The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun printed on parallel pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss mss., with the variants of the other texts: Edited with introduction, notes, and glossary by F. J. Amours |
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 | CHAPTER LXI. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun |  |
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CHAPTER LXI.
How Hannaball throu aventure
Wincust of Rome alhale þe floure.
Wincust of Rome alhale þe floure.
Twa hundreth winter and nynetene
Or lichtare wes þe Madyn schene,
Hannaball with his empyre,
Off Affrik þan baith lord and syre,
Passit in to Spayne, and þare a tovne
Famouss and of gret renovne,
Dagout be name, assegit he,
And straitly gert it kepit be
Fra all proffittis and wittale,
Quhill thai within begouth to faill
Throu defalt and hunger saire,
And sa of neid thai ȝoldin were
And deliuerit wes the tovne,
And he till erd gert cast it doune,
For causs in auld tyme that it
To Rome wes in frendschip knyt.
The Romanis þan of þare entent
To Hannaball gret message sent,
Bot on na kyne wiss wald he
The messingeris with eyne se,
Na ȝit nane of thare message heire,
Na speir quhare with thai chargeit were.
In Rome that tyme Publyus
Scypro and Sympronyus
Chosin were thre consules,
And gouernand þare office wes
Quhen Hannaball with his powere
Come with his ost in gret effere,
Out of the montis of Peremy
The nerrest way to Ytaly.
With gret travale as he past
In Ytaly ȝit at þe last
He come þidder with gret payne,
And with his oste þare tuke þe plane.
He wes fully reknyt þen
Ane hundreth thousand of futmen,
And xx. thousand men or horss,
Faire of fassone and of corss.
Or lichtare wes þe Madyn schene,
Hannaball with his empyre,
Off Affrik þan baith lord and syre,
Passit in to Spayne, and þare a tovne
Famouss and of gret renovne,
Dagout be name, assegit he,
And straitly gert it kepit be
Fra all proffittis and wittale,
Quhill thai within begouth to faill
Throu defalt and hunger saire,
And sa of neid thai ȝoldin were
And deliuerit wes the tovne,
And he till erd gert cast it doune,
For causs in auld tyme that it
To Rome wes in frendschip knyt.
The Romanis þan of þare entent
To Hannaball gret message sent,
Bot on na kyne wiss wald he
The messingeris with eyne se,
Na ȝit nane of thare message heire,
Na speir quhare with thai chargeit were.
In Rome that tyme Publyus
Scypro and Sympronyus
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And gouernand þare office wes
Quhen Hannaball with his powere
Come with his ost in gret effere,
Out of the montis of Peremy
The nerrest way to Ytaly.
With gret travale as he past
In Ytaly ȝit at þe last
He come þidder with gret payne,
And with his oste þare tuke þe plane.
He wes fully reknyt þen
Ane hundreth thousand of futmen,
And xx. thousand men or horss,
Faire of fassone and of corss.
Scipro, at þat tyme was
Ane chosin of the consules,
In to þe plane faucht with him thare,
And woundit Hannaball rycht saire.
For to reherse ȝow now schortly,
The Romanis were alhalely
There with the Affricanis quyt
In to that batall discomfit;
And efter quhen Sympronyus
Had herd how þat it hapnit þus
Till his fallow Scipione,
With his oste he come onone,
And fifty of his feris all
Faucht fast with this Hannaball;
Bot ȝit the Romanis neuerþeles
In þat batall discomfit wes,
Sa Scipio wes wonder fayne
That he wan fra þe fycht vnslane,
All him alane foroutin ma.
As he þan saw þe fortoune ga,
Quhen all the victory wes done,
This Hannaball with his oste sone
Past in Tuskane with gret faire
Within the first moneth of waire,
And held furth with his batallis syne
Towart the monthis of Appennyne,
Quhare þan sa thik þe snaw fell,
With hailstanes rycht sharp and snell,
That all his oliphantis thare,
Horss and catall perist ware.
This Hannaball ȝit neuerþeles
Wist weill þat Schir Flawme wes
Left in þe tentis him allane,
Quhare all þe Romanis wer ourtane;
Than hastely he turnyt agane,
Him till haif tane or þan haif slane,
Bot Flawme with his cumpany
Recounterit him rycht manfully;
Bot ȝit with gile þis Hannaball
Him and his þare discomfit all,
Sa þat of þe Romanis haill
Deid and slane in that batall
Were xxv. thousand neire,
And sex thousand als takin were.
Ane chosin of the consules,
In to þe plane faucht with him thare,
And woundit Hannaball rycht saire.
For to reherse ȝow now schortly,
The Romanis were alhalely
There with the Affricanis quyt
In to that batall discomfit;
And efter quhen Sympronyus
Had herd how þat it hapnit þus
Till his fallow Scipione,
With his oste he come onone,
And fifty of his feris all
Faucht fast with this Hannaball;
Bot ȝit the Romanis neuerþeles
In þat batall discomfit wes,
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That he wan fra þe fycht vnslane,
All him alane foroutin ma.
As he þan saw þe fortoune ga,
Quhen all the victory wes done,
This Hannaball with his oste sone
Past in Tuskane with gret faire
Within the first moneth of waire,
And held furth with his batallis syne
Towart the monthis of Appennyne,
Quhare þan sa thik þe snaw fell,
With hailstanes rycht sharp and snell,
That all his oliphantis thare,
Horss and catall perist ware.
This Hannaball ȝit neuerþeles
Wist weill þat Schir Flawme wes
Left in þe tentis him allane,
Quhare all þe Romanis wer ourtane;
Than hastely he turnyt agane,
Him till haif tane or þan haif slane,
Bot Flawme with his cumpany
Recounterit him rycht manfully;
Bot ȝit with gile þis Hannaball
Him and his þare discomfit all,
Sa þat of þe Romanis haill
Deid and slane in that batall
Were xxv. thousand neire,
And sex thousand als takin were.
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