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.

                                
                                  Þe powere out of Persy · quen þay þe prince saȝe,
                                
                                  Frayed was of his fourme · so ferdfull him semed.
                                  Line 3036 
                                
                                  ¶ Now ere þe batails boune · with braggins in trumpis,
                                
                                  Þe breme bemen blaste · beres to þe welken.
                                
                                  Alexander allþire first · on þaim all [In the margin.]  he settis,
                                
                                  And aithire ward [In the margin.]  at a wapp · wiȝtly inIoynes. [folio 52b] 
                                  Line 3040 
                                
                                  Archars & all men · asperly fiȝtis,
                                
                                  Þare was Iusting o Ioy · Iopons a-tamed;
                                
                                  Siles doun on aithire side · selcuth kniȝtis,
                                
                                  Sum darid, sum dede · sum depe wondid.
                                  Line 3044 
                                
                                  So fell [MS. felle felle.]  fliȝt was of flanys · as I fynd wreten,
                                
                                  Of arrows & of all quat · þat all þe aire blindid;
                                
                                  Hogere on to be-hald · þan of [MS. oerf.]  haile-stanes,
                                
                                  And all þe fild full of folke · fyue mile large.
                                  Line 3048 
                                
                                  Als sone as þe son vp soȝt · þe slaȝtere begynnes,
                                
                                  And so to þe son-sett · slakid þai neuire.
                                
                                  Be þat þe barbryne blode · be-gan to discende,
                                
                                  Þe proudest of þe Persyns · past out [MS. ont.]  of lyue.
                                  Line 3052 
                                
                                  Sone as ser Dary it deuysid · & seȝis his foke faile,
                                
                                  With þat he bedis þam [MS. þam þaim.]  þe bake · & bidis na langir;
                                
                                  Þen quen þai [MS. þaim.]  fange to ȝe fliȝt · was furth in with euyn,
                                
                                  And mirke out [MS. ont.]  of mesure · na man þaim a-pered.
                                  Line 3056 
                                
                                  For-þi þe chariotis in þe chace · choppid þaim to deth,
                                
                                  Þe cartis þat I carpid of · with þe kene sythis,
                                
                                  Þare fell as fele þam before · of fotemen & othire,
                                
                                  As risonis [Or risoms, or risoins.]  in a ranke fild · quen riders it spillen.
                                  Line 3060 
                                
                                  Sire Dary dryue in þe derke · & his douth folows,
                                
                                  Gaes him on to grantun · vn-to þe grete burne,
                                
                                  Fand it frosen him before · as fell for þe time,
                                
                                  Past him on with his pers · a pake out of nombre.
                                  Line 3064 
                                
                                  His folke fellis all þe flode · a forelange o brede,
                                
                                  Þe streme fra þe a strande · streȝt to þat othire.
                                
                                  Sone fra him-self was at þe side · it sonders behind,

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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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