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.

                                
                                  Priams pure dughter, pertist of wit,—
                                  Line 12044 
                                
                                  And all grauntid þe grete with a gode will.
                                
                                  As þes kynges in counsell were comynyng to|gedur,
                                
                                  Eneas egerly, euyn with Antenor,
                                
                                  Put hym in prise & profferit to say: [folio 184a] 
                                  Line 12048 
                                
                                  Þe dede of Andromaca duli þai told,
                                
                                  And how Elynus egerly ertid þe lordis
                                
                                  To pursu for þe pes to þe pure grekis;
                                
                                  And how at praier of þat pure þe prise kyng Achilles,
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                                  Was grauntid to be grauyn, & gyuyn to his toumbe:
                                
                                  Þat worthi þai wilnet of wo to delyuer,
                                
                                  And grauntid þo grete with a glad chere.
                                
                                  Elynus egerly for Ectors childur
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                                  Praiet to þo prinses, and hor pure modur:
                                
                                  And þe lordis to þo litill þe lyuys han grauntid,
                                
                                  Namly Pirrus, þat purpost to put hom to deth,
                                
                                  Assentid to þat same with a sad graunt.
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                                  Þen ordant afterward þes honourable kynges,
                                
                                  Þat all þe worchipfull wemen of þe wale toune,
                                
                                  Þat left were on lyue, haue leue forto wend,
                                
                                  Lause at hor lykyng, no lede forto harme.
                                  Line 12064 
                                
                                  Þen purpost þai playnly to pas oute of land,
                                
                                  ffro troy forto turne, & tary no lengur;
                                
                                  But þe stormys were so stith, & stiryng of wyndis,
                                
                                  More þen a moneth myght þai not pas.
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                                  Þen come þai to Calcas þe cause forto wete,
                                
                                  Of þe wedur so wikkid, & þe wan stormys.
                                
                                  He said hom, forsothe, þe sayntis of hell
                                
                                  Were wode in hor werkis for wreke of Achilles;
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                                  Þat no dere for his deth was don ȝet ynogh,
                                
                                  ffor he with treson in þe temple vntruly was slayn.

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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 393
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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