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

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Aslmiole.] the queen consults him. 9.
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Sa clere a witt & sa clene my creatoure I • lofe,
As any pj-ophet a-perte to pj'oue 30W pe sotlie."
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With depe desire of delite ay on pat dere wayt/*'.
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j)en scho talkis him to & •
" 3e behald me sa hogely
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quare-on is :our myndf
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jjat all Jje noiis at I neuyn • nobly I can, 260
Quen he bire sawis had sayd he ia his sege leued, He stares on
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tlie queen's
In stoJy stiH as a stane & starid in hire face, face.
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Beheld haterly \>at hend • fat had his hert pe/'cii.]', 26-t
Sone as hire selfe it sawe at he hire • sa behald/^^ wiien she notices
titely him fraynes : iiim'ofwhat heis
" Quare-on muse 30 sa mekiH, Inaister ] " scho sayd^ ; 268
" My frely fode," q^iiod be freke " no3t hot fe werdes • " i am thinking
of what my gods
Of my gracious goddis • )e grettest on erde. 271 have foretold."
)3ai haue tal(J me be-for j^is tyme pat now I trew • fyntl*,
How I suld^ leuge in a land & loke on a qwene."
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Jjan out of his bosom he brayd a blesaud table • [FoI. 5 &.]
He takes out a
Of EuoM* & of othire pingis odly fourmed, • table,
o[f] brijt sUue-, 276
Of bras & of brynt golt • &
bat thre serclis sere • in it selfe hacJ. marked with
three circles.
In be first compas I ken • as me pe claus tellis, in the erst stood
the twelve ' under-
Stude pe xij vndirstandings stoutly engrauen. • standings;'
In ]7is opu' dra3t ware deuysid • a dusan of besti*^ 280 twelve si^n" /
And semely sett was in be thrid . be son & be mone. >" f'e third, the
sun and moon.
Sethen he clekis out of a cas vij clere sternes
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To tell him takens of pe tymes talis of our werdis ;
stoute ojjire tway, 284
And vij stele-grauyn stanys • &
j)at wald for hurte or for harme any hathiU kepe.
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bus as he tuke furth his toylis & his trammys^ schewis, As he shews ws
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implements,
" If I saH lefe on bi lare " •
quod be leue qwene, the queen asks
him to tell her
" Say me pe day & pe same jere & pe selfe tyme 288 when • phUip wa«
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Of pe birth of pe bald kyng pat I best lufe."
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J3an answars Anec onane sayd, "is par 03t ellis
At je wald, hend, of me here * or at aoure hert wiUisI He says he can
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For any cas pat is to com^ • to knaw if pe likis, 292
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MS. I suld I suld ; the two latter n-ords underlined.
* MS. tranmys. ^ MS. coa.
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tell her anything.