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 sarre woundit he was, & his wille hatter.
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                                  Lo, so sodainly with sight in a sad hast,
                                
                                  A whe may be woundit þurgh wille of hym seluyn!
                                
                                  Thus, Achilles by chaunse is chaltrid in grym,
                                
                                  With loue of this lady, þat ledis to þe dethe.
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                                  All the care of his cure the kyng has forgeton,
                                
                                  And all meuit out of mynd saue the maidon one!
                                
                                  When þe day ouerdrogh to þe due tyme,
                                
                                  Ecuba the honerable, & hir awne doghter,
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                                  Turnyt from the temple and to toune yode;
                                
                                  Wentton hom wightly, weppit nomore.
                                
                                  The lede loked hir after with a loue egh,
                                
                                  ffolowand on fer, þat fre to beholde,
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                                  Þat was cause of his combranse & his cold dethe:
                                
                                  Þan with langur of lust, & of loue hote,
                                
                                  He was stithly astondid, stird into þoght.
                                
                                  So he passid the port, & his pale entrid,
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                                  Turnyt into tent, takon full hard.
                                
                                  The buerne into bed busket anon,
                                
                                  Seke & vnsound, set out of hele:
                                
                                  Mony thoghtes full þro þrang hym within,
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                                  And was laburt full long in his lefe saule.
                                
                                  He feld in his fare, & his fell hert,
                                
                                  Þat the cause of his combraunse was the clere maidon.
                                
                                  Thies wordes, in his wo, witturly he said,
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                                  Soberly to hym-selfe, þat no saule here:—
                                
                                  "Now wrecche full vnworthy, wo mot I þole,
                                
                                  Þat mony stalworth in stoure, & stuerne men haue kyld,
                                
                                  Might non abate of my blysse, ne my ble chaunge.
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                                  Noght Ector of all other, oddist of knightes,
                                
                                  Hade no sleght me to sle, ne to slyng vnder,

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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 298
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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