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.

                                
                                  Befor his person apert · ilk poynt as he touchid.
                                
                                  Be noȝt a-baist quen I bow · ne bede me [ne bede me in the margin.]  noȝt to ryse,
                                
                                  Bot lat þi semblance be sadd · quen þou þi saȝe ȝildis;
                                
                                  And sai þan, 'Antioc, myn athill' · quen þou has all tald,
                                
                                  'Latt se þi witt in þis werke' · & wysely me rede."
                                
                                  Þan [MS. La þan; corrected.]  trines furth ser Telomew · & tyris him belyue;
                                
                                  In emperouris aparell · his [MS. his his; corrected.]  person he clethis.
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                                  And Alexander as belyue · in antioks name,
                                
                                  Quen he was [MS. had was; corrected.]  callid, with a kniȝt · he coms in a stounde.
                                
                                  Þan tellis to him ser Telomew · þe tale all-to-gedire,
                                
                                  Be-fore ser Candale þe kene · his consaile him askis.
                                
                                  "Ware [MS. With; altered to Ware.]  it ȝour will," quod þe wee · "wale emperoure,
                                
                                  Þan wald I fare with þis freke · his fere to reskowe,
                                
                                  And bid þe Bebrike · on bathe twa his eȝen, [folio 90a] 
                                
                                  Withouten bade to þis briȝt · his brid to restore;
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                                  And say þat sire, on þi [In the margin.]  be-half · bot he hire sone ȝeld,
                                
                                  We sall his cite & him-selfe · synge in-to poudire!"
                                
                                  With þat inclynes þe kniȝt · & kyndly him loues,
                                
                                  Said, "antiok, of all men · ay be þou Ioyed;
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                                  It semes þe, for þi sapience · to sit in a trone,
                                
                                  And to be cled as a kyng · with croune & with septir!"
                                
                                  Þan aires him furth ser Alexander · as Antiok it ware,
                                
                                  Cairis on with candoile · & caȝt him his leue, [MS. wyfe, altered to leue.] 
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                                  Soȝt furth þe same niȝt · & to þe cite wan,
                                
                                  Quare þe Bebrik kyng · with þe bird lengis.
                                
                                  Sone þe wacchis on þe wallis · þam wiȝtly ascryes,
                                
                                  Qua þai ware, & of quethen · & quat was þar errande.
                                
                                  "It is ser Candoile," quod þe kyng · "is comyn for his spouse;
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                                  And I am messangere made · þat mild to delyuire.
                                
                                  Þe maistir out of Messedone · ȝow maynly enjoynes,
                                
                                  If ȝe ȝoure cite will saue · to sese him his brid."
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                                  Þan was þe burgaige a-baiste · & brest vp þe ȝatis,

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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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