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.

                                
                                  And we went of this world, what worthe of our saules.
                                
                                  To all thing he answarit abilly me thoght,
                                
                                  But of our sawles, for-sothe, said he me noght.
                                
                                  Than went I to watur, & a winde rose,
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                                  Shot furth my shippes on the shyre ythes.
                                
                                  To a perellus plase past I fro thens,
                                
                                  And sailet þurgh a sea þere Syrens were in:
                                
                                  ffro the navell netherward noght but a fisshe,
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                                  And made as a maidon fro þe myddes vp,
                                
                                  Bothe of face & of feturs as a fre woman.
                                
                                  The songe of þo Syrens was selly to here!
                                
                                  With a ledyn full lusty & likyng with-all,
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                                  The myrthe of þaire mowthes musyk was like,
                                
                                  As to here out of heuyn the high song of blisse.
                                
                                  There folis þat faryn by fer costes,
                                
                                  Þat heron the melody, so mekill are masit in hert,
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                                  Lettyn sailis doun slyde, & in slym fallyn:
                                
                                  Nowthir stightill þai stere, ne no stithe ropes.
                                
                                  So synkes in hor sawle the song of þo bestis,
                                
                                  Thai have no dainty of drynk, ne of dere meites, [folio 203b] 
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                                  But derkon euon down on a depe slomur.
                                
                                  When the Sirens this sene, sone oponone
                                
                                  Þai wyn to the wale ship, & walton all vnder;
                                
                                  And the folke in the flete felly þai drownen:—
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                                  Þai dump in the depe, and to dethe passe.
                                
                                  My-self in thies Sirens sothely was stad,
                                
                                  With my felowes in fere, & my few shippes;
                                
                                  And with crafte of my conyng I keppit vs wele,
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                                  Þat no wegh, þat I wist, hade wille for to slepe.
                                
                                  We faght with hom felly, and flait hom so,
                                
                                  Þat a thawsaund with threpe we throng vnto dethe;

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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 434
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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