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.

                                
                                  Of the skaith & the skorne Ascatus hym did.
                                
                                  His beayell aboue on þe burne syde,
                                
                                  On his modur halfe, þe myld, þat I mynt first,
                                
                                  Wisly to wirke he his wit preuyt.
                                  Line 13476 
                                
                                  Two spies full spedely he sped hym to gete,
                                
                                  Triet men & tru, tristy with-all:
                                
                                  Thos he sent to Assandra, a sure mon of olde,
                                
                                  A trew mon of Thessaile, þat he trist mekyll,
                                  Line 13480 
                                
                                  A ffreike þat his fader faithfully louet,
                                
                                  And mekyll was of might in the mayn towne. [MS. has "of a might."] 
                                
                                  There þai wist all the werke & the wild craft,
                                
                                  How the purpos was put Pirrus to sle.
                                  Line 13484 
                                
                                  Þan þai lurked to þe lord lyuely agayne,
                                
                                  Made hym wise of the werke, þat þai wiste hade.
                                
                                  Þan Pirrus full prestly presit into shippe,
                                
                                  To turne vnto Thessaile, truly he thoght;
                                  Line 13488 
                                
                                  But a tempest hym toke o the torrit ythes,
                                
                                  Þat myche laburt the lede er he lond caght.
                                
                                  Þan hym happit in haste, thurgh helpe of his goddes,
                                
                                  To hit into havyn with his hoole flete,
                                  Line 13492 
                                
                                  ffro the towne of Thessaile, to telle hit full evyn,
                                
                                  Eght furlong, I fynd, & fully no more.
                                
                                  The hauyn, þat he hit to, was hard by the cave,
                                
                                  There Pelleus in pouert priuely lay. [folio 206b] 
                                  Line 13496 
                                
                                  Pirrus, wery of the water & the wild ythes,
                                
                                  Launchet vp to þe laund to laike hym a qwile.
                                
                                  Romyng on the Roces in the rough bankes,
                                
                                  fforto sport hym a space, er he sped ferre,
                                  Line 13500 
                                
                                  Hit happit hym in hast the hoole for to fynd,
                                
                                  Of the cave & the clocher, þere the kyng lay.
                                
                                  Þan he glode þurgh the greues & the gray þornes,
                                
                                  To the hed of the hole on the hext gre,
                                  Line 13504 
                                
                                  Sore longet the lede lagher to wende,
                                
                                  Sum selkowth to se the sercle with-in.
                                
                                  When he come to the cave þen the kyng rose,

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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 441
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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