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.

                                
                                  Þan mournes all þe Messadones · & maynly was sturb[i]d. [The i is illegible.] 
                                
                                  And Alexander also · was augrely greuyd,
                                
                                  So ware þai troubild out of tone · quen þai þaire tild miste,
                                
                                  Þat of þe taking of Tire · trest þai na langire.
                                  Line 1344 
                                
                                  And so him-selfe in his slepe · þe same niȝt eftir,
                                
                                  Him thoȝt he had in his hand · & held of a vyne
                                
                                  A growen grape of a grype · a grete & a rype,
                                  Line 1347 
                                
                                  Þe quilke he flange [MS. inserts of, but it is struck out.]  on þe flore · & with his fete tredis.
                                
                                  And quen he broken had þe bery · als þe berne semes,
                                
                                  þar folowis out of fresche wyne · feetles to mete; [folio 23b] 
                                
                                  So largely & so delauyly · of licoure, him thinkis,
                                
                                  Of ane rasyn to ryn · it was a ryfe wondire.
                                  Line 1352 
                                
                                  Þe kyng callis him a clerke · kenely on þe [Added in the margin.]  morne,
                                
                                  Als radly as he rase · to reche him his sweuyn.
                                
                                  "Sire, bees a-dred neuir a dele" · þe diuinour said,
                                
                                  "I vndire-take on my trouthe · Tire is þine awen;
                                  Line 1356 
                                
                                  For þe bery at ȝe brake sa · is þe burȝe euen.
                                
                                  Þai sall be sesid þe full sone · & to þi-selfe ȝolden,
                                
                                  For þou sall eft all on ernest · entire on þe wallis,
                                
                                  And foulire [Read foule hire.]  vndir þi feete · with-in a fewe days.
                                  Line 1360 
                                
                                  Now compas kenely þis kyng · & castis in his mynd
                                
                                  How he miȝt couir in any cas · to come to þe cite,
                                
                                  Deuynes depely on dais · dropis many wiles,
                                
                                  If he cuthe seke any sleȝt · þat him serue wald;
                                  Line 1364 
                                
                                  And makis to sett in þe see [MS. inserts of, but it is struck out.]  · riȝt in þe same place,
                                
                                  þar as þe bild at he bi[l]did · biggid wasse first,
                                
                                  To stable vp a grete strenthe · all on store schipis,
                                
                                  Hugir be þe halfe dele · & hiȝere þan þe toþire;
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                                  And þat he fiches & firmes · sa fast to þe wall,
                                
                                  So nere, vnethes at ane eld · miȝt narowly betwene,
                                
                                  And band hire, as þe buke sais · bigly to-gedire,

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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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