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.

                                
                                  Instrumentis & ymagis · with-in of þe Mynstire;
                                  Line 1564 
                                
                                  Sum with sensours & so[m] · with silueryn cheynes,
                                
                                  Quare-of þe reke aromatike · rase to þe welken;
                                
                                  Sum with of þe saynt-ware · many sere thingis,
                                
                                  With tablis & topoures · & tretice of þe lawe;
                                  Line 1568 
                                
                                  Sum bolstirs of burnet · en-brouden with perill,
                                
                                  Bare before þe bischop · his buke on to lig;
                                
                                  Sum candilstickis of clere gold · & of clene siluer,
                                
                                  With releckis full rially · þe richest on þe auutere.
                                  Line 1572 
                                
                                  Þus seyis all þe semle · þe cite with-oute,
                                
                                  Vn-to a stonen stede · streȝt on þe temple,
                                
                                  Scopulus, by sum skill · þe scripture it callis,
                                
                                  And þare þe come of þe kynge · þis couent abidis.
                                  Line 1576 
                                
                                  Sone Alexander with ane ost · of [Added in the margin.]  many athille dukis,
                                
                                  Come prekand toward þe place · with princes & erlis,
                                
                                  Sees slike a multitude of men · in milke-quite clathis,
                                
                                  And ilk seg in a soyte · at selly him thinkis.
                                  Line 1580 
                                
                                  Þan fyndis he in þis oþire flote · fanons and stolis,
                                
                                  Practisirs & prematis · & prestis of þe lawe,
                                
                                  Of dialiticus & decre · doctours of aythir,
                                  Line 1583 
                                
                                  Bathe chambirlayn & chaplayne · in chalk-quite wedis.
                                
                                  And as he waytis in a wra · þan was he ware sone [folio 27b] 
                                
                                  Of þe maister of þat meneyhe · in-myddis þe puple,
                                
                                  Þat was þe bald bischop · a-bofe alle þ[e] [MS. þ.]  iewis,
                                
                                  Was graþid in a garment · of gold & of pu[r]pree.
                                  Line 1588 
                                
                                  And þan he heues vp his eȝe · be-haldis on his myter,
                                
                                  Be-fore he saȝe of [Here forgid is inserted, but is underlined.]  fyne gold · forgid a plate,
                                
                                  Þar-in grauen þe grettest · of all gods names,
                                
                                  Þis title, Tetragramaton · for so þe text tellis.
                                  Line 1592 
                                
                                  With þat comandis þe kyng · his knyȝtis ouire [Read euire.]  ilkane,
                                
                                  Bathe beron & bachelere · & bald men of armes,
                                
                                  Na nere þat place to aproche · a payn of þar lyuys,
                                
                                  Bot all to hald þam be-hynd · heraud & othire.
                                  Line 1596 
                                
                                  Þan airis he furth all him ane · to þis athill meneȝe,

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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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