The hystorye, sege and dystruccyon of Troye
- Title
- The hystorye, sege and dystruccyon of Troye
- Author
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Publication
- [London :: Printed by Richard Pynson,
- 1513]
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- Subject terms
- Troy (Ancient city) -- Romances.
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- Cite this Item
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Contents
- text
- Tabula.
- colophon
- The Prologue of the Translatoure.
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book - 1
- Here begynneth the Troye boke / translated by Iohn̄ Lydgate monke of Bery the whiche speketh firste / How the kynge of The∣salye named Pelleus had all his men slayne by dyuyne punycyon And how thorugh his prayer he had other agayne. Ca. Primo.
- ¶How kynge Eson crowned his broder Pel∣leus kynge bycause that he was fallen in age & myght not welde it. Ca. ii.
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¶How Pelleus counsayled his neuewe Iason
by malyce to go conquere the golden
lees / and how he toke it vpon hym. Ca. iii. -
¶How Iason g
ynge to conquere the golden flees toke Lande for to refresshe hym and his fe¦lawshyp besyde Troye. Ca. iiii. - ¶How kyng Lamedone of Troyesent a mes∣senger vnto Iason / for to byd hym auoyde his Countre / and of theyr langage betwene them. Capitulo. v.
- ¶Howe Medea shewed Iason all the maner of the Conquest of the golden Flees / and how he wan it. Ca. vi.
- ¶Howe Iason toke shyppynge with his loue Medea / and sayled awaye with hir. Ca. vij.
- ¶How Iason Hercules / and all the Prynces of Grece toke theyr shyppynge / for to go and de¦stroye the cyte of Troye. Ca. viii.
- ¶How the Grekes armed them vpon the mo¦rowe / and fought with the Troyens / & discom∣fyte them / and toke theyr cyte and distroyed it. Capitulo .ix.
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book - 2
- How Lydgate complayneth hym on Fortune / for the firste dy∣struccyon of the cyte of Troye / And how he begynneth his seconde Boke folowynge the mater of the sayde storye. Capitulo .x.
- ¶How kynge Pryamus sone vnto kynge La medone buylded Troye newe agayne. Ca. xi.
- ¶How kȳg Pryamus sent Anthenor īto Grece for to haue his suster Exyone agayne. Ca. xij.
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¶How kyng Pryamus sent Parys into grece
w
t Dephebus / & other men of armes for to take vengeaūce on ye grekes / & how they toke ye fayre Helayne quene vnto Menelaus / and brought hir vnto Troye. Capitulo. xiij. - ¶How Parys was receyued at Troye / at his home comynge / and howe he wedded the fayre Eleyne. Capytulo. xiiij.
- ¶How the Grek{is} assembled them togyder for to go to Troye / and distroye it agayne for que∣ne Helaynes sake. Capitulo. xv.
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¶Of the Discripcyon of Pryamus and his
sones / and doughters / and how y
• Grekes toke lande before the Temple of Dyame y• goddesse. Capitulo. xvi. - ¶How the Grekes sente Achylles / and Pyrro des into the yle of Delos for to haue answere of the god Appollo / how they shulde spede in their Iourney. Capitulo. xvij.
- ¶How kynge Agamenon assembled the Ba∣rons of Grece afore to kepe a counsayle / And how they sent Vlixes and kynge Dyomede to kynge Pryamus on message. Ca. xix.
- ¶How kynge Agamenon / sent Achylles and Thelephus into the yle of Messa for vitaylles / and how they slewe the kynge / and made The lephus kynge after his deth. Ca. xx.
- ¶How the Grekes toke lande before Troye / & how they were strongely fought with .Ca. xxi.
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book - 3
- Here begynneth the Thyrde Boke / That telleth howe the Troy ans yssued out on the morowe and fought with the Grekes / and how valyauntly Ector bare hymselfe that daye. Capitulo .xxij.
- ¶How the Grekes sent to kynge Pryamus for to haue trewes for Eyght wekes / And of theyr Bataylles after the trewes faylled .Ca. xxiij.
- ¶Howe the Troyans toke kynge Thoas pry∣soner / and ledde hym into Troye. Ca. xxiiij.
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¶Howe durynge a Trewes of thre Monthes
Ector walked into the Grekes hooste / And of y
e cōmunycacyon of Achylles & hym. Ca. xxv. -
¶How whan y
e trewes was endyd they wente to batayle agayne / where as were many a man slayne on both partyes / And of ye Discrypcyon of ye Palays of Ylyon / And also how there dy∣ed so many grekes of the pestylence / that they de¦maunded trewes for .xxx. dayes whiche they ob¦teyned. Capitulo. xxvi. - ¶Howe Andronomecha Ectors wyfe hadde a vysyon in hir slepe / that & hir housbonde fought on the morowe that he shuld be slayne / the whi∣che wold not byleue hir / nouther Fader nor mo¦der / And how Achylles slewe hym. Ca. xxvij.
- ¶Of the complaynt that Lydgate maketh for the deth of the worthy Ector. Cap̄. xxviij.
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book - 4
- Hereafter foloweth the Fourth Boke / whiche speketh how the Grekes made kynge Pallamydes chefe Cap∣tayne of theyr Hoost / and deposed kynge Agamenon Capitulo. xxix.
- ¶How kynge Pryamus went vnto the batay¦le / for to auenge the deth of Ector / where as he dyde meruaylous dedes of Armes. Ca. xxx.
- ¶How Achylles slewe the worthy Troylus Ectors brother vnknyghtly / and trayled hym aboute the felde at his hors tayle. Ca. xxxi.
- ¶Howe Parys slewe Achylles in the Temple of Appollo / and Anthylogus duke Nestors sone Capitulo. xxxij.
- ¶Howe Parys & Thelamon Ayax slewe eche other in the felde. Capitulo. xxxiij.
- ¶How Pantasyllya / the Quene of Amazone came for to socoure kynge Pryamus of Troye And howe Pirrus Achylles sone slewe hir∴ Capitulo. xxxiiij.
- ¶How the Grek{is} made an hors of brasse wher∣in was men of Armes / & vnder coloure of peas brought it into Troye / by the whiche it was vt¦terly dystroyed for euer. Cap̄. xxxv.
- ¶Here begynneth the fyfth Boke of Troye the whiche speketh howe the Grekes retourned into Grece after the dystruccyon / And howe they were perysshed almoste all in the see / And after they that escaped dyed myscheuously. Capitulo. xxxvi.
- ¶How the translatoure wryteth the stocke of Pyrrus by lyncall dyscent / and how his Fader hyght Pelleus / & his graunmoder called The∣tydes. Capitulo xxxvij.
- ¶Of the moost noble excellent Prynce kynge Henry the fyfthe.
- ¶Lenuoye.
- ¶Verba translatoris ad librum suum.
- colophon