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.

                                
                                  Segh Dyomede with a dynt dryuyn to fote,
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                                  He lyght doun full lyuely leuyt his horse,
                                
                                  And dressit to Dyamede with a derfe chere.
                                
                                  Þe freke hym defendit with a fyn wyll,
                                
                                  Were hym full wightly, and his woche past.
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                                  Achilles and Ector angarely faght!
                                
                                  Furse was þe fare þo fyn men betwene;
                                
                                  But þer hastid on hond help vnto bothe,
                                
                                  With batels full byg, þat on bent met.
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                                  Þen Menelay þe myghti, & monly Vlixes;
                                
                                  Palomydon, Philomytes, Philothetes þe grete;
                                
                                  Neptolon þe nobill, & Nestor þe duk;
                                
                                  Theseus, & Thoax, & mony tryed knight;
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                                  Menestaus þe myghty, & modé Girilius;
                                
                                  Stelleus, þe stythe kyng, with a sturne wyll;
                                
                                  Þes gyrd in o þe grekys side with a grym ost.
                                
                                  On the tothir Side fro Troy turnyt in swith, [folio 116a] 
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                                  All þe kyngis, þat were comyn by course of þere helpe,
                                
                                  With þere batels full big & mony buerne felle,
                                
                                  As honerable Ector hade ordant before.
                                
                                  Hit is wonder to wete of þo weghes þen,
                                  Line 7456 
                                
                                  How fell was þe fight of þe fuerse pepull!
                                
                                  How stith men & stedis were strikon to ground,
                                
                                  And mony derf þat was ded er þe day endit!
                                
                                  Agamynon þe grete, & his gay brother,
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                                  Menelay with mayn macchit hom in fere,
                                
                                  And presit vnto Paris all with pale hate,
                                
                                  The duke for to deire & to dethe bringe.
                                
                                  Menelay hym met with a mayn speire,
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                                  And woundit hym wickedly, warpit hym doun;
                                
                                  But his armour was od good & angardly þicke,
                                
                                  And sauit þat Syre, socurd his lyfe.
                                
                                  Then shamet þe shalke for þe shene Elan,
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                                  Þat he held in his hate fro þe hed kyng.

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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 241
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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