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.

                                
                                  The sextene day sothely, sais me the lyne,
                                
                                  The boldmen to bent bounet full þicke,
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                                  Sadly on aither syde soghtyn to ffild.
                                
                                  The grekes hom greithed, the grettist & other,
                                
                                  Dyomede the doughty, & derf Menestaus;
                                
                                  Agamynon also auntrid hym with;
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                                  Menelaus among meuit to ffeld.
                                
                                  All buskes hor batels on hor best wise,
                                
                                  And past furth to the pase, þo pouer togedur.
                                
                                  Þan Priam, the prise kyng, puruait onon
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                                  His knightes in companyes cantly to wend,
                                
                                  Vndur gouernaunce graithe how þai go shuld,
                                
                                  And assignet hom hym-selfe, as souerain & lord.
                                
                                  Moche dole and doute þo doghty men hade,
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                                  Syn hom lacked the lede of the lorde Ector,
                                
                                  Þat was stithist of stoure, stabill of hert,
                                
                                  And the wit, þat hom wantid, of the worthy Deffibus,
                                
                                  With the truthe and the trist of Troiell the knight.
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                                  In defaute of tho fuerse, the fyne Duke Paris
                                
                                  ffore to the fight with a fell pouer.
                                
                                  Myche watur he weppit of his wale ene,
                                
                                  Ouer-flowet his face, fell on his brest,
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                                  With streamys out straght þurgh his stithe helme.
                                
                                  The murmur was mykill of his mayn knightes,
                                
                                  With gronyng & gref for þere gret angur,
                                
                                  Ay in doute of the dethe, dredyng hom-seluyn.
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                                  Than Polidamas full prest put next after;
                                
                                  Philmen, the fuerse kyng, with a folke hoge;
                                
                                  Esdyas also auntrid hom with;
                                
                                  Eneas also after hom went;
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                                  All the ledis to the listes on the laund past.
                                
                                  Paris with the percians, prise of all archers,
                                
                                  Assemblit full sone with a sad pepull.

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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 347
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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