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.

                                
                                  þar metes þaime a miche folke · þe maister of þe playnes,
                                
                                  The duke of þe drafes · & of þe derfe fellys,
                                
                                  One teosellus a tulke · þat tenyd þaim vnfaire.
                                  Line 1212 
                                
                                  He girdes in with a gyn · grathed in playthes,
                                
                                  All to-brountes þes bernes · & wykydly þaim woundes,
                                
                                  Felles mony fey at a frush · fast to þe grunde,
                                
                                  And mony renke þat he ouer-rade · rase neuer aftir.
                                  Line 1216 
                                
                                  Than was sir meliager amoved · & manly debates,
                                
                                  Flyngez forth on a fole · with a fele spere,
                                
                                  And beres mony grett syre · þorow thike males,
                                  Line 1219 
                                
                                  All fell bernes at [a] brayde · whilse his breth lastez.
                                
                                  And sampson on ane other syde · settez on belyue,
                                
                                  Brushes forth on a blonke · brathly he smytez,
                                
                                  Betes on with a brande · for brokyn was hys launce,
                                
                                  Hewes doun on þe herdez · & hurtez þaim vnfaire.
                                  Line 1224 
                                
                                  Then arestes, an athell man · & [Better omitted.]  ay clike feghtez,
                                
                                  Sparres forth with a spere · & spedes hys mightez,
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  Mony bald or he blan · broght owt of lyfe.
                                  Line 1228 
                                
                                  Than Caulus, an other knyght · on a ked stede,
                                
                                  On thoosellus in twa · hys tembre he brekys;
                                
                                  And þen he dryffes to þe duke · als tellys me þe texte,
                                
                                  Bot with a swyng of a swerde · swappez of hys heued.
                                
                                  When he was drepyd þus & dede · & þe drawes ȝemyd,
                                
                                  Þe prekers of þe pasturs · & of þe prouud Landez,
                                
                                  All þe folk of hys affinite · þat frehsse [Sic.]  wer vnwoundet,
                                
                                  Þat other fote hed or fole · to þe flyȝt foundez.
                                  Line 1236 
                                
                                  Thus meliager with hys men · þe menske þar acheuett,
                                
                                  Fellyd þe feirare [MS. feirhare.]  of þar foes · and þe feld wonnez [Read wonn.] ;
                                
                                  And rachen with þair route · & ryden bott a while,
                                
                                  Bot þar neghyd þaim ane oþer note · als new as before;
                                
                                  þar was a maister of þe marche · þe myghtiest of other.
                                
                                  One beritinus, a berne · als þe buke telles,
                                  Line 1242 
                                
                                  Come girdand furth of gaders · owt of þe grete cyte,

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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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