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 COUNSAILL OF AGAMINON AFTER THE DEATHE OF ECTOR.

                                    When Ector done was to dethe, & his day past,
                                  
                                    Achilles woundit full wothely in were of his lyffe,
                                  
                                    All the grete of the grekes gedrit were sone,
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                                    By ordinaunce of the Emperoure, þat after hom sent.
                                  
                                    Thus he spake for his spede his specials vnto:—
                                  
                                    "Now fryndes, in faith, vs is faire happont,
                                  
                                    And þroly, me thinke, we thanke shuld oure goddes,
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                                    Þat hase grauntid vs þat grace of þe gome Ector,
                                  
                                    To be drepit to dethe thurgh dughty Achilles.
                                  
                                    ffor, while the lede was on lyf, & his lymes holl,
                                  
                                    We hade hertely no hope here for to spede,
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                                    Yonder toun for to take, ne tene hom within,
                                  
                                    Ne in this lond, at our lust, lykyng to haue.
                                  
                                    ffor he hase kyld of our kynges, to count hom by nome,
                                  
                                    Prothesselon, Patroculun, & Policene als;
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                                    Myrion the mighty, & the mayn Sedymon;
                                  
                                    Prothenor the pert, & the prinse Xancipun.
                                  
                                    Alphenor the fuerse flung he to dethe;
                                  
                                    Archillagon the choise choppit to ground;
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                                    Domen the doughty, & derf Polexenas;
                                  
                                    Isum, also, abill of his dedys.
                                  
                                    Polipheten, a prise mon, he put out of lyue;
                                  
                                    Letabion on the laund þere left he for ded;
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                                    And mony grete of our grekes he to ground broght.
                                  
                                    Syn he be destany is dede, what dem þar vs ellus,
                                  
                                    But the Citie to sese, & slyng it to ground;
                                  
                                    All the pepull to pyne put, and dethe at oure lust? [folio 137a] 
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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 287
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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