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.

                                
                                  Þan Paris the prise knight preset in swithe,
                                
                                  With his noble brethir naturell, nait men of werr.
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                                  Þai met on the Mirmydons, macchit hom hard,
                                
                                  Pallit thurgh the persans, put hom beside,
                                
                                  Hurlit þurgh the hard maile, hagget the lere,
                                
                                  And deliuert the lede lawse of hor hondes,
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                                  Horsit hym in hast þurgh help of his brether.
                                
                                  Þan wacknet þere wo & mony whe sorow!
                                
                                  The Mirmydons, for malice of the mayn troielus,
                                
                                  ffoghten so felly the fregies among,
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                                  On Swargadon þai slogh, a sure mon of armys,
                                
                                  A prise sun of Priam, & a pert knight,
                                
                                  The noblest of þe naturell, þat noiet hom all.
                                
                                  Troiell weppit for woo with watur of his ene,
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                                  And brochit in bremely his brother to venge;
                                
                                  With Parys, the prise knight, & proud men of Troye,
                                
                                  Mony warchond wound wroght at þat tyme.
                                
                                  The Mirmydons were mony & of mayn strenght,
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                                  Wise men in werr, wight of hor dedis,
                                
                                  Graithe of hor gouernaunce, grym in a feld,
                                
                                  Of all fetis enfourmyt, þat to fight longit:
                                
                                  Thai segh the troiens so tore & tentymys moo; [folio 154b] 
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                                  Þai hade no might, ne no mayn, þe men to with|stonde,
                                
                                  But assemblit on a sop sadly to-gedur,
                                
                                  And ay droghen o dregh, as hom deirit lest.
                                
                                  On nowise in this world weir hom þai might;
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                                  But Troylus with tene ay turnyt hom doun,
                                
                                  Sundrit the soppis with his sad dynttes,
                                
                                  Shot thurgh the sheltrons, & shent of hom mony.
                                
                                  Than Agamynon the grete & grym Menelaus,
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                                  Telamon the tore kyng, & tidé Vlixes,
                                
                                  And Diomede the doughtie, þat duly was hole,
                                
                                  All gird in full grymly with a gret pepull,
                                
                                  Restorit the stith fight stuernly agayn.

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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 327
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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