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 qua sa leddirs had nane · as þe lyne tellis,
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                                    Wald gett þam hald with þar hend · & on-loft clyme.
                                  
                                    Sa freȝt ware þar othire · þat feȝtis within,
                                  
                                    For Balaan þar bald duke · þat broȝt was [Added in the margin.]  of lyue,
                                  
                                    Þat all failis þam þe force · & so ferd worthe,
                                  
                                    Þat nothire with stafe ne with stane · withstand þai na langir.
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                                    Sire Alexander with his athils · & his awen sleȝtis
                                  
                                    Þe toune of Tire þus he tuke · & othire twa burȝes,
                                  
                                    In þe quilke þe siriens of þis sire · so many soroȝes had,
                                  
                                    As wald bot tary all oure tale · þaire tourment to reken.
                                  
                                    Sone as þis cite was sesid · & slayne vp & ȝolden,
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                                    Þen ridis furth þe riche kyng · & remowed his ost,
                                  
                                    Gais him furth to Gasa · a-nothire grete cite,
                                  
                                    And þat he settis on a saute · & sesis it be-lyue;
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                                    And quen þis Gasa was geten · he graythis him swyth,
                                  
                                    And Ioynes him toward Ierusalem · þe iewis to distroy;
                                  
                                    And ȝe þat [MS. inserts kis; but it is struck out.]  kepis of þis carpe · to knaw any ferre,
                                  
                                    Sone sall I neuen ȝow þe note · þat is next eftir.

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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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