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.

                                  
                                    ¶ "To kyng [MS. kynd, corrected to kyng.]  dary [MS. 1 dary.]  þe derfe · þe derrest of my childire,
                                  
                                    Rodogoras þe riche quene" · þis rauth scho him writis:
                                  
                                    "Bald baratour on bent · borne of my bosom,
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                                    Here send I þe, my swete · salutis & ioy.
                                  
                                    Þou has heuyd vp þi huge ost · as I haue herd tell,
                                  
                                    Samed all þi saudiours · & semblid þi pupill,
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                                    And etils to ser Alexander · eft to assaill.
                                  
                                    Wete þou wele it is noȝt worthe · ware þe be tyme; [folio 49a] 
                                  
                                    For had þou gedird all þe gomes · I gesse, of þe werd,
                                  
                                    Ȝit to with-stand him a stonde · þi strenthe ware to littill.
                                  
                                    For godis prouidence apert · ay prestly him helpis,
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                                    Sauys & sustenes him-selfe · & socurs him euire.
                                  
                                    For-þi hoo with þi hautes · & þine vnhemed wittis,
                                  
                                    A-vaile of þi vanite · & of þi vayne pride,
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                                    Obey þe to þe baratour · þe best I con rede;
                                  
                                    Magnifie him with þi mouthe · & meke þi hert,
                                  
                                    For any hathill vndire heuen · þat at he ne hade may,
                                  
                                    Mare sekire it ware him to forsake · þen sewe any forthire;
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                                    In pese & in pacience · possede at he miȝt,
                                  
                                    [Þan] Be excludit out of his erd · & euire-mare duell." 
                                  
                                    . . . . .
                                  
                                    Quen he þis rawis had rede · he rewfully wepid,
                                  
                                    His eldirs & his ancestris · als he remembris;
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                                    Þoȝt how pride þaim depriued: · & here a passe ende.

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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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