The wars of Alexander: an alliterative romance translated chiefly ...

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Dablin.] Alexander approaches Jerusalem. 79
And who so leddcjys couth lache • as jje line wittnes,
"VVald gett ])air hald with fair liand & • on-lofte wynne.
So fn3t wer |jase other folke pat • foghtefi wt'tMn, 1441
Fro 1 balaan jjaix bald duke fat broght was of • liue,
})at aH failez faim fe force & • so ferd worthen,
])at nowder with staflfe ne with staue witAstode • f»ai no
langer. 1444
Sir alexander with Jjoes athellys & with • hys awne
sleghtez
The toure of tire fus he tuke and other • ij burghez,
In jje whilke fe sariens of fis syre • so many sorowys
haddyn
wald hot AH tary owr tale • baire twrment to rekeii. 1448 0b8id[et]ia
Sone als fis cite was sesyd slayne vp & • 3olden,
tyre.
)an rides forth fe riche kyng & removes • fe hoste,
Gase forth to gaza ane othre grete • cite,
And he settes on a sawte and • teses it beliue 1452
And when Jjis gaza was gettyn he grathes hym swyth^
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And ioynes hym toward lerwsalem • fe lewez to distroy
And 36 Jjat kepys of fis carpyng • to here any ferrer,
Sone saH I neuen Jjou fe note fat now • is next after.
Septimus passus.
Als hastely as fai herd of • in haly cits, 1457
And Bodword to fe bischop • was broght of hys come,
For alexawrfer aw • almost he dyes, 1459
And for he hed nekyd hym with nay • in a new tyme.
And now he fenkez in his thought • he turht ^ noght haue
cared
In aH hys maste mister made he hym • faylez,^
When he for socour to fe cite send hym hys • letirQ
And he soned hym by fis case
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fat nowe hym forthynkez.
1464
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Bead For. " Head thurt. ' Ie.id nad he ]^e man fayled.