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 prise wordes of Priam Paris alowet,
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                                  And demet to be don, as the duke said,
                                
                                  So þat his wiffe, o nowise,—worshipfull Elan,—
                                
                                  Shuld be sent to hir souerain, ne seche vnto grece,
                                
                                  But leng in þat lond to hir lyues end.
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                                  The þrid day, full þroly, þriuond Achilles
                                
                                  Sent his message, full mekely, to þe myld qwene.
                                
                                  He past to hir priuely, and the pert fond,
                                
                                  And asket of þat onerable onsware to haue.
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                                  Thus said hym þat souerain with a softe speche:— [folio 143b] 
                                
                                  "I haue wetyn the wille of my wale kyng,
                                
                                  And of Paris, my pure son, prestly also:
                                
                                  Bothe assenton to þis sound, sothely, to me,
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                                  On suche couenaunt to kepe, þat the kyng shall
                                
                                  All þo forwardes fulfill, first, of hym-seluyn.
                                
                                  All ys holly in hym, hold yf hym lyst,
                                
                                  ffor to sew hit hym-seluyn, say hyt fro me:
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                                  So hit keppit be in cource, carpit no ferre,
                                
                                  Tyll yssu be ordant, after his deuyse."
                                
                                  Þen be leue of þe lady, the lede on his way
                                
                                  Past at the port, & the pale entrid:
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                                  To his maistur of his mater menit anon,
                                
                                  All the truthe of the tale, tomly to end.
                                
                                  Achilles was choise fayne, cherit hym the bettur,
                                
                                  And now hatnis his hert all in hote loue:
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                                  Myche myndit the mater, in the mene tyme,
                                
                                  And to bryng hit aboute besit hym sore.
                                
                                  Hit heuet his hert of his hegh proffer,
                                
                                  Þat passit his pouer, to Priam the kyng;
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                                  ffor hit longis to a louer soche a light vice,
                                
                                  In the hete of his hert, for his hegh lust,
                                
                                  To proffer soche prise thing, þat passis his might,
                                
                                  And festyn in forward, þat hym for-thinkes after.

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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 302
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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