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.

                                
                                  Seches þar to a synagoge · him-selfe & his princes,
                                
                                  Amon þar awen god · at þai honoure myȝt.
                                  Line 1059 
                                
                                  And so to þe temple as he tiȝt · with his [At the end of the line.]  tid Erles,
                                
                                  Þan metis him myddis þe way · was meruale to sene,
                                
                                  A hert with a huge hede · þe hareest on erthe,
                                
                                  Was to be-hald as a harow · for-helid ouer þe tyndis;
                                
                                  And þan comande him þe kyng · kenely to schote,
                                  Line 1064 
                                
                                  Bot þar was na man so nemyll · þat him hit couthe.
                                
                                  "A! hilla, haile," quod Alexander · & him a narawe hent,
                                
                                  Droȝe, & at þe first draȝte · him dreped for euire.
                                
                                  Fra þethen to þis ilk day · þan is þat ilke place,
                                  Line 1068 
                                
                                  Þe stede þar þis stith man · strikis þis hert,
                                
                                  Sagittarius forsoth · men gafe it to name,
                                
                                  And will do for þat ilke werk · ay qwen þe werd turnes.
                                
                                  Þen aires him on ser Alexander · till Amon temple,
                                
                                  Offirs to his awen gode · & honours him faire,
                                  Line 1073 
                                
                                  Geuys him garsons of gold · & of gud stanes,
                                
                                  And hald hestes him to hete · him hettirly besekis.
                                
                                  Þan passes he þethen with his princes · to sich a place wendis,
                                  Line 1076 
                                
                                  Capho Resey we rede · þe romaunce it callis;
                                
                                  And þar-in fyndis him þe freke · fyftene Burghes,
                                
                                  And glidand to þe grete see · xij grym waters.
                                
                                  Of ilka bild, sais þe buke · barred was þe ȝatis,
                                  Line 1080 
                                
                                  Stoken stifly with-out · with staplis & cheynes.
                                
                                  Þare lengis him lefe þe [At the end of the line.]  kynge · & logis all a neuen,
                                
                                  And sacrifyce þar efsones [Read eftsones.]  · to many sere godis.
                                
                                  Þe same niȝt in his slepe · Seraphis aperis,
                                  Line 1084 
                                
                                  Anothire of his grete godis · in a grym fourme, [folio 19a] 
                                
                                  Cled in a comly clathe · of castans hewes,
                                
                                  And silis euyn to him-selfe · & said him þir wordis:
                                
                                  "Alexander, athill kyng" · & asperly spekis,
                                  Line 1088 
                                
                                  Toward a miȝti montayne · him myntis with his fynger,

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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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