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.

                                
                                  And balaan bownes to þe burgh · & barres þe ȝatez.
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                                  Be þat owr kyng with hys knyghtez · was comen to þe wale,
                                
                                  Alex[ander] with an hoste · hys athell to help,
                                
                                  Fyndes a few of hys folke · feghtyng full ȝarne,
                                
                                  And a sege by hym-self · sett to a hundreth.
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                                  With þat bucifelon hys blonke · he brochys in þe sydez,
                                
                                  Spryngez forth with a spere · spyllez at þe ganest,
                                
                                  Rides euen þorow þe route · þare rankest þai were, [folio 11b] 
                                
                                  The rawes of þair arayes · he rushes to þe erth,
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                                  He strikez all þair stedes · streght downe hym before,
                                
                                  Was none so styffe in þe stoure · to stand hym ayayns;
                                
                                  Þar all þe thikest wer of thrange · thrugh þaim he rynnes,
                                
                                  And makez a way wyde enogh · waynez for to mete.
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                                  He lashes owt a lang swerde · when hys launce wantes,
                                
                                  Thristez downe in a thraw · mony thryme dokes,
                                
                                  Stirrez hym so in a stound · he and hys styff ereles,
                                
                                  Þat þar ne was bern on þe bent · bot bryttynett or ȝolden.
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                                  The segges of hys awne syde · all at he slayn fyndez,
                                
                                  He makes to grave, some in grete · some in gray marbyll.
                                
                                  And þo þat left wer on lyue · he leches þair woundez,
                                
                                  And fair fangez he hys folke · & fro þe feld turnes. [3a victoria alexandri.] 
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                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  Then prekes forth with hys pray · þus before gaders,
                                
                                  And turnes agayn toward tyre · to terme hys seige.
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                                  When he was dreven ouer þe dales · & drew to þe cite,
                                
                                  With þat he blyshys to þe burgh · & seys hys beylde woydett,
                                
                                  Also bare as ony baste · hys bastell away,
                                
                                  Bout ony buske or borde · bot þe brode water.

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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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