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.

                                
                                  He heldes doun in þe hey way · & halfe deyde liggez,
                                  Line 933* 
                                
                                  And was so wonderly woundit · he wenyd noght to leve.
                                  Line 933 
                                
                                  Hys men & all þe masidons · full fowly wer stourblett,
                                
                                  What for doloure & dyne · when þai hym dede hopen.
                                
                                  Pausana for þees prowes · slike a pride hentes,
                                  Line 936 
                                
                                  That vneth he [MS. hy, corrected to he.]  wist for welth · what he wirke might.
                                
                                  He prekes into þe palace · to pull owt þe whene,
                                
                                  Wenes to wilde hir at will · & away lede.
                                
                                  Þan comes euen onon · þe cronacles telles,
                                  Line 940 
                                
                                  Alexander with ane oste · of mony able princez,
                                
                                  Ayrand owt of Ermony · hed all þe erth wonne; [2a victoria alexandri] 
                                
                                  Herd suche a rastelyng in þe realm · & rydez þe faster.
                                
                                  Than passyd forth þe prouude whene · into a prevay chamer,
                                
                                  Wayfez vp a wyndow · & waytes þar-owt,
                                  Line 945 
                                
                                  Sees wele by signes · at hir sonne come,
                                
                                  And by þe alyens armes · þat he was all mayster.
                                
                                  With þat she haldez forth hir heued · & hegh to hym calles: [folio 6b] 
                                  Line 948 
                                
                                  "Whare er þi werdes, my wale sonn · þou wan of þi goddez,
                                
                                  Thu suld be victour to venge · & venkest neuer?
                                
                                  Yf þou haue ony hert her · help now þi moder."
                                
                                  Sone as pausana in þe place · þis tale herys,
                                  Line 952 
                                
                                  And þe commyng of þis kene knyght · he carys hym ayayns,
                                
                                  Preses owt of þe palasse · with a pake enarmed,
                                
                                  And metes hym in þe myd-feld · with a much nowmbre.
                                
                                  Bot alexander als belyfe · as he on hym wates,
                                  Line 956 
                                
                                  He swyngez owt a sharpe swerde · & hym to deth swappys;
                                
                                  And þen hys renkez all in rowte · rechen vp þar waypynnez
                                
                                  Vnto þis kyd conquerour · & cryen aftir socour.
                                  Line 959 
                                
                                  Þen sayd þar an with-in þe ost · & on alexander calles,
                                
                                  Sayd: "philip þi fader · is in þe feld drepyd."
                                
                                  And he hyes þen fast forth · & halfe-deyde hym fyndez,
                                
                                  Brushys doun by þe berne · & bitterly wepys.

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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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