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 all þe marche of massydon · he manours clene;
                                
                                  And I hys heyre alexander · als elders me callen."
                                
                                  Þat oþer renishit r[e]nke · hym rightes in þe sadyll,
                                
                                  Stranes owt hys sterops · & sternly lokez;
                                  Line 840* 
                                
                                  With a sembland as a hye sir · settes owt þe brest,
                                
                                  Sayd: "who am I þat am here · as þou supposez?"
                                
                                  "Sir, þou art a kyng of þis kyth · I ken wele my-seluen,
                                
                                  Bott neuer þe latter in þis lede · if þou be lord here,
                                  Line 844* 
                                
                                  Þof [MS. Of.]  I [þe follows after I in MS.]  þis worship þe [þe written above the line in MS.]  wafe · as wald þine astate,
                                  Line 723 
                                
                                  Lett þou þi hert neuer þe hyer · hale to þe pride.
                                  Line 724 
                                
                                  For it is wont," quod þe wy · "as wise men tellys,
                                
                                  The hyest thyng raþest [MS. raþeest.]  · heldes oþer while.
                                
                                  Suche as now is broght a-bowue · now þe bothom asken,
                                
                                  And sich als laft [or last.]  now on loft [so in MS.; read laft er on lawe.]  · er lyft to þe sternes." [folio 3b] 
                                
                                  "So madeus," [MS. madeus, altered to madyng, in later ink.]  quod þis oþer man · "þou mellys me þe sothe,
                                  Line 729 
                                
                                  For þis ensampyll of þi-selfe · þou says me, I trowe.
                                
                                  Vmhede þe wele on ilke halfe · & haue a god Egen,
                                
                                  Lest on þi-seluen ane oþer tyme · þine asking liȝt."
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                                  Þan alexander all in ire · angirly spekes:
                                
                                  "Hy þe hyneward, þou athell · & hofe here no langer.
                                
                                  For noþ[i]ng als anense me · þou hase lityll to melle,
                                
                                  Ne with me noght hase to do · ne dele vnder þe sonn."
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                                  Now [is] sir Nicholas noyet · & netlett with ire,
                                
                                  Als wrath as a waspe · & wode owt of mynde,
                                
                                  Revylez he þis other renke · with vnrode speche:
                                
                                  "Byhald," he sayd, "hyderward · & here qwat I say;
                                  Line 740 
                                
                                  Now by þe hert & þe heale · of my old fadir,
                                
                                  And be god," quod þe gome · "at gaue me þe saule,
                                
                                  Als sprent of þi [so in MS.; read of my.]  spyttyng · a speke of my [read on þi.]  face,
                                  Line 743 
                                
                                  Þou sall be diȝt to the deth · and drepyd of my handes."

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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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