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.

                                
                                  Than murnes all þe masidons · & felly wer trublett,
                                
                                  And alexander was also · awgerdly grevyde,
                                
                                  So wer þai turblett of þe towne · qwen þai þar tild myssyd,
                                
                                  That of þe takyng of tire · tristed þai no lenger.
                                  Line 1344 
                                
                                  And so hym-selfe in hys slepe · þe same nyght after,
                                
                                  Hym toght [Sic in MS.]  he had in hys hand · a held of a wyne,
                                
                                  A growen grope of a gripe · a grett & a rype,
                                  Line 1347 
                                
                                  Þe whilke he flonge of þe floure · & with hys fete tredes;
                                
                                  And when he brokyn hed þe bery · als þe bern semys,
                                
                                  þar flowe owt of fresh wynne · flodez enowe;
                                
                                  So largly & so delavy · of liquor hym thynkez,
                                
                                  Of ane raysyn to ryn · þat was a gret wondre.
                                  Line 1352 
                                
                                  Þe kynge callez a clerke · kenely on þe morne,
                                
                                  Als radly as euer he rose · to rachen hym hys swevyn.
                                
                                  "Sir, beys dred neuer a dele" · þe devinour hym sayde,
                                
                                  "I vndertake it on my trewth · tyre is þi nawne;
                                  Line 1356 
                                
                                  For þe bery þat þou brake · þat is þe burgh euen,
                                
                                  That shal be sesyd þe ful sone · & to þi-seluen ȝolden, [folio 12a] 
                                
                                  For þou sall eft in ernest · enter þe walles,
                                
                                  And fell hir vnder fote · within a few days."
                                  Line 1360 
                                
                                  Now Compas kenely þe kyng · & castes in hys mynd
                                
                                  How he couth in ony case · come to þe cyte,
                                
                                  Devynez deply on days · dropes mony willes,
                                
                                  If he couht seke ony sleght · þat hym serue wald;
                                  Line 1364 
                                
                                  And makes to sett in þe see · right in þe same place,
                                
                                  Þair as þe tild þat he bild · bigget was frist,
                                
                                  To stabill vp a strenth · all of store schippes,
                                
                                  Hoger by þe halfe dele · & hyer þen þat oþer;
                                  Line 1368 
                                
                                  And þat he feghys & fermes · so fast to þe wall,
                                
                                  So negh þat vnneth a nedyll · myght narowly bytwene,
                                
                                  And band hir, as þe boke says · bigly to-geder,

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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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