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.

                                
                                  Þat were þin emys full nobill, nayt men of will;
                                  Line 13600 
                                
                                  And now Aschatus with skath wold skirme to þe deth,
                                
                                  Þat is my fader so fre, and þi first graunser."
                                
                                  Þen Pirrus full pertly to þat prise saide:— [folio 208a] 
                                
                                  "Has not þi fader full foule flemyt myn ayell,
                                  Line 13604 
                                
                                  Pelleus, of his promys, þin awne prise husbond.
                                
                                  Let cal vs þe kyng fro þe caue sone,
                                
                                  If he will spare hym to spill, I spede me þerto."
                                
                                  Pelleus come prestly, praid for þe kyng:—
                                  Line 13608 
                                
                                  "Hit suffis," he saide, "þe slagh of his childur,
                                
                                  Þe bold, þat were britnet on þe bent syde."
                                
                                  Þen acord was þer knyt þo kyngis betwene,
                                
                                  ffull frenchip and fyn festnyt with hond.
                                  Line 13612 
                                
                                  Þer þai setyn on þe soile, þo souerans togedur,
                                
                                  The two kyngis full kant, and þe clene qwene,
                                
                                  And Pirrus, þe pert knyght, prudly besyde.
                                
                                  Aschatus þen skepe furth with his skire wordis,
                                  Line 13616 
                                
                                  Þat was kyng of þe cost by conquest til þen:—
                                
                                  "I am febyll and vnfere fallyn into elde,
                                
                                  Any rem forto rewle, or to ryde furth:
                                
                                  My sons now are slayn, & slungyn to ground,
                                  Line 13620 
                                
                                  Þat I had purpost þis prouyns playnly to haue.
                                
                                  Now lengis þer no lede, þat by lyne aw,
                                
                                  Þe soile and þe septur sothly to weld,
                                
                                  But Pirrus, of prowes pertist in armys.
                                  Line 13624 
                                
                                  Dernyst & derne, myn awne dere cosyn,
                                
                                  I releshe þe my ryght with a rank will,
                                
                                  And graunt þe þe gouernanse of þis grete yle."
                                
                                  Pelleus hit plesit, & playnly he saide:—
                                  Line 13628 
                                
                                  "And my ryght I renonse to þat rynk sone,
                                
                                  ffor it was playnly my purpos þat Pirrus schuld haue,
                                
                                  Þe terrage of tessayle and þe tryed corone."
                                
                                  Þen ros þai full radly, raght vnto horse,
                                  Line 13632 
                                
                                  Wanen vp wightly, wentyn to towne.

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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 445
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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