THE BATTLE AT THE LANDING. The Grekes geton hor ground, þat [graidly was 189 Book XIV. The Greeks, thus encouraged, And myche comford hom the colm of pat kene gain ground: knight]: Mony woundes pai wroght, [and warpit to dethe]! 5808 Vlixes with vtteraunse vnder [his shild], and Ulysses, enemy, works (fol. 90 b.) Mony stithe in stoure stroke on [þere helmes]; Launsit, as a lyoun, þat were [lengen aboute], And of the ffrigies fell with [his fuerse dinttes]: 5812 Sum he stroke in the stoure streght to pe erthe; Pylæmenes Sum dange to the dethe, & derit full mykyll. The proud kyng of Pafligon persayuit his dede, struck him to the One Philmene, a freike of the ferre halue,— 5816 He gird hym to ground with a grym speire; ground with a And he fell vppon fote, faght with the kyng. 5820 pat hit shot prough the shilde & pe shire maile, Hade no strenght for to stond, 3et he stert vp, 5824 And frusshit at Philmene with a fyn launse. bat he breke þurgh the burd to the bare throte; 5828 Hurlet burghe the hawbergh, hurt hym full sore; The gret vayne of his gorge gird vne ysondur, 5832 The Troiens for pat tulke had tene at hor hert; [He] for ded of pe dynt was drest on his shild, 5836 [And bou]rne on the burde to þe burgh hom; [For the de]the of þis duke doll was ynogh nother He is again dashed to the ground with a sore wound; but starting up he With all the might & the mayn, pat the mon hade, hurls him to the ground. The Trojans drag him from the ground and carry him to the city on his shield. Book XIV. (fol. 91 a.) Menelaus and his men then land, dash into the Protesilaus, worn out with his long, hard struggle, battle to aid their friends, and sorely oppress the 5848 And fellon vnto fight pere feres to helpe, Trojans. [Myche harm to pem] happit here at þis tyme! 5840 [The Grekes were] so grym þat were to ground comyn, [Mony dukes were] ded of pe derfe Troiens. 5844 [Come launchond to] lonnd and hor lordes all: Halet vp horses, highet olofte; When he saw that all his band had perished, he was overcome with grief and rage. hat were strongly be-stad in a stoure hoge. To the Troiens pai turnyt & mekill tene wroght! The frusshe was so felle, po fuerse men betwene, 5852 Crakkyng of cristis, crusshyng of speiris, The clynke & pe clamour claterit in the aire, And mony dongen to dethe of the derfe Troiens. lond now withdraws from the battle to 5860 ffirst in the forward, pat his folke lost, rest a little on the bank. 5864 5868 5872 He was wery for-wroght, & woundet full sore,- bere pe fight was first, & the folke drounet; THE BATTLE AT THE LANDING. Of his folke þat were fallyn vnto fell dethe, Hard highet vnto horse with a hert pro, fforto felle of pe ffrigies felly he poght. 5876 Onon with a naked sword neghit to batell, Vne wode of his wit as a wild lyon,. Mony breme on þe bent brittoned to ground. 5880 Myche tene pe Troiens tid of his hond! As fresshe to pere fos as at the first tyme, All the batell to pe bonke, & mony buerne slogh. here the grekes hade ben grymly gird vnto dethe, 5892 Ne hade Palomedon, the prise kyng, preset to lond, With fele fightyng folke of fuerse men of armys; Wonyn on wightly, wentyn to batell, 5896 His folke to refresshe with a fyn wille. 191 The assembly was sorer o pe se banke ; Mony deghit full dernly, dole to be-holde! Then the grekes agayne geton þere hertes, 5900 And myche comford kaght of his come pen. This Palomydon paynyt hym pepull to slee, And mony woundys he wroght in his wild yre. He soght to on Symagon, a sad mon of armys,5904 Kyng Merion pe mighty was his met brother, pat fele had confoundit of the fuerse grekes ;— He bere to be bold with a big sworde, And rof þurgh the Ribbes right to be hert, Book XIV. Then Perses the proude kyng prise mon of ynde, 5884 At whose come the cuntre-men comford were all, The Trojans again take heart, and And restoret the stithe fight stuernly agayn; Rushing against the enemy, he (fol. 91 b.) cut down a great many. press the Greeks back to the shore. But for the arrival of Palamedes, they would have been destroyed. The Greeks then recover themselves; and Palamedes, meeting Symagon, drives his sword into his heart. Book XIV. (fol. 92 a.) Such havoc ho works among the Trojans, that they scatter and begin to flee; but the noise of the battle had reached the ears of Hector, and he rushes to their assistance. Driving in among He presses to and with a fierce swing of his sword clove him to the middle, 5908 þat he fell of his horse flat to be ground, Palomydon preset furth into pe prise batell; Mony tulke out of Troy tyrnyt to dethe; 5912 Mony knight don cast to pe cold erthe. All were ferd of þe freike, fled of his way; Durst no buerne on hym bate for his bold dedis. 5916 pat the Troiens for tene might tary no lengur ; But with prise of Palomydon put all abake, Vne boun fro pe batell busket to fle, 5920 Vntill Ector eris hit entrid belyue The great noise of þe noy, þat in note was. 5928 þat were shapon on his shild, shalkes to be holde. He gird to the grekes with a grym yre ; In the brest of the batell, pere buernes were thicke, He ffrusshet so felly freikes to ground; 5932 Made wayes full wide pe weghis among; Shot thurgh the sheltrons, shent of pe pepull. To Prothesselon he preset, þat pepull hade slayn, And myche wo had wroght on pe wild troiens. THE DETHE OF PROTHESSOLON BY ECTOR SLAYN. 5936 He swappit at hym swithe with a swerd felle ; Hit on his hede a full hard dynt ; Clefe purghe the criste & the clene maile; THE BATTLE AT THE LANDING. Slit hym down sleghly thurghe the slote euyn, 5940 Bode at the belt stid, and the buerne deghit. Then leuet he the lede, launchet on ferre, Mony dange to the dede with dynt of his hond: 5944 Mony brem in the batell britnet to dethe, Thai fled fro the fase of his felle dynttes, 5952 So bold was no buerne his bir to withstond, Ne pe caupe of his kene sword kast hom to mete. Whill he bode in the batell, pe buerne with his honde 193 ben þai knowen by course of his clene shap, The Greeks knightes. upon them, and no one dares to oppose him. Mony grekes with grem he gird to the dethe. 5956 All failit pere forse, feblit þere herttes, The batell on backe was borne to be se. Left his feris in þe fild fightyng full hard. 5964 Then grekes agayne getton þere herttes, ffrushet pe ffrigies felly to ground; So hit tid hom tensiche betymys þat day. But þe Troiens full tore turnyt agayne, 5968 ffoghten so felly, frunt hom o backe, Kyld mony knightes, cacchit on hard, Greuyt so the grekes, pai graithet to fle, Were borne to pe banke with baret ynogh. 5972 Then Achilles the choise cheuyt to land, Book XIV. Their courage fails, and they are driven back to the sea. Hector quits the field for a time. The Greeks again take heart; make a rush on the enemy, but are driven back with much loss. (fol. 93 a.) |