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.

                                
                                  Achilles by chaunse may chefe to þe worse,
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                                  And be dede of his dynttes, but if desteny let.
                                
                                  When this purpos was plainly putto an end,
                                
                                  Then partid the prinsis, and the prise dukes,
                                
                                  Turnyt to þere tenttes & tarit no lengur;
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                                  And Rapit to þere rest, rioll & other.
                                
                                  When the light vp launchit, littid the erthe,
                                
                                  The derke ouer-done, and þe day sprange,
                                
                                  All the grekes in hor geire gedrit to feld,
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                                  Were boun on the bent on hor best wise.
                                
                                  And þe stithest in stoure, sturnyst of knightes,
                                
                                  Honerable Ector, þat eger was ay, [folio 115a] 
                                
                                  Euer waker and vnwar, wightist in armys,
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                                  Past furth with his pepull fro the pure Cité:
                                
                                  ffore euyn to þe fild with fuersmen of Troye,
                                
                                  That hym self hade assignet surest of othir.
                                
                                  Eneas afturward with abill men ynow;
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                                  Paris þen put furthe with a proude folke;
                                
                                  Deffebus drogh next with a derfe pepull;
                                
                                  Troiell, the tru knight, with a triet menye,
                                
                                  And other, þat Ector had ordant before,
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                                  Suet furth to þe semely, as þai assignet were.
                                
                                  The first of þo fuerse men, þat to fight past,
                                
                                  Was Ector, hym aune selfe, with odmen of troye,
                                
                                  As Dares in his dytyng of his dedis tellis.
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                                  ffro the Cité, the same day, soght to þe fild,
                                
                                  With the prinse, to the plase, and his prise brether,
                                
                                  & iij .M. thro men, þriuond in armys,
                                
                                  And V .M. fer, fuersmen & noble.
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                                  Þen gird thai to-gedur with a grym will!
                                
                                  The stere was full stithe; þere starf mony knightes!
                                
                                  Paris, with the perseans, presit in first,
                                
                                  With his bowmen full bold bykrit with the grekes.

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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 239
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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