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.

                                
                                  So fuersly he fore in his fight þen,
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                                  With other helpe þat he hade, his harmys to venge,
                                
                                  Þat þe grekes gyuen bake, & the ground leuyn,
                                
                                  And were forsit to þe fight or þai fay worthit.
                                
                                  Þen gird in on þe grekes half with a grym fare,
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                                  Nestor, the noble duke, with a new batell
                                
                                  Of v thousaund fuerse men, & felle to þe stour,
                                
                                  Þat mony warchand wound wroght on hor fos.
                                
                                  ffull tyte fro þe toun turnyt hym agayne,
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                                  Philon, a felle kyng, & his fere Esdras,
                                
                                  Þat shot þurgh þere sheltruns & shent mony knightes.
                                
                                  This Philon, in fight, mony freike slogh.
                                
                                  Þen the grekes with grym gedirt hym vmbe,
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                                  Wold haue kyld the kyng with a kant wille;
                                
                                  But on Iacomas, a Ioly mon, as the gest tellis,
                                
                                  To Esdras, in ernyst, egirly saide:—
                                
                                  "Se Philon, the fre kyng, is with his fos takon:
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                                  High we vs hastely, help hym away! [folio 106a] 
                                
                                  Let vs reskew the Renke, refe hym his fos!"
                                
                                  Þen the Troiens, with tene, tidely þai faght;
                                
                                  Sore greuit the grekes, gird hom abacke;
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                                  Wonen to þe wale kyng, & away toke,
                                
                                  Withouten hurt, other harme, in a hond while.
                                
                                  Þen Ector Eftersones entrid agayne,
                                
                                  With the noble men, þat I neuenyt, his naturill brether,
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                                  And Deffebus the Duke, dughty of hond;
                                
                                  Polidamus, the pert knight, preset in als.
                                
                                  Thes wonderfully wroght in hor wale strenght,
                                
                                  With þere company clene of kyd men of Troy,
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                                  Þat the grekes, of þe ground, gird were anon,
                                
                                  fflagh fro the frekes, & the fild leuyt;
                                
                                  But Menelay the mighty, & the mayn Telamon,
                                
                                  So sturnly withstod with þaire strenkyth holl,

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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 220
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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