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.

                                
                                  þar metis þaim with a mekill flote · þe maister of þe playnes,
                                
                                  He þat was duke of þe [Inserted at the end of the line.]  droues · & of þe derfe hillis,
                                
                                  Ane Theosellus, a tulke · þat tened þam vnfaire.
                                  Line 1212 
                                
                                  He girdis in with [Inserted at the end of the line.]  a ging · armed in plates,
                                
                                  Alto-bruntes oure bernes · & brathly woundid,
                                
                                  Fellis fele at a frusch · fey to þe gronde,
                                
                                  And many renke at he roue · rase neuer efter.
                                  Line 1216 
                                
                                  Þan was ser Meliager moued · & maynly debatis,
                                
                                  Flingis out on a fole · with a fell spere,
                                
                                  Gers many grete syre grane · & girdis þurȝe maillis,
                                
                                  And many bernes at a braide · in his brath endis.
                                  Line 1220 
                                
                                  And Sampson on anothire side · setis out belyue,
                                
                                  Bruschis furth on a blonk · brymly he smytis,
                                
                                  Betis on with a brande · broken was his lance,
                                
                                  Hewis doun of þa hirdis · hurtis þam vn-faire.
                                  Line 1224 
                                
                                  Arystes, ane athill man · ai elike fiȝtis,
                                
                                  Spirris out with a spere · & spedis his miȝtis,
                                
                                  And noyed of þare note-men · at þe nete kepid,
                                
                                  And many bald, or he blan · broȝt out o-lyue.
                                  Line 1228 
                                
                                  Caulus, anothire kniȝt · on a kene stede,
                                
                                  On Theosellus in twa · his tymbre he brekis;
                                
                                  And þan he dryfes to þe duke · as demys þe textis,
                                
                                  And with a swyng of a swerd · swappis of hes hede.
                                  Line 1232 
                                
                                  When he was drepid & dede · at þe droues ȝemyd, [folio 21b] 
                                
                                  Þe prekars of þe pastors · & of þe proude landis,
                                
                                  All þe folke of his affinite · at fresch ware vn-wondid ,
                                
                                  Þat outhire fote had or fole · to þe fliȝt foundid.
                                  Line 1236 
                                
                                  Þus Meliager with his men · þe menske has a-chevyd,
                                
                                  For þe fairere of þar faes · & þe fild wonn;
                                
                                  Raschis with rethere · & rydis bot a quyle,
                                
                                  Þat ne neȝis þam a-nothire note · as new as þe first.
                                  Line 1240 
                                
                                  Þare was a maister of þe marches · miȝtist of othire
                                
                                  Ane Beritinus, a berne · as þe buke tellis,
                                
                                  Come girdand out of Gadirs · out of þe grete cite,

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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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