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.

                                  
                                    Þof I þis wirschip þe wayfe · as wald þine astate, [folio 13a] 
                                  
                                    Lat þou þi hert neuer þe hiȝere · hale in-to pride.
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                                    For it was wont," quod þe wee · "as wyse men tellis,
                                  
                                    Full hiȝe þingis ouer-heldis · to held oþer-quile.
                                  
                                    Slike as ere now broȝt a-bofe · nowe þe bothum askis,
                                  
                                    And slike at left [Indistinct; see 1. 814.]  ere on lawe · ere lift to þe sternes."
                                  
                                    "Sa ma aydeus," quod þat oþire man · "þou tellis me treuthe,
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                                    Son þis ensample of þi-selfe · þou sais me, I trowe.
                                  
                                    Vn-behalde þe wele on ilk halfe · & haue a gud eȝe,
                                  
                                    Les on þine ane here-efterward · þine ossyngis liȝt."
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                                    Þan Alexander all in ire · angrile spekis:
                                  
                                    "Hy þe hethen-ward, þou hathill · & houe þou na langire.
                                  
                                    For na-þing as a-nente me · þou has noȝt to mell,
                                  
                                    Ne with þi domes me to dele · dole vndire sonne."
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                                    Now [MS. Nowith; by confusion with line above.]  is ser Nicollas anoyed · & nettild with ire,
                                  
                                    As wrath as [a] waspe · & wode of his mynde,
                                  
                                    Reviles he þis oþire renke · with vnrid speche:
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                                    "Behald," quod he, "hedirward · & herken how I say;
                                  
                                    Now be þe hert & þe hele · of my hathill fadire,
                                  
                                    And be þe god," quod þe gome · "þat gafe me þe saule,
                                  
                                    A[ls] sprent [of] my spittyng · a specke on þi chere,
                                  
                                    Þou sall be diȝt to þe deth · & drepid of my handis."

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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.
Canvas: Page 32
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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