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.

                                
                                  ffor to trete for a trew, or we tene þole,
                                
                                  And to proffer hom pes, or we payn dregh.
                                
                                  Whan Priam persayuit in his pure hert,
                                  Line 11240 
                                
                                  The fare of þo faitours with þere fals cast,
                                
                                  Euer hit meuyt hym in mynd þe malis þai þoght,
                                
                                  Þat the cast of þo cointt men come for no loue.
                                
                                  He onswart full esely efter his entent:—
                                  Line 11244 
                                
                                  "I will haue counsell in this case, & comyn with other,
                                
                                  Sertan days for doute, er I do more,
                                
                                  On all wise in this world, & wirke to þe best."
                                
                                  Kantly, to þe kyng, þen carpis Antenor:—
                                  Line 11248 
                                
                                  "If þou will mel of this mater, mene hit till vs;
                                
                                  Of oure talis take tent, trist þat we say;
                                
                                  And if þou hold hom not holsom, herkyn an|other."
                                
                                  Þen þe kyng full of care carpyt agayne:—
                                  Line 11252 
                                
                                  "I repreue not ȝour purpos, ne ȝour prise counsell;
                                
                                  Hit is lelly me lef to lyston ȝour wordis:
                                
                                  And, as ȝe demyn, to do, if hit be one best.
                                
                                  And if hit be not þe best, but to bale worth,
                                  Line 11256 
                                
                                  Wrath ȝow not wheghis, þof I wale other."
                                
                                  Þen þe traytur Antenor titly con ryse,
                                
                                  fferkyt on fote, & to þe fre sayde:—
                                
                                  "Sothly, Syr kyng, hit sittis not now,
                                  Line 11260 
                                
                                  Ȝour discresion to dem with no du reason.
                                
                                  Ȝour self and ȝour cité is set all aboute,
                                
                                  With ȝour fomen fuerse, foldyn with in.
                                
                                  Þai kepyn the cloyse of this clene burgh,
                                  Line 11264 
                                
                                  With ȝep men at þe yatis ȝarkit full þik:
                                
                                  In qwose cumpany kide are kyngis full nobill,
                                
                                  ffifté full fell & of furse dukis [folio 172a] 
                                
                                  Þat noght wilnen in word, ne waytyn to haue,
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                                  But þi seté to sese, and þi selfe alse.
                                
                                  And we, no folke of defense, ne no fyn stuf

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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 367
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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