                                  Gird after the Grekes, with a grete speire,
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                                  Þat Troilus hade takon, hym tenyt full ylle.

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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 212
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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