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

AshmoleJ Alexander builds a marble pillar. 245
I se na godlaik in gold • bot grefe to fe saule, The more gold a
For Je fasti'r it fallis on a freke • J)e fastir he couett/s." moiehe'wanu."
Sire Alenander aH at ese • avisis him on J)is pistiil, 4690
And wayues^ to him a-nofire writt • at on fis wyse Alex. «nd Dind..
spellis.
IT " Hije kyng mt^-out compa-ison * of kyngis aH ofirc,
Of all lordiff \)e lord • fat leues vndire heuen,
"Alexander, son
Sire Alexander, be aire • of Amon oure drijtin, 4694
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'^
of Amnion,
To fe, ser Dyndyn on J)i dese • J)is dities I ^vrite. to uindimus.
In slike a side of Jje soile • jowr-selfe is in-closid, Aiex. and Dind.,
May wele na wee, if he wald • wyn to ^oiir kitbis. no strangera can
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. 1 i-L 1 • come to jou.
Forfi enhaoete ^e in angwysch • at 30ure vnthankis;
And aH ^ure lefing & ^oure lare^ • at je so loude prayse,
It comzs bot of a kyndnes & of na clene thewys. 4700
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And als ^e fonde may na forpire • to hi3en ^oure name,
Bot pyned bar in a parroke • inpa'kid as bestis, YeareUkewretcbed
prisoners."
\)iis pere to \)lr presons • fat ay in payn lengis,
And he fat sejis to vs sage • 30 bot a sott caH. 4704
Be fe^ grace of my god^ nii^t I 30Mr grond entre,
I suld 30W ken to be kni3tis & • clethe 30W vritJi armes." Alex, ud Sind.,
Jjan pi3t oure prince in fat place • a pelare* of marble, Alexander rears a
Quare-on a tulke with a toile • f is titiH vp he wrate,
Sum langage on latine & • lettres of ynde, 4709
^ mar e.
Sui was graithid grew * fat fus to-gedire spekis :
" I, Philip son f e feU kyng • f e fondere of grece,
Sire Alexander f
e athill • f [a]t a3e aH f e barbies
EftiV fe day & fe dethe • of Dary & of Porr^^, 4713
bus fere I foloied haue my faes : " • &
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here a fitt end. [End of
Alexander and
Dindimus. 1
% Ficesimus secuntius passus '^Uxandru
Now gase he fra gangan and aH his ging^ • efti'r, [FoI. si &.]
Fondis forth with his folke & a • fild entris,
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Or waynes. ' In the margin.
' MS. Be \iQ be ]>&•, with Be altered to Bet, and the second
be \ie vnderlined ; Bot be |;e is probably intended.
* A curl over the e.