The wars of Alexander: an alliterative romance translated chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de preliis. Re-edited from ms. Ashmole 44, in the Bodleian library, Oxford, and ms. D.4.12, in the library of Trinity college, Dublin: by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat.

                                
                                  The morte of all þe masydons · & of þe mony grekez,
                                
                                  Rekens hym þe resons · þat reuth was to here.
                                  Line 1280 
                                
                                  With þat þe comle kynge · chakez hys bernes,
                                
                                  Semblett Hym A Hoge soume · & fro þe seige wendys, [folio 11a] 
                                
                                  The toure of tyre & þe towne · titely he levys,
                                
                                  And ioynes hym to Iosaphatt · full ioyles to ryde.
                                  Line 1284 
                                
                                  Ay he gretes as he goys · þe grefe of hys knyghtez,
                                
                                  Ay he plenys as he passez · þe pite of hys Ereles,
                                
                                  Ay he wepys as he wendes · for hys wale princes,
                                
                                  And souerandly for sampson · he sorows euerilyke.
                                  Line 1288 
                                
                                  When he was turnyd froward tyre · toward þe wale,
                                
                                  The werk at he wroght had · þe water within,
                                
                                  Þat he hed sett in þe see · þe cite withowte,
                                
                                  Thare-in he left hed a lityll [Read lede.]  · [þe] loge for to kepe.
                                  Line 1292 
                                
                                  Bott þen sir balaan, a berne · þat in þe burgh lenged,
                                
                                  One of þe tiraundez of tire · atired hym belyue,
                                
                                  Buskes hym in brenes · with big men of armes,
                                
                                  With trawynns & trebgetes [MS. trelgetes.]  · þe towre to assaylle.
                                  Line 1296 
                                
                                  He bekers owt at þe beld · ouer þe brade walle,
                                
                                  And þai within [MS. withowt within.]  þe werk · wightly defenden,
                                
                                  Shoton sharply bytwene · swappyn owt dartez;
                                
                                  Weres wondrely wele · warpyn owt stanes.
                                  Line 1300 
                                
                                  Bot balaan in þe britage · so bitterly feghtez,
                                
                                  All to-combers þaim clene · with cast of engynes.
                                
                                  Sone þe toppe of þe toure · he typys in þe water,
                                
                                  And all þe tulkez in þe teld · he termys þe lyve;
                                  Line 1304 
                                
                                  Than in bargez & in botez · he bownes hym swyth,
                                
                                  To þe bothom of þe bastell · he buskez hym withowte,
                                
                                  Bretens downe all þe belde · & þe bernes whelles,
                                
                                  Drenches hir in þe depe · & drawes hir on hepys.
                                  Line 1308 
                                
                                  When it was smytyn so in small · within þe smert wawes,
                                
                                  Ilke gobett fro oþer · glydes [MS. gydes, corr. to glydes.]  fast þair way.
                                
                                  Thus þis strenth ilke steke · in a stound wastyd,

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Title: The wars of Alexander: an alliterative romance translated chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de preliis. Re-edited from ms. Ashmole 44, in the Bodleian library, Oxford, and ms. D.4.12, in the library of Trinity college, Dublin: by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat.
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1886.
Subject terms: Alexander, -- the Great, -- 356-323 B.C. -- Romances.

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