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.

                                
                                  When he had spokyn so, in spite · he spittes at hys face,
                                
                                  Dispysys hym dyspytussly · revylez hym foule.
                                
                                  "Hent þe þar-to," quod þe athell · "þat þe to haue semes,
                                
                                  Cure, for þi kene carpyng · cache now a shame!"
                                  Line 748 
                                
                                  Þan ayres hym forth alexander · & hys aynde takes,
                                
                                  To let swage or he sware · þe swelme of hys angre,
                                
                                  Wysez hym how he say wald · or he aunswer ȝheldes,
                                
                                  And turnyd hym þen to þis tulke · & talkez þir wordez:
                                
                                  "For þou hase noȝtyd me now · nicholas," he sayd,
                                  Line 753 
                                
                                  "I swere by my syre saule · & by hys seluen pyte,
                                
                                  And be þat worthi wombe · of my wale moder
                                
                                  Þat I was gettyn in of god · & grathly consaued,
                                  Line 756 
                                
                                  Thu sees me, lede, in þi land · or oght lang cnarmed,
                                
                                  And oþer recouer me þi realm · or reche me vppe [þe] girdyll."
                                
                                  Þan sett þai þaim on suche a day · to semble & to fight,
                                
                                  And þar-to takez vpp þar trewthez · & twynnon in-sonder.
                                
                                  Þan ȝode hym furth þis yong man · ȝapely & swithe
                                  Line 761 
                                
                                  Into þe marche of masydon · & manly assembles
                                
                                  Of sowiours & of syker men · a some owt of nowmbre,
                                
                                  Þat wer þe baldest & þe best · breuet in armez.
                                  Line 764 
                                
                                  He Apperels hym a prouud oste · of princez & oþer, [folio 4a] 
                                
                                  Ferkys to sire philip · & fonges hys leue,
                                
                                  And þan bucifolon hys blonk · he bremely assendes,
                                
                                  And bownez on with hys batell · in at þe brade ȝatez.
                                  Line 768 
                                
                                  Þe same day þat was set · þe semblyng of bath,
                                
                                  Ather with a fers flete · in þe felde metyn.
                                
                                  Þe nowmbre of sir nicholas · it neyt [So in MS.]  me to rekyn,
                                
                                  And alexander was ane ost · of awgerly mony.
                                  Line 772 
                                
                                  With þat þai tukkyn vp þair trompez · vpon þe two sydez,
                                
                                  Bradez baners on brade · buskes to mete.
                                
                                  So knellyd þe clarions · þat all þe clyff rongen,

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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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