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.

                                
                                  The[n] answard Eneas easely agayne:—
                                
                                  "Lord, with your leue, þat were a laithe dede!
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                                  Syche a chaunse for to chefe choisly of you,
                                
                                  The noise of your nobilté were noyet for euer!
                                
                                  Syne he is gret of degre, groundit of old,
                                
                                  And mony syb to hym selfe of souerans & other,
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                                  Ye haue ledis, þat ye loue, & lightly may happyn
                                
                                  Of your sons to be sesit, or sum sib other:
                                
                                  Þen the grekes for grem in hor grete yre,
                                
                                  Wold dight hym to dethe, your dole to increse.
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                                  Hit might sothely be siche on, as your self nold
                                
                                  ffor mykill of þis medill erthe þat myschefe to se:
                                
                                  Therfore, sothely me semeth, sauyng your wille,
                                
                                  Hit is bettur þis bold kyng in the burgh hold.
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                                  He may be chaungit by chaunse for sum choise other,
                                
                                  Þat is takon of Troy, if hit tyde so;
                                
                                  And the lure be þe les þen the lyfe tyne."
                                
                                  Ector to Eneas egerly assentid, [folio 118a] 
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                                  And confermyt his counsell in cas for þe best;
                                
                                  And lowet the lede for his leue speche.
                                
                                  Then Priam to þe purpos prestly can say:—
                                
                                  "If we leue hym on lyue, & the lede kepe,
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                                  Oure fomen, in faith, for faint will vs deme;
                                
                                  And hold vs vnhardy oure harmys to venge!
                                
                                  But, neuertheles, as you list, of þat lord wirke;
                                
                                  And, as yo counsell in the cas, I comaund be done."
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                                  When this speche was sped, speke þai no fferre.
                                
                                  Eneas to Elan Etlit to wend,
                                
                                  To se hir in sight, and solas þat fre.
                                
                                  He toke with hym Troilus & trusty Antenor,
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                                  And went in full wightly into a wide halle.
                                
                                  There was Ecuba þe honerable, & Elan to-gedur,
                                
                                  With women of worship, the worthiest of Troy:

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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 246
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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