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.

                                
                                  Þus send I to my satraparis · my princes & my dukes,
                                
                                  My pers out of [MS. oft.]  siphagoyne · salutis & grace,
                                
                                  Of þe sele of Surry · my seggis & myn erles,
                                  Line 2760 
                                
                                  My kniȝtis out of Capados · & all my kid lordis,
                                
                                  Þe ledis out of Landace · & all þe landis out-by.
                                
                                  I comand ȝow on þe clere faithe · þat ȝe my croune aȝe,
                                
                                  Þat belyue to Alysaundire · þat is myn awen cite,
                                  Line 2764 
                                
                                  Þat ilkane of ȝow send be your-selfe · of sere slayn bestis,
                                
                                  Of fresch & of fyne wroȝt · fellis a thousand,
                                
                                  Sum grayne to be neþire gloues · graythid to my kniȝtis,
                                
                                  Sum pured pelloure depurid · to put in oure wedis,
                                  Line 2768 
                                
                                  Lat kest þam apon camels · þat in þat kith lengis,
                                
                                  And aires with þaim to Eufraten · þis erand haues in mynd."
                                
                                  Þan was a man, as me mynes · in þe morne-qwile, [folio 48a] 
                                
                                  Was of ser Daris a duke · þe derfe Emperoure,
                                  Line 2772 
                                
                                  Ane þat Nostanda was named · & a noble prince,
                                
                                  Þat certified his souerane · þir saȝes in a pistill:
                                
                                  ¶ "Sire Dari, duke of ilk a douth · & driȝten þi-selfe,
                                
                                  Þe grete glorius god · graythid in þi ['þi' blotted in MS.]  trone,
                                  Line 2776 
                                
                                  Nostanday, to ȝour nobilnes · þat ay my nek bowis,
                                
                                  With seruage to ȝour senurie · my-selfe I comand.
                                
                                  It semed noȝt ȝoure seruand · sire, vndistreyned
                                
                                  Vn-to ȝour mekill maieste · þis mater to write,
                                  Line 2780 
                                
                                  Bot I am depely distressid · þis dede for to wirke,
                                
                                  And made þis myscheffe to myn · malegrefe my chekis.
                                
                                  For wete it wele ȝour worthines · þat of our wale [faes crossed through.]  princes
                                
                                  Twa of þe tethiest ere tint · & termynd of lyue,
                                  Line 2784 
                                
                                  Þat lost was now þe last day · a litill fra Tygre,
                                
                                  In batail apon bent fild · in-bland with þe grekis.
                                
                                  Þare was I gird to þe grond · & greuously woundid,
                                
                                  Vnnethe it cheuyd me þat chance [MS. can chance; can struck out.]  · to chape to þe fliȝt [MS. filȝt.] ;
                                
                                  And oþire many of oure men · miȝtfull kniȝtis,

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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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