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.

                                    
                                      In sauyng of our-selfe & our sure knightes."
                                    
                                      Then Calcas the curset, þat was the kyde traytour,
                                    
                                      The Bysshop of the burgh, þat I aboue said,
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                                      Negh wode of his wit, walt into sorow,
                                    
                                      Brast out with a birre & a bale noise.
                                    
                                      "Ah! noble men of nome, nayet of your werkes,
                                    
                                      Worthiest in worde, wanttis no hertte!
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                                      What! thinke ye so þroly this þrepe for to leue;
                                    
                                      Your goddis to greue, þat graunttes you an end?
                                    
                                      Leuys hit full lelly, the laike is your avne,
                                    
                                      And the prise of the play plainly to ende,
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                                      Thurgh the graunt of your goddes, & no grem þole.
                                    
                                      What! thinke ye so þroly þis þrepe for to leue?
                                    
                                      Heyue vp your herttes, henttes your armys;
                                    
                                      Wackyns vp your willes, as worthy men shuld;
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                                      Bes fuerse on your fos to the ffer end,
                                    
                                      And lette no dolnes you drepe, ne your dede let;
                                    
                                      ffares with no faintyng till your fors lacke!
                                    
                                      Tristis me full truly, you tydes the bettur,
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                                      Yonder won for to wyn, and your wille haue;
                                    
                                      And þerfore greue not your goddes for grem þat may folow."
                                    
                                      At the wordes, I-wis, of this wickyde traytor,
                                    
                                      All the grekes with grem gedret þere herttes,
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                                      Noght charget Achilles, ne his choise helpe,
                                    
                                      But were frekir to þe fight þen at the first tyme;
                                    
                                      And þus in Rigour þos Renkes Restyn tyll efte.

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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 321
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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