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.

                                  
                                    Than the comyns toke counsell, knightes & other,
                                  
                                    And the traytor Antenor from the towne flemyt,
                                  
                                    Neuer the Cité to se, ne his sute after;
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                                    And grauntid hym his gode & gate by a tyme.
                                  
                                    Antenor full tite þan turnyt to ship,
                                  
                                    With riches full Rife, & Relikes ynow;
                                  
                                    Shot on the shyre waghes shalkes full mony,
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                                    And soght furth on the se with the softe windes.
                                  
                                    Tho pure men with payne on the pale sea,
                                  
                                    Met with a menye, & mart of hom fele;
                                  
                                    Robbet þaire Riches, & refte of þere godes,
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                                    And myche torfer & tene tide of þaire hondes.
                                  
                                    ffro tho ledis at the last lawsit þai were,
                                  
                                    With sorow & sad fight sailit away,
                                  
                                    Till they come to the coste of a cleane yle,
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                                    Þat Gelanda aioynet was to the iust nome.
                                  
                                    There was a kyng in þe cost, þat the kith aght,
                                  
                                    Hight Thetides truly, tellis the writ,
                                  
                                    Þat his prouyns & pepull peasably keppit
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                                    Mony wintur I-wis, & in wele leuyt.
                                  
                                    There Antenor truly turnyt to lond
                                  
                                    With a few of his feres, as fell hym by chaunse,
                                  
                                    On a plentious place, pleasaund to se
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                                    There fildis were faire, fresshe watur in,
                                  
                                    And woddes to wale with wellis full clere.
                                  
                                    There aboue on the bonke he bild vp a towne,
                                  
                                    By leue of the lord, þat the lond oght,
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                                    With Riches full Rife & Relikes of troy,
                                  
                                    Þat he broght in his barge to the bare yle.
                                  
                                    Þan he wroght vp a walle wightly abowte,
                                  
                                    With toures full tore the towne to defend.
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                                    Þai cald hit a coynt nome, comyns & all,
                                  
                                    Menelon, by mouthe, mighty & other.
                                  
                                    When hit knowen was the case with comyns of troy,

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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 404
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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