4088 4092 AND THEIR SQUADRONS. ffyfte shippes in fere to the fflete broght. Aiax œlius, aunterous in werre, Book IX. with 50 ships 133 Ajax Oileus, with others. Thretty shippes full thriste throng into hauyn; 30 ships, and 6 Amphimacus from Thracia, with 50 ships. Eumelus from Polibos, a proude kyng, & his pere Amphimake,- Polybetes and hai come out of Calydon with a clene pepull; And foure scoure fyne shippes to the flete broght. Out of Trasy pere turnet triet Vlexes the kyng, Ulysses from With fyfty, in a furthe, all of fuerse vesell. Duke Melios the mighty met in a hauyn, And soght fro his Cité sothely of Pygre, With Elenon od shippes abill to werre. Poterhas & Protesselon, po proude Dukes twoo, pai fecchid out of Philace, pat was pere fre londe, 4100 ffyfté shippes in fere, & fore vnto Attens. 4096 Phere, with 11 ships. Podarces and Protesilaus from ships. Machaon and Achilles froin Phthiotis, with 50 ships. Machaon & Polidus, pris kynges bothe, Rufirus the ryche raght fro his Rewme, 4112 Two Dukes full derke droghen in fere, Enerdond by hor one, & Elyda hit hight. bai broght to the Brym XL bigge shippes. Polibethes, a proud kyng, pert of his dedis, 4120 He broght to the brym barges eleivan, Prothylus, a pert kyng, put on the water Telephus, king of (Rhodes) Euryalus from Sicyon, with 50 ships. Antiphus and Polypotes, with 11 ships. Prothylus, or Prothous, with 50 ships. Book IX. (Lacedæmon) (Guneus, king of Cyphius) Diores from Boeotia, with 32 ships. 'The allies of the Greeks were 69 in all, and the number of their ships was 1232; not including Palamedes, who joined them some time after. flyfté shippes fyn, full of folke all, Of Deymon duly, his owne dere londe. 4124 Kyng Sapmon for sothe soght fro pat hauyn, With alsmony abill shippes auntrid hym seluyn, bat Capidoise cald is, the cuntre so hat. Theorius, a tryet kyng, toke fro his Rewme, 4128 And broght of his brode londe, pat Boisa is callid, Two & thretty thried shippes prast full of pepull. to telle, Of kynges full kene, & of kyde Dukes, 4132 The sowme for to set was sexty & nene. The nowmber of the noble shippes, pat to pe note yode, ffor to telle hom by tale, was truly a thowsaund Twa hundrethe & twenty, & twelue o pe last, 4136 Without Palomydon þe proude, pat preset hom after With a nauy full noble ;-Nawlus son the grete. hauyn, hen come pai to counsell, as I shall kythe after. Tent Boke. How the Grekes sent vnto Delphon to have onsware of a god of 4140 Lenge Lenge we a little with lykyng, to telle How thies kynges with hor knightes carpyn to gedur. When all were at Attens, aunter befell, Agamynon the gret gedrit in fere, (fol. 65 a.) While the fleet lay at Athens, Agamemnon 4144 Into a place þat was playne without the assembled the prise Cité, There Setis for po souerans Sothely was maked, ffor kynges pat pere come & other kyde Dukes, 4148 When all set were in sercle pe souerayn aboute, 4152 4156 What bolde ye haue broght into pis brode hauyn ! What fighting folke yche freike has! Who sothely hath sene soche a pepull ere? Neuer wegh, as I wene, syn þe world stode, 4160 Se at a Semly soche a sight hoole leaders to a council. Speech of "Renowned princes! who, with your hosts, have joined this expedition, look around you! Never has there Book X. been such a fleet assembled; never such hosts of warriors, young and old! Surely they are blinded with rage Of kynges in a company, & of kyde Dukes, Ne of one purpas in a place pepull so fele ; 4164 So mony yong men & 3epe, zenerus of wille; So od men in armys, & egur to fight, To fare in a furde our fos to distroy. bai are blyndit with baret & with bare sorow, who have roused 4168 þat wackons vp werre, & wrathus vs in hert, us to war. (fol. 65 b.) The purpose of this expedition is known to all. It is to take vengeance on the Trojans for the villany they have wrought. Honour must be upheld, and Or stiris vs with strenght vpon stuerne wise. 4172 Perfourme our purpos, and put it to end, hat we so mony and so mighty are meuyt to do. 4184 All somyn by Assent, with a sad wille disgrace must be 4188 And wipe of our wranges, & wirdis vs done; avenged; So pat Troiens fro pis tyme take not on honde To aspye vs with spite in no spede efte. þat all þe weghes of þe world be warnit by hom, 4192 And pat no tale may be told in tyme for to come, Ne witnes in writyng by weghes herafter, hat any lord of our londe shuld lacche soche a skorne THE COUNSEL OF AGAMEMNON. Vnwrokyn with wondis: þat weghes may knowen, 4196 Ne we, þat are so worthy & wight men ynogh, Shall not slely let slide, ne slip out of mynde, bat our successoures may say sothely, ne holde Dyssehonour of our dedys, & dem vs for feble. 4200 Syn we now bene of noble men in nowmber so fele, And of strenght so stern stondyng in one, Who is now so qweme or qwaint of his wit, Book X. that posterity 137 may not hold us in dishonour. Who so bold, or so foolish, as to That couthe mesure our might, or with mouthe defy the might of tell 4204 The pouer of our pepull, & our playn strenght? 4208 þat vnwysely has wroght with wyttis full febill, Ne mynd not þes men of pe mykyll harme, That a sone of our folke before hom has done, 4212 When lamydon was lord & pe lond eght, That was fader to the freike that offens mas; 4216 And fele of his folke fongit on lyue, 4220 No vnpossibill, thys pupull perfourme in dede, That fyuetymes fewer before home has done. That we purpos a pouer to put in hor lond, (fol. 66 a.) such an alliance ? None but the who have had already a specimen of our power and our vengeance. They know us their allies oppose us. |