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.

                                
                                  ffull onsware, in faith I forme þe not here,
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                                  But come the thrid day, full þroly, withoutyn þrepe more,
                                
                                  Sew to my selfe, & I the say wille
                                
                                  Vne faithly before, as hit fare shall."
                                
                                  When the messanger hade melit with þe myld qwene,
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                                  Than he lut to þe lady, & his leue toke, [folio 143a] 
                                
                                  Meuit to his maistur, & the mater told.
                                
                                  Þen comford he caght in his cole hert,
                                
                                  Thus hengit in hope, & his hele mendit:
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                                  More redy to rest, ricchet his chere.
                                
                                  This honerable Ecuba, eft, when hir liked,
                                
                                  Preset vnto Priam, and Paris hir son;
                                
                                  Caght hom in counsell, & hir cause told,—
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                                  All the maner of the message from þe main kyng.
                                
                                  When Priam persayuit the proffer of þe greke,
                                
                                  Long he stode in a stody, or he stir wolde,
                                
                                  Doun hengond his hed, herkonyng the qwene:
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                                  Mony thoghtes full þro þrang hym within!
                                
                                  Thus onswart þat honerable euyn to his wif:—
                                
                                  "A! how hard were my hert, to hold hym as frend,
                                
                                  That so highly me hyndret, & my hate seruet!
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                                  All the leght has he lost fro my leue ene,
                                
                                  Thurgh slaght of my son, þat my sore ekys!
                                
                                  ffor whose dethe, vppon dayes, all the derfe grekes
                                
                                  Hertyn hom full hogely, my harmes to encres.
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                                  But to fle all the offence, & fortune to come,
                                
                                  In sauyng of my selffe & my sons als;
                                
                                  Þat I may lyff in my lond in my last dayes,
                                
                                  Out of batell & baret in my bare eld,
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                                  I assent to þi sagh, vpon soche wise,
                                
                                  Þat he þis forward fulfille, & before do,
                                
                                  And with no gawdes me begile, ne to greue ferre."

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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 301
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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