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 waite on þat worthy went þai belyue.
                                
                                  Then the Seniour full sone, with seasonable windes,
                                  Line 13056 
                                
                                  Cairet fro Crete with his clene nauy,
                                
                                  Meuit vnto Mecayne with his men all,
                                
                                  And faire Elan his fere ferkit hym with.
                                
                                  To Orestes his aune cosyn angardly sade,
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                                  Noght to rest in his Rewme, ne by right haue
                                
                                  The heritage of auncetry after his fader,
                                
                                  ffor the murthe of his moder, he martired so foule.
                                
                                  Þan the grettist of grese were gedirt þerfore,
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                                  Bothe of kynges full clene, & of kid dukes,
                                
                                  To Attens, þat abill toune, angardly mony,
                                
                                  ffor to meue of þat mater, & make þere an end.
                                
                                  Then prinses full prest, and the pure kinges,
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                                  Saydon Orestes be right shuld render his londes,
                                
                                  And be exilede for euermore, as orible of dede, [folio 199b] 
                                
                                  Þat so doggetly had done to his dere moder.
                                
                                  Þan alleggit the lede to the leue prinses,
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                                  All the dere þat he did vnduly to hir,
                                
                                  Was barly by biddyng of his bright goddes,
                                
                                  Þat enformet hym before of the fete euyn.
                                
                                  The Duke of Attens full derffe dressit to say,
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                                  ffor the right of Orestes radly he proffert
                                
                                  To proue with his person & his pure strenght,
                                
                                  To the boldest in batell with his bare hond,
                                
                                  Þat he had right to his rewme, & no renke ellis;
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                                  And all the dedis he dyd were done vppon reason,
                                
                                  Evyn wroght by the wille of hor wale goddes:
                                
                                  There was no buerne with þat bold the batell to take,
                                
                                  The right to derayne with the ranke duke.
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                                  By counsell of kynges & comyn assent,
                                
                                  Thai qwite claymit the qwerell, & qwit hym þere all,

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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 427
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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