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.

                                
                                  Þat we may speike of our spede specially þere.
                                
                                  Thus I will þat þou wirk, wete þou for sothe:
                                
                                  Sure knightes of assent assemble þe to,
                                
                                  Turnys into the temple trystily enarmyt;
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                                  Kepis you in couer, cleane out of sight,
                                
                                  Tyll the kyng and his company by comyn within;
                                
                                  ffallys on hym fuersly, frap hym to dethe,
                                
                                  That he pas not your pouer for prayer ne other!"
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                                  The knight, at þe comaundement of his kene moder,
                                
                                  With sykyng & sorow asentid þerto.
                                
                                  He dressit for þe dede, by dom of þe qwene,
                                
                                  xxti knightes full kene of his kyd fryndes.
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                                  Choise of his chere men, chargit hym-selfe
                                
                                  His councell in couert to kepe for the tyme.
                                
                                  Þan Paris and his pepull past to the temple,
                                
                                  Keppit hom in couert, aclosit hom þerin,
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                                  Armyt at all pesis, abill to fight,
                                
                                  And a-bode till þe buerne vnto burgh come.
                                
                                  Þen Ecuba esely ordant a message,
                                
                                  Sent to þat souerain by a sad frynde;
                                  Line 10528 
                                
                                  Spake to hym specially to spede of his erend,
                                
                                  To turne to the temple, and tary not longe.
                                
                                  Than the hede kyng vnhappely hasted belyue, [folio 161b] 
                                
                                  Laburd with loue, þat lodly dissayuis,
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                                  And mony worthy and wise hase to wo broght,
                                
                                  Put vnto pouert, and to pale dethe.
                                
                                  Achilles with Archilagon chefe on þe way,
                                
                                  The noble sun and next heire of Nestor the Duke,
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                                  Soghtyn to the citie somyn onon,
                                
                                  And to Appollyns aune temple angardly yode.
                                
                                  Paris with his pert knightes presyt hym agayn,
                                
                                  With all his might & his malis the mon for to sle.
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                                  Swordis out swiftly þai swappit belyue,
                                
                                  And vmset hym full sore vpon sere halfes.

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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 343
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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