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.

                                
                                  And þat shall douteles be done in dayes a few.
                                
                                  And syn vs botis notto batell but vs bale worthe,
                                
                                  Withoutyn the helpe and the hondes of herty Achilles,
                                
                                  Hit is best þat we byde, barly, me thinke,
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                                  Tyll he be hole of his hurt, hast we no ferre.
                                
                                  Let vs puruay to Priam prise men of wit,
                                
                                  ffor to trete of a tru in trist of the bettur,
                                
                                  Till two monethes & more be meuit to end,
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                                  ffor to bery þies bodies, þat brittnet are to dethe,
                                
                                  That storis vs with stynke, & our state harmys;
                                
                                  And our hurtmen to hele, þat harmys haue kaght."
                                
                                  When his speche was spokyn, & sped to þe last,
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                                  All the lordes hit alowet, & lowten þerto.
                                
                                  Then sent were þere sone soundismen two,
                                
                                  To Priam, the prise kyng, purpos to hold;
                                
                                  And he grauntid vngright with a good chere,
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                                  And affirmet hit with faith to þe frekis all.
                                
                                  Within the tyme of þis tru, as the trety sais,
                                
                                  Palomydon the proud kyng playnet hym ofte,
                                
                                  Of Agamynons gouernaunce in a grete yre.
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                                  And as hit tid on a tyme, þes triet kynges hoole
                                
                                  Were somyn at a semly the souerain before,
                                
                                  Palomydon put hym full prestly to say,
                                
                                  And meuit of his mater, þat I mynnet are.
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                                  Þan Agamynon, full godely, agayn to hym said,
                                
                                  Before þo kynges in comyn on a cleane wise:—
                                
                                  "Now Palomydon, pure ffrende, pertly I aske,
                                
                                  Whethur þou hope it in hert, or hold in þi mynd,
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                                  That I am glad of þis gouernaunce, to be gyde here:
                                
                                  Syn I with prayer, ne with pursuet, preset not þeraftur,
                                
                                  Ne desyret hit in dede þe dayes of my liffe.
                                
                                  Ne neuer fortherit me a ferthing to fylsy my goodes;

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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 288
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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