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.

                                    
                                      All the most of þo mighty, with a mayn wille,
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                                      Dyssaisent to the dede, demyt hit for noght.
                                    
                                      Achilles at tho choise men cheuert for anger,
                                    
                                      Vne wrothe at hor wordes, & wightly he send
                                    
                                      To all the Mermydons, his men, and his mayn pepull,
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                                      That no freke to the feld fare shuld to batell;
                                    
                                      Ne to go with þe grekes, to greue hom with-in.
                                    
                                      Þen hit auntred in the ost of the od grekes,
                                    
                                      Þat hom failed the fode, and defaute hade:
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                                      Hongur full hote harmyt hom þen,
                                    
                                      And fayntid the folk, failet þe strenkith.
                                    
                                      Palomydon a perlement puruait anon,
                                    
                                      And the grete of the grekes gedrit he somyn.
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                                      Þan ordant thei all men Agamynon the kyng,
                                    
                                      With mony shippes full shene shapon þerfore,
                                    
                                      To fecche hom som fode, & filsyn hor strenght.
                                    
                                      Agamynon, full goodly, by grement of all,
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                                      Meuyt vnto Missam with mayn shippes fele,
                                    
                                      & rofe þere full radly, raiket to the kyng.
                                    
                                      And Thelaphon hym toke with a triet chere;
                                    
                                      ffylde all his fyne shippes, & his fraght made; [folio 145a] 
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                                      Stuffit hym with store, þat hom strenght might.
                                    
                                      Toke leue at þe lord, and the land past;
                                    
                                      Sailet hom soundly to the sure tenttes;
                                    
                                      Was welcom I-wis to the weghes all.
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                                      ffayne were þo freikes of þe fre kyng!
                                    
                                      Palomydon, the prise kyng, prestly gart ordan
                                    
                                      All the shippes full shene shapyn to rode;
                                    
                                      And all the navy full noble, naitly aray,
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                                      Atyrit with takell, & trussyng of Ropes,
                                    
                                      To be Redy for the Rode, yf þai Red toke.
                                    
                                      And so þai lyue þere in legh: oure lord gyf us Ioye!

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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 305
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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