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 who so ledderys couth lache · as þe line wittnes,
                                    
                                      Wald gett þair hald with þair hand · & on-lofte wynne.
                                    
                                      So friȝt wer þase other folke · þat foghten within,
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                                      Fro [Read For.]  balaan þair bald duke · þat broght was of liue,
                                    
                                      Þat all failez þaim þe force · & so ferd worthen,
                                    
                                      Þat nowder with staffe ne with stane · withstode þai no langer.
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                                      Sir alexander with þoes athellys · & with hys awne sleghtez
                                    
                                      The toure of tire þus he tuke · and other ij burghez,
                                    
                                      In þe whilke þe sariens of þis syre · so many sorowys haddyn;
                                    
                                      All wald bot tary owr tale · þaire turment to reken. [Obsid[et] le tyre.] 
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                                      Sone als þis cite was sesyd · slayne vp & ȝolden,
                                    
                                      Þan rides forth þe riche kyng · & removes þe hoste,
                                    
                                      Gase forth to gaza · ane othre grete cite,
                                    
                                      And he settes on a sawte · and seses it beliue;
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                                      And when þis gaza was gettyn · he grathes hym swyth,
                                    
                                      And ioynes hym toward Ierusalem · þe Iewez to distroy;
                                    
                                      And ȝe þat kepys of þis carpyng · to here any ferrer,
                                    
                                      Sone sall I neuen þou þe note · þat now is next after.

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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.
Canvas: Page 79
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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