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.

HOW ACHILLES SENTTO ECUBA FOR HIR DOGHTER POLEXENA.

                                    Anon as the night passid, & neghid the day,
                                  
                                    Yet lastoon the lell tru the lordes betwene,
                                  
                                    He ordant to Ecuba, the honerable qwene,
                                  
                                    A message for the maiden by a mene frynd, [folio 142b] 
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                                    Priuely to passe to the prise lady,
                                  
                                    Þat worthy to wilne to his wif euyn,
                                  
                                    And mell with a mariage & matremony hole,
                                  
                                    As a lady to liue to hir lyues end:
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                                    On suche couenaund to kepe, yf þat dere wold,
                                  
                                    He shuld procour the prinse, & the prise grekes,
                                  
                                    To pas fro þat prouyns, payre hom nomore;
                                  
                                    And nought tary on the towne, ne no tene wirke,
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                                    Withoute condiscoun, or cause, for to come after.
                                  
                                    The mon, þat this message meuit for to do,
                                  
                                    Was a seruond full sure of the same kynges.
                                  
                                    When he hade told hym þis tale, toght hym to go,
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                                    He made hym redy full rad, ron to the toun,
                                  
                                    Esely to Ecuba etlit he anon,
                                  
                                    And all his charge, to þat chefe, choisly he said.
                                  
                                    The worthy, to þat wegh, þat was of wit noble,
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                                    Depe of discrecioun, in dole þof sho were,
                                  
                                    Sho herknet hym full hyndly, & with hert gode,
                                  
                                    And onswaret hym esely, euyn on this wise:—
                                  
                                    "ffrend, þou shall fairly fare to þi lord,
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                                    And say hym vpon sewertie thy-seluyn with mouthe,
                                  
                                    In þat at menys to me, with my might hole
                                  
                                    I shall filsyn þis forward, in faith, þat I can;
                                  
                                    But, I will say the, my son, or þou sew ferre,
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                                    I most wete all the wille of my wale kyng,
                                  
                                    And my sonnes, for sothe, or I say more,
                                  
                                    Yf þai graunt will þis grace, with a goode wille.

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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 300
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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