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.

                                
                                  Schamyt with þe schalke, that schent of his wife,
                                
                                  And so dernely hym did dere & dispit.
                                  Line 13700 
                                
                                  He had playnly no power Pirrus to harme,
                                
                                  To his reme forto ride & reue hym þe qwene;
                                
                                  But he cast hym by course, if a case fell, [folio 209b] 
                                
                                  To venge of his vilany & his vile schame.
                                  Line 13704 
                                
                                  Þen Pirrus by purpos prestly con wend
                                
                                  Into delphon a day, as þe dule bad,
                                
                                  In honour of apolyn, þat abill to seche,
                                
                                  And worchip with wyn, as a wale god,
                                  Line 13708 
                                
                                  With sacrifice solemne & othir sere halows,
                                
                                  ffor offens of his fadur, þat felli was slayne
                                
                                  With Paris, þe pert knyght, as preuyt is before.
                                
                                  In aparell of prise, on a proud wyse,
                                  Line 13712 
                                
                                  He dight hym to delphon with dukis & othir.
                                
                                  In his palais of prise prudly he leuyt
                                
                                  Worthi Ectors wif, þat þe whe had,
                                
                                  Andromoca, in drede, and her dere son
                                  Line 13716 
                                
                                  Lamydon þe litill, þat ho left neuer,
                                
                                  And ho boundyn with barne with þe bold Pirrus:
                                
                                  And Ermonia þe myld maynly was ther,
                                
                                  Þat he had weddit to wyue, & in wrong held.
                                  Line 13720 
                                
                                  Wen Pirrus was past, þis proud in hir yre,
                                
                                  A mon vnto Menelay myghtily sende,
                                
                                  Bad hym turne vnto tessail in a tore hast,
                                
                                  Andromaca to dere, & to deth put;
                                  Line 13724 
                                
                                  ffor Pirrus of þat pert was pristly enamurt,
                                
                                  He had no daynté with dalianse his doghter to loue.
                                
                                  Þe whe, at þe wordis of his wale doghter,
                                
                                  Turnet vnto tessale with a tore ffare.
                                  Line 13728 
                                
                                  He wold haue britnet þe burd with a bare sword,
                                
                                  And schunt for no schame, but hit schope faire.
                                
                                  Andromaca, for drede of þe derf kyng,
                                
                                  Lamydon hir litill sun laght in hir armes,
                                  Line 13732 
                                
                                  Hyghet out of halle into hegh strete,

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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 448
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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