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.

                                
                                  Menelay full monly, with a manur pepull,
                                
                                  Seuyn M. be sowme assignet for hym.
                                
                                  Then meuit with as mony, mighty Dyomydes,
                                
                                  And Achilles with choise men chosen of the same.
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                                  Than sought furth Xantippus with sad men a hepe,
                                
                                  Thre thowsaund thristy, þrong to the fild.
                                
                                  Than Agamynon the grete gird on the last,
                                
                                  With a noyus nowmbur, nait men of strenght.
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                                  The first, þat to fight past, was Philoc the kyng, [folio 127b] 
                                
                                  Put hym furth prudly, presit to þe Troiens!
                                
                                  Ector met hym with mayn, macchit hym so harde,
                                
                                  That he gird to the ground & the gost past.
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                                  Myche clamur & crye for the kynges sake,
                                
                                  And dynttes full dedly delt hom betwene.
                                
                                  Then girde o the greke halfe with grym fare,
                                
                                  Xantipus, a sure Kyng, with a sad wepyn,
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                                  ffor to dere for þe dethe of his dere vncle.
                                
                                  He suet furth sadly to þe sure prinse,
                                
                                  And stroke hym full stithly with a stiff sworde.
                                
                                  Ector turnet with tene, toke hym on þe hed,
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                                  Þat he slode doun sleghly, & sleppit euer after.
                                
                                  Then the grekes were greuit for the grym kyng;
                                
                                  Oppressit hom with pyne, pressit full hard;
                                
                                  Turnit to the Troiens, tenit hom full euill;
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                                  Mony woundit full wickedly, & warpit of horse.
                                
                                  Achilles mony choise men choppit to þe erthe;
                                
                                  Mony ledes with his launse out of lyfe broght.
                                
                                  Two Dukes full derne vnto dethe kyld,
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                                  Þat were comyn to þe kyng with þere kyde helpis,—
                                
                                  ffull bold men in batell, & myche bale did.
                                
                                  Hit auntrit, þat Ector was angrit full euill,
                                
                                  Woundit full wickedly, wist not of woo,

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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 267
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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