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.

                                
                                  Þen þaim of perse to pay · or to please owder.
                                  Line 1180 
                                
                                  Than takez þe Bishop þe breue · & to chawmbre bownes,
                                
                                  Ressaves it with reuerence · & redes it ouer,
                                
                                  Gase hym downe be degrece · ayayn to þe sale,
                                
                                  Swythly to þe swyers · & þaim þe sware ȝeldez:
                                  Line 1184 
                                
                                  "Sirres, ayres agayn to alexander · & all þus hym tellys, [Epistola.] 
                                
                                  That me was done mony day · deply to swere,
                                
                                  Neuer perse to pare · ne passe with none armez
                                
                                  In damagyng of darius · endurand hys lyue."
                                  Line 1188 
                                
                                  When þe wale kyng wist · he wex wode wroth,
                                
                                  "Now by god," quod þe grome · "þat gatt me on erth,
                                
                                  I sall seche Iewres on þe Iewes · enys [read enioine.]  or I dye,
                                
                                  Sall kenne whoys commaundement · þat þaim to kepe fallez.
                                  Line 1192 
                                
                                  Ȝit for no torfer þat he tyde · tyre wald he noght leue,
                                
                                  Bot chesez hym owt a chiftane · & chargez hym belyue,
                                
                                  A mody man, sir meliager, · a maister of hys oste,
                                
                                  To founde forth with a flete · of fyfe hundreth knyghtez;
                                
                                  And iniones hym to Iosaphatt · hys Iornay to make,
                                  Line 1197 
                                
                                  And all þe pastours & þe playnes · prestly to [MS. de.]  dryve,
                                
                                  Bot bring in all þes bestes · baren & other,
                                
                                  Þat he might see in ony syde · þe cite of Gaders.
                                  Line 1200 
                                
                                  Than mefes on sire Meliager · þis mightfull prince
                                
                                  Wyth a soume of syker men · & sampson þaim ledes,
                                
                                  A renke þat in þa regions · had rydyn oft sythez,
                                
                                  And knew þe costez & þe kythez · clene all-to-geder.
                                  Line 1204 
                                
                                  Þus hyed þai forth egerly · & entird þe wale,
                                
                                  And suche a pray þaim preved · als pyne wer to reken,
                                
                                  Bringez forth, als says þe buk · bestes owt of nowmbre, [folio 10a] 
                                
                                  And trottes on toward tyre · with ioy at þair hertes.
                                  Line 1208 
                                
                                  Bot or þai metyn hed a myle · þe mers with-out, [MS. were out.]

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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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