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.

                                
                                  Airid toward Alexander · & ames him to strike.
                                
                                  Bot þan him failis þe feete [MS. fete, altered to feete.]  · or he first wenys, [folio 15a] 
                                  Line 844 
                                
                                  He stakirs, he stumbils · & stande he ne miȝt,
                                
                                  Bot ay fundirs & fallis · as he ferde ware.
                                
                                  Þe faster forward him [Added in the margin.]  he faris · þe faster he snapirs;
                                
                                  Quat was þe cause of þe case · þat knawis oure lorde.
                                
                                  "Quat now," quod athill Alexander · "quat [quod.]  ailis þe to fall?
                                  Line 849 
                                
                                  Has þou na force in þi fete · ne fele of þi-selfe?
                                
                                  For a freke to be ferd · or a-fraid outhire,
                                
                                  And þou þe gouernere of grece · þat ware grete wondire!"
                                  Line 852 
                                
                                  Þen tittis he doune in þat tene · þe tablis ilkane,
                                
                                  Out of þe hall be [þe] hare · halis he þe bride,
                                
                                  And so þe wee in his wreth · wrekis his modire,
                                
                                  And Philip falne [was] sare seke · & all þe fest strubled.
                                
                                  As sone as Alexander · of angire he slakis, [Read aslakes.] 
                                  Line 857 
                                
                                  He lendis o-loft to þe lede · a litill days eftir,
                                
                                  Cairis vp with comfurth · þe kyng for to vysite,
                                
                                  He comes to þe curten · & carpis þis wordis:
                                  Line 860 
                                
                                  "Philip," quod þis ilke freke · & forwith him standis,
                                
                                  "Þof it vn-semely me sytt · þe so for to call,
                                
                                  Noȝt as þi suget & þi son · my sawe I þe ȝeld,
                                
                                  Bot as a felaw or a frynde · fallis to a-nothire.
                                  Line 864 
                                
                                  Sire, latt þi wreth a-wai wende · & with þi wyfe saȝtill,
                                
                                  And þe los of Lesias · litill þou charge.
                                
                                  I did bot my deuire · to drepe him, me [Added in the margin.]  thinke;
                                  Line 867 
                                
                                  For it awe him noȝt sa openly · slike ossing to make.
                                
                                  And ser, vnworthely þou wroȝt · & þat þou wele knawis,
                                
                                  Quen þou was boune with a brand · my bodi to schende."
                                
                                  Þen rewis þe riche kyng · of vnride werkis,
                                
                                  Blischis vp to þe berne · & braste out at grete.
                                  Line 872 
                                
                                  Þen airis him on Alexander · to his awen modire;

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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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