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.

Priam a prise towmbe prestly gart make, And the bodyes of þo bold buried þerin, [folio 148b] With solenité & Sacrifice suche as þai vsit: Couert hom clanly, closet hom to-gedur. Line 9616
Myche tene in the tenttes with tulkes was made, With dynnyng & dole for dethe of hor lord. Þai broght hym to berynes, þo buernes onon, And closit hym clanly in a clere towmbe. Line 9620 Þen to-gedur thai gone, the gret by assent, To chese hom a cheftain by charge of hom all, By assent of hom-selfe a souerain to make, Syn Palomydon þe prise put was to dethe. Line 9624 By agrement of þo grete, & the good Nestor, Þai grauntid Agamynon the gre for to haue, Ches hym for cheftain, & chargit hym þerwith.
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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.
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Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,
1869-1874.
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Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends

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