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.

                                
                                  Þe freke, with a felle spere frunt vnto Ector,
                                
                                  Þat hit shok alto schyuers, & þe schalk holl:
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                                  But Ector Aurthewert hym Auntrid to hyt,
                                
                                  Þat he frunt of hys fol flat to þe ground,
                                
                                  Half ded of þe dynt, derit no mo.
                                
                                  Þen Henex, with hese men, happit to come,
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                                  Gird in with grekys, as a grym syre;
                                
                                  Vlixes also, with angarely mony
                                
                                  Of tulkis of Traci, tor men of strenkyth;
                                
                                  Humelius with hast highit hom after,
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                                  And all þe kyngis clene, þat comyn out of grice,
                                
                                  With X. M. þro knyghtis, þristiest of all:
                                
                                  Þes bounyt vnto batell & to bent droghyn.
                                
                                  Wat schall tyde of þes troiens to þes tore pupull,
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                                  Þat so were wroght of weghis before,
                                
                                  And so bysy in batell er þo bold come?
                                
                                  Þen Paris aprochyt, þe Percians hym with;
                                
                                  Radli on þe right syde Rakit he furth,
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                                  And bounet into batell with a brym will.
                                
                                  Vnto Frigie, þe fell kyng, he frusshit anon,
                                
                                  With þe strenkyth of his stroke & his store arme, [folio 107a] 
                                
                                  Þat þe kyng, to þe cold erthe, cayrs out of lyue.
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                                  Þen þe grekys, for greme of þe gay kyng,
                                
                                  Miche dyn & dol for þat deth made.
                                
                                  Vlixes, his aune cosyn, angrit full sore,
                                
                                  To venge of þat vilany vili dissirit:
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                                  He put hym to Paris with a proude will,
                                
                                  Sparrit at hym with a spere spitusly fast.
                                
                                  He myst of þe mon with his mayn dynt,
                                
                                  But he hit on his horse, hurt hym full sore,
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                                  Þat he deghit of þe dynt, dusshit to ground,
                                
                                  And Paris, in þe plit, pight vppon fote.
                                
                                  Troiell, þat tyme, was truly besyde,
                                
                                  Segh þe bold at his brother boun for to strike;
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                                  He swapt at hym swyth with a sword fell.
                                
                                  Hit brake thurgh þe basnet to þe bare hed,

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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 222
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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