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 his mote, & his manas, not mykell ho roght.
                                
                                  When he neighed hur negh, naitly ho said
                                
                                  Þes wordes to the wegh, þat he well herd:—
                                
                                  "I am not ferd of þi fare, ne þi fell speche,
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                                  Þof þi fadur with falshed, & with foule treason,
                                
                                  Honerable Ector egurly slogh:
                                
                                  Whose vilany to venge, & þe vile dede,
                                
                                  All the world shuld wilne, wemen & oder.
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                                  And we, þat in wer, wemen ye call,
                                
                                  Of oure dynttes dedly shall dele with you sone."
                                
                                  Pyrrus wex pale at hir pure wordes,
                                
                                  And come with a course of his kene yre, [folio 168b] 
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                                  Þat doghty to dere with a dede stroke.
                                
                                  The womon was war of his wille sone,
                                
                                  And keppit hym full cantly: þai caupit to-gedur,
                                
                                  With þaire glaiues full grym, on the grene laund,
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                                  Þat Pirrus with pyne was putto þe erthe,
                                
                                  And his speire vntto sprottes sproungen on þe qwene.
                                
                                  He launchit vp lyuely, lacchit a swerd,
                                
                                  Bere to þat bold with a breme fare;
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                                  And ho keppit hym full kantly, kobbit with hym sore,
                                
                                  Woundit hym wickedly in hir wode angur,
                                
                                  Wold haue dongyn hym to dethe, hade þai delt long.
                                
                                  Þan þe Mirmydons, his men, mightely comyn,
                                  Line 11028 
                                
                                  Lepyn to þere lord, lugget hym away,
                                
                                  Halpe hym to horse in a hond qwhile,
                                
                                  Thurgh strenght of þat stoure, & of stithe fight.
                                
                                  Þan Agamynon the grete, with grekes ynow,
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                                  Dyomede drogh nere with a derfe pepull;
                                
                                  Antenor also auntrid to batell,
                                
                                  With a company clene of kyd men of armys.
                                
                                  Phylmen þe freke, þat fuersly withtakon,
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                                  Þat passit fro Pirrus by the prise qwene,

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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 359
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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