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.

                                
                                  Of grekes þat were gedrit to þe great troye,
                                
                                  Priam to oppresse, & his pure londes;
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                                  And ho come for þat cause, þat kyng for to helpe,
                                
                                  With hir maidons full myld, mightily in armys,
                                
                                  A thowsaund full þro, þrepand in wer.
                                
                                  ffor loue of þat lede, þat was of lyue past,
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                                  To þe Cité ho soght with hur sute hoole,
                                
                                  Noght knowing the case of þe kyd prinse,
                                
                                  Þat the doghty was dede & drepid for ay.
                                
                                  Whan þat worthy hit wist of his wale dethe,
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                                  Myche sorow & sykyng sanke in hir hert,
                                
                                  And mony dayes for dole þat doghty can wepe.
                                
                                  This lady at the last lefte of hir sorow,
                                
                                  And prayt vnto Priam all with pure wordes,
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                                  His buernes vnto batell bainly to ordan,
                                
                                  And pull vp a port, let hom passe furthe.
                                
                                  Sho purpost hir plainly with hir pure maidons,
                                
                                  The grekes to greue, & she grace hade,
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                                  In fight for to fele of hir fell dynttes,
                                
                                  And of maidyns might make hom to know.
                                
                                  Þan Priam his prise men prestly comaundit,
                                
                                  Philmen, the fuerse kyng, & his feres all,
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                                  Eneas also, abill of dedis,
                                
                                  Polidamas the pert, with a prise batell,
                                
                                  With Pantasilia the pure prestly to wend.
                                
                                  Dardan to vndo þe doghty comaundit,
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                                  And all fore to þe fight in a frunt hole.
                                
                                  The grekes gird hom agayn with a grym fare,
                                
                                  And with launses on the laund lepyn to-gedur.
                                
                                  Breme was the broche in the brest þan!
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                                  Pantasilia so presit proud Menelaus,
                                
                                  Þat ho gird hym to ground with a grym dynt.
                                
                                  The horse of þat hathell hent ho belyue,
                                
                                  And raght by the Reynes to a ranke maiden. [folio 166b] 
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                                  Dyomede the derfe drofe to þe qwene,
                                
                                  With a course of his caple, and a kene speire.

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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 354
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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