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.

                                
                                  How be reason, or right, or rewle, may þou preue
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                                  To deme hym so doghty in dedis of armys?
                                
                                  And nomly in þis note, so noblely þou sayes,
                                
                                  Thurgh strenght of his strokes, stroyet he hase
                                
                                  Two Ectors eger, & to ende broght:—
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                                  The prinse of þat prouynse, þat no pere hade,
                                
                                  And Troiell the triet knight, his owne tru brother,
                                
                                  One, the strongist in stoure, þat on stede rode.
                                
                                  Lelly þi lesynges þou lappis full faire,
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                                  Thurgh affection & faithe þou fest with the grekes;
                                
                                  As þou said by þi-selfe, þurgh sibradyn first,
                                
                                  Thou was aliet to þat lynage, as by lyne olde,
                                
                                  Or ellis wodenes þe wrixlet, & þi wit failet,
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                                  And no reason by rewle þat Renke to comend.
                                
                                  Ne fell he not first with his fals trayne,
                                
                                  Honerable Ector, oddist of knightes,
                                
                                  The strongest in stoure þat euer on stede rode:
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                                  Þat mon hade no make of might in his lyue,
                                
                                  Ne so worthy in world, wist I neuer sithen.
                                
                                  When he caght hade a kyng, as come hym by chaunse,
                                
                                  And to pull hym of prese paynit hym fast,
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                                  With all besenes aboute & his brest naked,
                                
                                  His shild on his shulders shot was behynd,
                                
                                  He hedut no hathell, ne no harme thoght,
                                
                                  Saue the kyng to his company clenly to bryng.
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                                  Hade the prinse of his purpos persayuet before,
                                
                                  He hade keppit hym full cantly, cawpit with hym so,
                                
                                  Þat þe grekes shuld haue greuyt, & þe gre lost.
                                
                                  And troiell, the tru knight, trayturly he slogh,
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                                  Noght þurgh stowrenes of strokes, ne with strenght one;

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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 337
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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