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.

That the fflese þat is ffreshe flamond of gold Were brought throw þi boldness into þis byg yle And þat wold doutles be done & no dere In, Wold þu afforce þe þerfore and þe fight take, Line 228 Be of gouernance graithe & of good wille. Yiff þu puttes þe pristly þis point for to do, Thou shall arayit be full ryolle with a route noble Of my Baronage bolde & my best wise. Line 232 I shall spare for no spence & þu spede wele, And do þi deuer duly as a duke nobill: Thou shalt haue holly my hert & my helpe alse, And be lappid in my luffe all my lyffe after. Line 236 Þu may be glad for to get such a good name, And haue for þi hardynes a full hegh mede: Leve þis for lell, me list it perfourme, And to hold it with hert þat I hete nowe, Line 240 I will fayne þe [no] faintis vnder faith wordes. When my dayes be done þu shalt be Duke here, And haue þe Crowne to kepe of þis Kyd Realme; And while I liffe in this londe, no less þan my selfe, Line 244 Halfe for to haue & hold for þi name, And with all weghis to be worshipt to þe worldes ende."
WHEN PELLEUS his proses hade puplishit on highe, And all soburly said with a sad wille, Line 248 Jason was Joly of his Juste wordes, Þat in presens of the pepull þo profers were made, And mony stythe of astate stonding aboute. [folio 6a] He hedit not the harme þat in his hert lurkyt, Line 252 Ne the ffalshed he faynit vnder faire wordes; He drede no dissayet of his dere vncle, But hooped full hertely it come of hegh loue. Þen he trist hym full tyte in his tried strenght, Line 256
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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.
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Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,
1869-1874.
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Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends

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"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." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ape7380.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2025.
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