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.

                                
                                  He was mighty on molde & mekull goode hade,
                                
                                  His pride well ouerput, past into elde.
                                  Line 160 
                                
                                  This whethur and þe wole were wonderly keppit
                                
                                  By the crafte & the cure & conyng of Mars,
                                
                                  That with charmes & enchauntementes was chefe gode.
                                
                                  Thus coyntly it kept was all with clene art,
                                  Line 164 
                                
                                  By too oxen oribull on for to loke,
                                
                                  And a derfe dragon drede to be-holde.
                                
                                  These balfull bestes were, as þe boke tellus,
                                
                                  ffull flaumond of fyre with fnastyng of logh,
                                  Line 168 
                                
                                  That girde thurgh ther gorge with a grete hete
                                
                                  A nelne brode all Aboute, þat no buerne might
                                
                                  ffor the birre it abide, but he brente were.
                                
                                  And wo this wethur shuld wyn bude wirke as I say,
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                                  Ayre euyn to þe Oxen, entre hom in yoke,
                                
                                  With striffe or with stroke till þai stonde wolde;
                                
                                  Aftur ayre vp the erthe on ardagh wise.
                                
                                  Sythen drawe to þe dragon, & þe derfe qwelle,
                                  Line 176 
                                
                                  Girde out the grete teth of the grym best,
                                
                                  And alse sede in þe season sowe it on þe erthe,
                                
                                  Than a ferlyfull frute shall he fynde after:
                                
                                  The tethe shall turne tite vnto knightes
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  Armyt at all peses, able to were
                                
                                  Thai to falle vpon fight as fomen belyue,
                                
                                  With depe woundes and derfe till all be dede euyn.
                                
                                  All thes perels to passe with-outen payne other,
                                  Line 184 
                                
                                  That the flese wold fecche & ferke yt away. [folio 5a] 
                                
                                  Of this wonderfull wethur for to here more,
                                
                                  Why it kept was by craft on so coynt wyse;
                                
                                  Hit was said oft sythes and for sothe holden,
                                  Line 188 
                                
                                  That Chethes the same king had a som hoge
                                
                                  Of grete gobbettes of gold in the ground hide,
                                
                                  And so kepid it with craft of his coynt artys:

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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 7
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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