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.

                                
                                  And clene all þe clergy · comensure & othire,
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                                  Þis diuinour Domestyne · bedene þai comendid,
                                
                                  A-cordis þaim to his consaile · & kendly it prased.
                                
                                  Þan amed þai to ser Alexander · onane for to send
                                
                                  A croune all of clere gold · clustrid with gemmes,
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                                  Of fyfty ponde with þe payse · as þe prose [MS. prorose.]  tellis,
                                
                                  Þis tresoure tire þai him to · & tribute him hetes.
                                
                                  Now ere þe sandismen [MS. sandisment.]  · sett on þaire horsis, [folio 41b] 
                                
                                  A Ientill man þat Iowell · enioyned was to kepe,
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                                  Þat was full sekirly & soft · all in silke falden;
                                
                                  Bot clerkis to þe conquirour · caired with þaim many.
                                
                                  Þan movis furth þe messagere · of mylis [MS. mylid, altered to mylis.]  bot fewe,
                                
                                  Þat þai nere liȝt as belyue [MS. bely, altered to belyue.]  · at þe kyngis tentis,
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                                  Knelid doun befor þe kyng · & him þe croune rechid,
                                
                                  And ȝerely tribute him to geue · ȝapely him hetis.
                                
                                  Þan takis þe gudman þe gifte · & gretly þam þankis,
                                
                                  And vndirstandis in a stound · how it stude clene,
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                                  Of þe eging of Eschilus · þat ertid his feris,
                                
                                  Þat þai with-sitt suld his saȝes · & serue noȝt his pistill.
                                
                                  Þe dities of Domestiane · so did he bathe,
                                
                                  Þat comaundid & his [Added in the margin.]  comandmentis · to kepe in all wyse,
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                                  Ȝit neuire-þe-lattir to þa ledis · a lettir he fourmed,
                                
                                  In presidine with his awen [MS. awent, altered to awen.]  prince · reportand þa wordis:
                                
                                  ¶ "I, kyng Philip son þe fers · & his faire ladis,
                                
                                  Honoured Olimpades · þat I obesche maste,
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                                  I kepe neuire king to be callid · ne cache me þat name,
                                
                                  Till all þe barbarine blude · a-bowe to þe grekis.
                                
                                  I etill neuir Athenes · with armes for to entre,
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                                  Bot ȝow to question enquere · & qwete with my wittis. [MS. handis, altered to wittis.] 
                                
                                  I purpose ay out of repreue · ȝoure persons to leue,
                                
                                  And ȝe þe contrari clene · ȝoure concience it opence.

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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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