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The

“Gest Hystoriale”

of the

Destruction of Troy:

AN ALLITERATIVE ROMANCE

TRANSLATED FROM

GUIDO DE COLONNA'S

"Hystoria Troiana.”

NOW FIRST EDITED

FROM THE UNIQUE MS. IN THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM,

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW,

BY

THE REV. GEO. A. PANTON

AND

DAVID DONALDSON.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIET BY N. TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLXIX.

The first boke: how Kyng Pelleus exit Iason to get the

goldyn flese

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[PAGE]

[1]

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[5]

The ij boke: how the grekes toke lond vpon troy. Cawse of

the first debate

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The iij boke: how Medea enformyt Iason to get the flese of

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gold

The iiijth boke: of the distruccon of the first Troy by Ercules

[12]

[24]

The vth boke of the foundyng of new Troy, & of the qwerell

of Kyng Priam for his fader deth

The sext boke: how Kyng Priam toke counsell to wer on the

grekes

the vijth boke: how Paris went into grese for Elan

The viijth boke of the counsell of the grekes for recoueryng

[68]

[90]

[115]

· [131]

The ixth boke: of the nowmber of shippes, & the Nauy of the

grekes

The xth boke: how the grekes sent vnto delphon to haue

onswar of a god of pere Iornay

The xjth boke: how the grekes saylet fro Atthens to Troy

The xijt boke: how the grekis sent two kynges

to Kyng Priam for restitucon of pere harme

The xiijth boke: how the grekes sent Achilles and Thelæfon

for vitaill for the oste into Messan

. [135]

[148]

The xiiijth boke: how the grekes sailet fro tenedon to be-sege

of the Cité of troy, & of the counsell of Dyamed to stir

the Cité, & the deth of Prothesselon by Ector slayn, & of

the strong fight at the Ariuall

The xvth boke: of the ordinaunce of the troiens to the secund

batell, & of the deth of Patraclus by Ector slayn, & other

The xvjth boke: of a trew takyn two monythes, & of the iija batell

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The xvijth boke: of the counsell of the grekes for the deth of
Ector, & the iiijth batell

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The xviijth boke: of the fyuet batell in the feld

The xixth boke: of the sext batell

[PAGI]

[230]

· [238]

The xxth boke: of the vijth batell & skyrmychis lastyng xxx dayes betwene the towne & the tenttes

The xxjth boke of the viij batell, and of the drem of Ector wyf

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[266]

The xxij boke of the Elleuynt batell of the Cité
The xxiij boke: of the xij and the xiij batell
The xxiiij boke: of the xiiij and the xyth batell of the Cité ... [314]
The xxv boke: of the sextene, seyuentene, the eglitene, and
the xix batell

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The xxvj boke: of the xx batell of the Cité

...

The xxvij boke: of the xxj batell of the Cité of Troy

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The xxviij boke: off the councell of Eneas & Antenor of treson of the Cité

[322] [331]

[352]

[364]

[386]

The xxix boke: off the takyng of the toune & the deth of Kyng
Priam
The xxx boke: of the stryfe of Thelamon & Vlyxes, & of the
deth of Thelamon, with the exile of Eneas & Antenor .. [397]

The xxxj boke of the passage of the grekes fro Troy
The xxxij boke: of the lesyng that was made to Kyng Nawle,
& of the dethe of his son Palamydon: the dethe of Aga-
mynon, & the exile of Dyamede by pere wifes

[407]

[410]

[429]

[438]

The xxxiij boke: how Orest toke venionse for his fader dethe [423] The xxxiiij boke: how hit happit Vlixes aftur the sege The xxxv boke: of Pirrus, & his passyng ffro Troy, & of his cronyng, & of his deth The xxxvj boke, & the last of the dethe of Vlixes by his son. Whiche endis in the story wt the nome of the knight p causet it to be made, & the nome of hym that translatid it out of latyn in-to englysshe. And how long the sege last, with the nowmber of grekes & troiens that were slayn & what kynges Ector slogh: whom Paris slogh : whom Achilles slogh: whom Eneas slogh whom Pirrus slogh and Laudes deo