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.

                                
                                  Mony woundit tho weghis & wroght vnto dethe,
                                
                                  And harmyt full hogely with þere hard shot.
                                
                                  Than Agamynon the grete gird into batell!
                                
                                  Ector full egerly etlit hym to mete,
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                                  Gird hym Euyn to þe grond with a grym hurt:
                                
                                  Halfe dede of þe dynt þere þe duke lay.
                                
                                  Than Achilles with a choise sword choppit to Ector,
                                
                                  Alto hurlet the helme of þe high prinse;
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                                  But hym seluyn was safe, & his seate helde.
                                
                                  Than Troilus full tite, & tidé Eneas,
                                
                                  Chefyn to Achilles with choise men ynogh,
                                
                                  Hurlit hym hastely, harmyt hym full mekull,
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                                  Bere hym bak of þe bent & his buernes all.
                                
                                  Then Diomede, the derfe kyng, drof to Eneas,
                                
                                  Woundit hym wykkidly, & to þe whe saide:— [folio 115b] 
                                
                                  "Now, welcum I-wysse, for þi wale counsell,
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                                  Þat in presens of Priam pursuet me to fle!
                                
                                  Wete hit full well for þi wyll febill,
                                
                                  If þou contynu by course, & cum into batell,
                                
                                  You shall happyn in my handis hardly not faile,
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                                  And be ded of my dyntis for þi dissire old."
                                
                                  Þen he drof to the duk with a dynt fell,
                                
                                  Vnhorsit hym in hast, had hym to ground.
                                
                                  Ector eftirsons ettlyt on Achilles,
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                                  And greuit hym full gretly with a grym stroke,
                                
                                  Alto hurlit his helme, hurt hym full euyll,
                                
                                  Wold haue takyn hym full tit, but at tene fell
                                
                                  A sad man full sone, þe sun of Theseus,
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                                  Segh Achilles myscheuyt, choppit to Ector:
                                
                                  With a swyng of his sword swagit on þe prinse.
                                
                                  Ector, for þe stithe stroke stoynyt no thyng,
                                
                                  Gryppit to his gode sword in a grym yre,
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                                  Drof vnto Diomede, þat deryt hym before,
                                
                                  Þat hedstoupis of his horse he hurlit to ground.
                                
                                  Þat Toilus in þe toile þis torfer beheld,

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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 240
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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