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.

                                
                                  He was neghbur full negh to þe noble yle,
                                
                                  There Agamynon the gode gouernaunce hade;
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                                  And was Enmy full euyn to Engest with-all,
                                
                                  And held wer with þat wegh winturs full mony.
                                
                                  This Forenses with fyne will faithfully prayet,
                                
                                  Þat he might ryde with þat Orest & his ranke oste,
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                                  To Ioyne with Engest for his vniust werkes,
                                
                                  With þre hundrith þrifty, all of þr[i]ed knightes:
                                
                                  And he þriftely, with þro hert, þanket the kyng.
                                
                                  And so busket the bold fro the burgh sone.
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                                  Hit was the moneth of May when mirthes begyn;
                                
                                  The Sun turnyt into tauro, taried þere vnder; [folio 198a] 
                                
                                  Medos & mountains mynget with floures;
                                
                                  Greues wex grene, & the ground swete;
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                                  Nightgalis with notes newit þere songe,
                                
                                  And shene briddes in shawes shriked full lowde.
                                
                                  Orestes full rad, with his ranke knightes,
                                
                                  And Forenses, the fuerse kyng, faryn of toune.
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                                  Þai meuit vnto messan with þere men hole.
                                
                                  All refusit hom the folke of þe fyne plase.
                                
                                  When he segh þat the Cité sate in defens,
                                
                                  He besegit hit full sadly vppon sere halues,
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                                  Þat no buerne of the burgh durst to bent come:
                                
                                  And so keppit he the close of his clene Cité.
                                
                                  He had answare of Appolyn abill before,
                                
                                  Þat he his fomen shuld fell & his folke wyn,
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                                  And his moder for hir malice martur to dethe,
                                
                                  ffor all the helpe þat ho háde & the hegh walles.
                                
                                  This Engest with Iolite & Iournay was gone,
                                
                                  To secche hym sum frekes with hor fyn helpus,
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                                  Of Bachelers & bowmen the burgh to defend.
                                
                                  Orestes full radly the Renke hade aspiet,
                                
                                  What way þat he went, as weghes hym told.
                                
                                  He purpast hym priuely in pathes to lye.

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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 424
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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