[6-text p 276] , [6-text p 277]
What pris were it to hym / though I yow tolde
Of Darius / and an hundred thousand mo
Of kynges / princes / Erles / dukes / bolde
Whiche he conquered / and broghte hem in-to wo
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I seye / as fer as man may ryde or go
The world was his / what sholde I moore deuyse
ffor though I write / or tolde yow eueremo
Of his knyghthode / it myghte nat suffise
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Twelf yeer he regned / as seith Machabee
Philippes sone of Macidoyne he was
That first was kyng in Grece the contree
O worthy gentil Alisandre allas
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That euere sholde fallen swich a cas
Empoysoned / of thyn owene folk thou weere
Thy sys / ffortune / hath turned in-to Aas
And [yet] for thee / ne weepe she neuer a teere
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Who shal me yeuen teeris to compleyne
The deeth of gentillesse / and of ffranchise
That al the world / weelded in his demeyne
And yet hym thoughte / it myghte nat suffise [folio 180a]
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So ful was his corage / of heigh emprise
Allas / who shal me helpe to endite
ffalse ffortune / and poyson to despise
The whiche two / of al this wo I wyte
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[Julius Cæsar.]
By wisedom / manhede / and by labour [¶ De Iulio Cesare]
ffrom humble bed / to roial magestee
Vp roos he Iulius the Conquerour
That wan al thoccident by land and See
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By strengthe of hand / or elles by tretee
And vn-to Rome / made hem tributarie
And sitthe of Rome / the Emperour was he
Til that ffortune / weex his Aduersarie
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