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IX. RECUFELL OF THE HISTORYES OF TROYE. 9 Iwas shedde wherwith histemple was defowlid & violid / thisis J>e firste / & ye muste go fecche fyre at the sepulture ofachilles And lighte your sacrefyce ther with / and than hitshai quenche no more / And they dide so / and the sacre- 60fyce brente cleer / And for the second myracle. she sayd tohem that for certayn the trayson was maad of the cyte wyththe grekes. Whan the grekes herde speke of these myracles.they demau;^ded of Calcas what hyt signefyed. And he saydto hem that the tradicion of the cyte shold come shortly. 65Amonge these thynges Calcas and Crisis the preest councellydthe grekes / that they shold make a grete hors ofbrasse. And that muste be as grete as myght holde with inhit a thousand knyghtes armed. And they sayd to themthat hyt was the playsir of the goddes. This hors made 70a passyng wyse mayster as Apius was. Whos name wassynon / and he maad hyt so subtylly that wyth oute forth noman coude parceyue ne see entree^ ne yssue. But wythinhyt apperyd to them that were closid ther in for to yssuewhan they wold &c. 75Wnan the hors was fuH maad. and the thousand knyghtestherein by the counseyll of Crysis / they prayed the kyngepryant that he wold suffre thys hors entre in to the cyte : andthat hit myght be sette in the temple of Pallas / for as mocheas they sayd that they had maad hyt in the honour^ of Pallas 80for a vowe that they had maad for restytucion of the Palladyumthat they hadd doon be taken oute of the sametemple &c.AMonge these thynges the prynces that were yet in troye /Whan they sawe that the kynge had so fowle and shame- 85fully trayted with the grekes they wente oute of troye andtoke theyr men with them And the kyng philemenus laddeno moo with hym but two honderd and fyfty men and sixty^ Caxton prints ' eutree.' ^ Printed ' hanour.'