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 honest all ouer · & opyn vp þe ȝates.
                                  Line 1496 
                                
                                  Lett þen þi peple euerilke polle · aparaeld [MS. aparaerld; see l. 1552.]  be clene,
                                
                                  And all maner of men · in milke-whitte clathez.
                                
                                  Bott passe, þou & þi pristez · & prelatez of þe temple,
                                
                                  Reuest all on rawe · as your rewle askez.
                                  Line 1500 
                                
                                  And when þis conquerour comez · carez hym agayns; [folio 14a] 
                                
                                  For he must ryde & reyne · ouer all þe brede of þe werlde,
                                
                                  And be Lord of ilke lede · vnto hys last dayes,
                                
                                  And þen be dight vnto þe deth · of drightenez ayre."
                                  Line 1504 
                                
                                  Sone þe dyrke ouer-drafe · & þe day springez,
                                
                                  Oure Bishop bownes hym of bede · & buskes hys wedes,
                                
                                  And þen þat Iew of all Iewes · in generall he clepys,
                                
                                  Says þaim hys vision · & as þe voyce biddes;
                                  Line 1508 
                                
                                  Than councellys hym þe Clerge · clene all-to-geder,
                                
                                  And all þe cety be assent · sariauntez & other,
                                
                                  To bowne hym forth with all þe burgh · & buske hym beliue,
                                
                                  As hym was sayd in hys slepe · þis souerand to mete.
                                
                                  Than rynnes forth in a rese · arayes all þe cyte,
                                  Line 1513 
                                
                                  Spredes ouer with bawdkens · all þe brode stretes,
                                
                                  With riche clothez of taffata · qwer he trede suld,
                                
                                  For þe erth to siche ane emperour · wer all to feble.
                                  Line 1516 
                                
                                  He plyes ouer þe payment · pallen webbes,
                                
                                  Makez on hight ouer þe heued · for het [The t is written above the line.]  of þe son,
                                
                                  Silours of sendale · to syle ouer þe gatez,
                                  Line 1519 
                                
                                  And sampnez þaime on aþer [side] · with sylkyn rapez,
                                
                                  And þan he cachez vp on cordez · als curtaynez it were.
                                
                                  Euen als þe esynges ȝode · ouer be þe costez,
                                
                                  All þe wallez withowte · in webbez of Inde,
                                
                                  Of bright blysnand blew · browden with sternes.
                                  Line 1524 
                                
                                  Thus attyred he þis toune · & titely þar-after
                                
                                  Of ilke way wide hopyn · warpyd he þe ȝatez;
                                
                                  Att who so wates fro withowte · & within hedes,
                                
                                  It semyd as to se to · on of þe seuen heuens.

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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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