[6-text p 275] , [6-text p 276]
The wreche of god / hym smoot so cruelly
That thurgh his body / wikked wormes crepte
And ther-with-al / he stank horriblely
That noon of al his meynee / þat hym kepte
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Wheither so he wook or ellis slepte
Ne myghte noght for stynk of hym endure
In this meschief / he wayled and eek wepte
And knew god / lord of euery creature
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To all his hoost and to hym self also [folio 179b]
fful wlatsom was / the stynk of his careyne
No man / ne myghte hym bere / to ne fro
And in this stynk and this horrible peyne
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He starf ful wrecchedly / in a Monteyne
Thus hath this Robbour / and this homycide
That many a man / made to wepe and pleyne
Swich gerdon / as bilongeth vn-to pryde
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[Alexander the Great.]
The storie of Alisaundre / is so commune [¶ De Alex|andro]
That euery wight that hath discrecioun
Hath herd somwhat or al / of his ffortune
This wyde world / as in conclusioun
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He wan by strengthe / or for his hye renoun
They weren glad / for pees vn-to hym sende
The pride / of man and beest / he leyde adoun
Wher so he cam / vn-to the worldes ende
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Comparison / myghte neuere yet been maked
Bitwixen hym / and another Conquerour
ffor al this world / for drede of hym hath quaked
He [was] of knyghthod and of fredom flour
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ffortune hym made / the heir of hire honour
Saue wyn and wommen / no man mighte aswage
His hye entente in Armes and labour
So was he ful / of leonyn corage
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