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.

                                
                                  Ne ouercome me by course with his clene strenght.
                                
                                  A ffrele woman me fades, & my fas chaunges,
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                                  And has gird me to ground, & my gost feblit!
                                
                                  Syn ho is cause of my care, & my cold angur,
                                
                                  Att what leche vppon lyue might I laite hele? [folio 142a] 
                                
                                  There is no medcyn on mold, saue the maiden one,
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                                  Þat my sors might salue, ne me sound make.
                                
                                  The whiche þof I loue, & langwisshe to dethe,
                                
                                  With prayer, with prise, ne with pure strenght,
                                
                                  Ne for worthines of wer, ne of wale dedis.
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                                  What wildnes, or worship, waknet my hert
                                
                                  ffor to hap her in hert, þat hates my-seluyn?
                                
                                  In hir cuntre to come, & hir kyn sle,
                                
                                  Hir fadur & hir fryndis, fond to distroy,
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                                  And hir brother haue britnet, þe best vpon erthe?
                                
                                  On what wise in this world wilne shuld I hir,
                                
                                  Most exilent of other, onerable of kyn,
                                
                                  Of Rent, & of Riches, rankir þan I,
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                                  And passes of pertnes pure wemen all?
                                
                                  Hit semith me vnsertain, all serchyng of wayes;
                                
                                  Ys stokyn vp full stithly, shuld streche to my hele!"
                                
                                  Þen he turnys in his tene, & terys on his chekes
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                                  Ronen full rifely, for his ranke sorow.
                                
                                  Þen he driet vp the dropes, & dreghly can syle.
                                
                                  On all wise in this world he his wit cast,
                                
                                  ffor to wyn to his will, if werdis noght let.
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                                  Þen he rose fro his rest in a Rad hast,
                                
                                  Asket water at his weghes, wesshed hym anone,
                                
                                  Refresshing his face for facyng of teres,
                                
                                  And dride vp his dropes for dymyng his ene.

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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 299
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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