Lydgate's Fall of Princes Edited by Dr. Henry Bergen ... presented to The Early English Text Society by The Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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[Of kyng Yero, Cornelie, and Hanybal.] |
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[Of kyng Yero, Cornelie, and Hanybal.]
Afftir whos deth þus wrouht bi violence,
[As] the stori remembreth proceedyng,
Foorth cam Yero & shewed his presence,
Of Siracuse the myhti stronge kyng,
Tofor Bochas ful pitousli pleynyng,
Besechyng hym with a ful pitous cheere
Of his myscheef to writen the maneere.
[As] the stori remembreth proceedyng,
Foorth cam Yero & shewed his presence,
Of Siracuse the myhti stronge kyng,
Tofor Bochas ful pitousli pleynyng,
Besechyng hym with a ful pitous cheere
Of his myscheef to writen the maneere.
The which Yero, wilful & furious,
List to presume of fals rebellioun
For to debate with Appius Claudius,
And to maligne ageyn[es] Rome toun.
But he anon for his presumpcioun
Constreyned was, in al his moste pride,
Lik a coward to fleen & nat abide.
List to presume of fals rebellioun
For to debate with Appius Claudius,
And to maligne ageyn[es] Rome toun.
But he anon for his presumpcioun
Constreyned was, in al his moste pride,
Lik a coward to fleen & nat abide.
No mor of hym myn auctour writeth heer,
But in his book[e] as he doth proceede,
Ther cam Cornelie, of Rome a consuleer,
Hymsilff compleynyng of the gret falsheede
Which onto hym acomplisshed was in deede,
Bassuraunce broke, of olde Hanybal,
Which of Cartage was cheeff admyral.
But in his book[e] as he doth proceede,
Ther cam Cornelie, of Rome a consuleer,
Hymsilff compleynyng of the gret falsheede
Which onto hym acomplisshed was in deede,
Bassuraunce broke, of olde Hanybal,
Which of Cartage was cheeff admyral.
To this Cornelie Hanybal was sworn
With the Affricanes bamaner flaterie,
To socoure hym, as I ha[ue] tolde toforn,
With the Romeyns to holde up his partie.
But whan thei mette, the book doth specefie,
Corneli take & fetrid in prisoun,
At myscheeff deied; ther geyned no raunsoun.
With the Affricanes bamaner flaterie,
To socoure hym, as I ha[ue] tolde toforn,
With the Romeyns to holde up his partie.
But whan thei mette, the book doth specefie,
Corneli take & fetrid in prisoun,
At myscheeff deied; ther geyned no raunsoun.
Than Hanybal entred of entent
With his knihtis inta gret cite
Of Cicile callid Agrigent,
Wher Iulius Silua, of old enmyte,
Leid a siege with a gret meyne,
That he constreyned the saide Hanybal
For verray hunger to lepe ouer the wal.
With his knihtis inta gret cite
Of Cicile callid Agrigent,
Wher Iulius Silua, of old enmyte,
Leid a siege with a gret meyne,
That he constreyned the saide Hanybal
For verray hunger to lepe ouer the wal.
Bi a posterne he took hym to the fliht,
Gadred shippis & took the Large Se.
And Iulius Silua, lik a manli kniht,
Fauht with hym, & made hym for to flee,
Vpon the watir; [&] anon aftir he
Was of his knihtes stoned to the deth,
And so constreyned he yald up the breth.
Gadred shippis & took the Large Se.
And Iulius Silua, lik a manli kniht,
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Vpon the watir; [&] anon aftir he
Was of his knihtes stoned to the deth,
And so constreyned he yald up the breth.
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