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.

                                
                                  Þat it be onest all ouire · & open vp þe ȝatis.
                                  Line 1496 
                                
                                  Lett þan þe pupill ilka poll · apareld be clene,
                                
                                  And al manere of men · in mylk-quyte clathis.
                                
                                  And pas, þou & þi prelatis · & prestis of þe temple,
                                
                                  Raueste all on a raw · as ȝoure rewill askis.
                                  Line 1500 
                                
                                  And quen þis conquirour comes · caire him agaynes;
                                
                                  For he mon ride þus & regne · ouire all þe ronde werde
                                
                                  Be lordschip in ilka lede · in-to his laste days,
                                
                                  And þen be [MS. he.]  diȝt to þe deth · of driȝtins ire."
                                  Line 1504 
                                
                                  ¶ Sone þe derke ouire-drafe · & þe day springis,
                                
                                  Oure bischop bounes him of bed · & buskis on his wedis,
                                
                                  And þen iogis all þe iewis · & generall callis,
                                
                                  A-vaies þaim his vision · how þe voice bedis;
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                                  Þan consals him þe clergy · clene all-to-gedire,
                                
                                  And all þe cite asentis · sarazens & oþir,
                                
                                  To buwne furth with all þe burȝe · & buske þam belyue,
                                
                                  As him was said in his slepe · þis souerayn to mete.
                                  Line 1512 
                                
                                  Þan rynnes he furth in a rase · & arais all þe cite,
                                
                                  Braidis ouire with bawdkyns · all þe brade stretis,
                                
                                  With tars & with tafeta · þar he trede sulde,
                                  Line 1515 
                                
                                  For þe erth to slike ane Emperoure · ware ouire feble.
                                
                                  He plyes ouire þe pauement · with [Added above the line.]  pallen webis,
                                
                                  Mas on hiȝt ouire his hede · for hete of þe sone,
                                
                                  Sylours of sendale · to sele ouire þe gatis,
                                  Line 1519 
                                
                                  And sammes þaim on aithire side · with silken rapis,
                                
                                  And þen he caggis vp on cordis · as curteyns it were,
                                
                                  Euen as þe esyngis ȝede · ouire be þe costes,
                                
                                  All þe wawis with-oute · in webis of ynde,
                                
                                  Of briȝt blasand blewe · browden with sternes. [folio 26b] 
                                  Line 1524 
                                
                                  Þus atired he þe toune · & titely þar-eftir
                                
                                  On ilka way wid open · werped he þe ȝatis;
                                
                                  And qua so lukis fra with-out · & with-in haldis,
                                
                                  It semyd as þe cite to se · ane of þe seuyn [MS. seuyns; with final s expuncted.]  heuyns.

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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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