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

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Ashmole.] candoil's wife is taken from eim. 259
And twa hundret & ten • be tale at fe leste,
Of rekanthes of rede gold • railed of genmes,
"WitJi pellicans & pape-ioyes • polischti & gmuen, 5129 pelicans, and
'With cambs & with coronacles • afl" of clene perle, gow,
Thretti goblett«5 of gold • f»e grattest in J)e worde,
Fyue hundreth aH of euyn elde • of Ethyops childire,
Eynoseros,^ a rogfie best • -with raggid tyndis. 5133 a rhinoceros,
An a3te to^ ^ou7' empire • I fra myn erd wayue,
Berrers of ane Ebyii-tree & • brilles a thousan(J,
Foure hundreth Olifants in fere • pis fardiH to here, 40o elephants.
And thretti hundreth of my thede • fat threuej ere &
tame. 5137
I presand jow, of panters • fuH of proud mascles, and 4oo pano.er-
Foure hundreth fellis 3it to fee • ]:at fynely ere tewid."
Of lepards & of lionesses • fis lady him sendis,
A purtrayoM' in preuate scho prays with fam • to pas, she priviiy sends
. . _,.,• " painter to take
And his personele proporcions in perchemen hire bring. • Alexander's
All was done as scho demed & he* hire dere thankjs,
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And graithis hire giitis agayn • fe gaiest vndire heuew.
\)e payntoM* presentzs his aport & shoo was proud • fen,
For scho had depely many day • desyrid him to see. [FoI. so.]
Jjen wendz's furth hire dere son • a litiH: dais eft/', 5147
Jat was ser Candoile fe kene fat was hire kidd • aire,
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His wife & his women & with his wale feres, from
Out of fe cite fai so3t • to solace ])ar hertis
be kyng of Bebrike be bald him on be bent metis, The king • of
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Bebrik assaults
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With a company clene of • kni3t«s enarmed, him,
Maynes many of his men & ' hi^ his make refis, 5153
For he fat lady had loued many lange • wintire. and robs him oi
wife.
He gers a berne on a blonke * hire bremely to cast
Before a bald bachelere ^ •
on a bigg stede
Scho gaffe skirmand skrikjV • at aH fe skowis range, whoshneiis
It mijt a persid any hert • to here how scho wepid.
Candace's son,
Candoil, goes
shrilly.
MS. polischa, altered to polischt, ' MS. lynos