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.

                                
                                  To Askathes full skete, skethill of hor hond:
                                
                                  The ton freike of the fre, Philmen was cald;
                                
                                  The tothir mon of þo mighty, Menalipes heght.
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                                  Thies keppit hom in company with knightes full mony,
                                
                                  Till þaire cosyn wold come fro contre of troy;
                                
                                  And put hom þan prestly Pirrus to sle.
                                
                                  ffro the cite, the same tyme, sothely to tell,
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                                  Of the toune of thessaill, as the tale shewes,
                                
                                  Was a buyldyng on a banke, busshes with-in,
                                
                                  By a syde of the sea, set in a holt.
                                
                                  Betwene the biggyng on þe (burne) & þe burgh riche, [MS. has "buerne."] 
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                                  Was a wildernes wide, & wild bestes in,
                                
                                  Thedur kynges wold come, by custom of olde,
                                
                                  ffor to hunt at the hert by the holt sydes:
                                
                                  Hit was of long tyme beleft, & no lede there,
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                                  Ouergrowen with greues, & to ground fallyn.
                                
                                  There was Kaues, by course, of þe kid walles,
                                
                                  And mony holes in the howses with hurdes aboue,
                                
                                  Ouergrowen with greues and with gray thornes, [folio 206a] 
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                                  Euyn thestur and thicke, thricchet of wode,
                                
                                  With an entre full n[o]yous, narow olofte,
                                
                                  Goand downe by a grese thurgh the gray thornes.
                                
                                  In þis logge, with his lady, lurkit Pelleus,
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                                  Euer in doute of his dethe durst not appere.
                                
                                  Oft went þat wegh to the water syde,
                                
                                  The Sea for to serche, if he se might
                                
                                  Pirrus with his pepull & his prise shippes,
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                                  Come by the coste to the kyd rewme.
                                
                                  When Pirrus with his pray, & his prise knightes,
                                
                                  Hade mightely at Melapsa mendit his geire,
                                
                                  He turnyt vnto Thessaile, his tene for to venge,

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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 440
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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