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.

                                
                                  Þen Vlixes & Arest angurdly faght:
                                
                                  Vlexes gird hym to grond, grippit his horse,
                                
                                  Sent hym by a seruaund sone to his tent.
                                  Line 7472 
                                
                                  Polimytes, þe proud kyng, presit vnto Hupon,
                                
                                  Wondit hym wickedly, warpit hym to dethe.
                                
                                  Neptolemus, the noble, nolpit to Archilagon,
                                
                                  That both went backward & bultvppon the erthe.
                                  Line 7476 
                                
                                  Polidamas to Palomydon presit so fast,
                                
                                  Þat he gird hym doun grymly with a grym wound;
                                
                                  Spake to hym spitously, dispisit hym foule;
                                
                                  ffore with hym fuersly all in fell angur.
                                  Line 7480 
                                
                                  Stelleus, the stithe kyng, stroke vnto Carax,
                                
                                  Hurlet hym of horse, hade hym to ground.
                                
                                  Philmen, the fuerse, with a fell dynt
                                
                                  Drof to the derfe duke, doughty of Athens;
                                  Line 7484 
                                
                                  Hurlit hym doun hedlynges, & his horse toke;
                                
                                  Raght hym full radly to a rynke of his owne. [folio 116b] 
                                
                                  Philoc with felle angur frusshet to Remo,
                                
                                  Till bothe welt backward of hor bare sadles.
                                  Line 7488 
                                
                                  Theseus, a tore kyng, tachit on Eurialon,
                                
                                  That aither wegh other woundit, & welt to þe grene.
                                
                                  The noble brether naturell naited þere strenght,
                                
                                  Mony woundit in wer wroght þo þat day;
                                  Line 7492 
                                
                                  Mony grekes, thurgh hor grefe, on þe ground leuyt;
                                
                                  Mony woundit þo worthy of þaire wale kynges.
                                
                                  Telamon, the tore kyng, with a togh speire,
                                
                                  With the kyng of Capadoys caupit so harde,
                                  Line 7496 
                                
                                  Þat bothe were þai bold men borne to þe grene,
                                
                                  Woundit full wickedly in wer of hor lyues:
                                
                                  In the brest of þe batell þere þe buernys lay!
                                
                                  Þen Achilles cherfull, & his choise cosyn
                                  Line 7500 
                                
                                  Toax, þat other, a tore mon of strenght,
                                
                                  Ayren vnto Ector angardly sore!

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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 242
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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