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

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118 DARIU3 FIND3 THE PEPPER SHARP. [Ashmole.
Bot a thing, he said, he sa3e • fat solast hi7i maste, 2072
j)ai ware hot soft, he suposed ' for so |je sede proued."
Darius tastes the jjaii pullis him vp pe piouds kyng & on • jje pepire tastiV,
pepper, and Amis ^ . , . •,,
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it sharp. Said, as it tuke hi»i hy Jjc tonge • *' his tuikis ere lewe,
Bot, be his kni^tis as kene • as me fis comes shewis, 2076
AH J)e werd war to waike • his wrothe^ to withstand."'^
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JQe mody man Amonta |)an meHs ])ir wordis,
[Foi.36.] " 3is, he ledis bot a Hte • lorJ, with 3oure lefe ; 2079
)5are is' bot fewe at him folo3es • bot fe3tand hemes,
Bot mare fersere in feld • feH: neuire of modire,
Amonta siys, •
FoF I my-sclfe wt't/i a sowme set \iaim agayns,
" I attacked tlie
Greeks with a With of \>e Persyns proude a pake out of nounbre,
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Felire fan his folke be fuH fyue thousam, 2084
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And 3it ys feH all to ferre ' J>e fayntiV to worthe
For fai haue hedid of oure hathils & • a hepe wonndid,
Fey falne to J)e fold • many
They beat us. Bet dou^ oure bachelei's • my
And a selly somme
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fers erlis,
ban/r to-rased, 2088
slayne of my kni3t's.
For three days Quethire days^ thre J)ur3e-out thraly we fo3ten,
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we ougi icin,
jy^^^^ dixitis & dve^B '
delt & taken,
and at last we And lit be lawest at be last vs limpid ' to bee, 2092
gave way.
And vnethis sauyd I mj'^-selfe vn-slayn of par * handis.
Bot treuly, ser," quod fe duke • " gret tresore me thinke
As for Aiexan ler. At Alexander jje athiH for of * aH ware he maister,
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prouder."
with fe victore & vengid on his • faes, 2096
Was neuire fe he3are of a hawe his hert fuH of pride.
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For mekely ilka modire son • his awen men & othiie,
Als wele fe pure Persens • as fe grete grekis,
AH fe douth at was dede be-dene he comands 2100
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To gedire fam vp ilka gome & fam in g-auys Hgg."
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Alexander goes Now Alexander & his ost • armed on ridis,
to Sicily.
And sone Cecile he • with his seggis entricJ,
MS. to wiohe, altered to wrothe to in the margin.
* MS. hb;t^ stand. ^ Added in the marrjin.
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hardly wanted.