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Syme

CFI- Berle

The Vilas of Alexander,

Garly English Text Society.
Erte Situ, No. xuvin.
1886.

BERLIN: ASHER & CO,, 6, UNTER DEN LINDEN,
NEW YORK: _—C, SCRIBNER & CO.; LEYPOLDT & HOLT.
PHILADELPHIA: J, B. LIPPINCOTT & CO,

Ohe Wiars of Alexander:

AN
ALLITERATIVE ROMANCE
TRANSLATED CHIEFLY FuOM Tire

HISTORIA ALEXANDRI MAGNI DE PRELIS.

Alex

REEDITED FROM 20K ASTIMOLE 44, IX THE BODLEIAN IGMANT, OXFORD,
AND MAD. 4, 19, EY THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY OOLLEOR, DUBLIN:

ny THE

REY. WALTER W. , LimD., LED.

HEAUEOTON 45D DOWWO! 908 OF ANOLO-AAXON,
AED FELLOW OF CUKUE'S COLUEGR, CAMURIDUN,

LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY,
BY N, TRUBNER & CO, 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL.

MDCCCLEXKVL,

422439

Extra Series,
XLVI,

CLAY AND SONS, CHAUCER PKESH, BCXOAY,

CONTENTS.
nos

Txrropuction,
§ 1. Tite throo itt in allitorative yorso of tho Romanco of
AS ents A and B belong to the samo vorsion
Frogment C is horo § 3. Stevenson's odition of MS,
44. $4.4 pup in tho story in that MIS; suppliod
from the MS. 64. Plan of present edition, § 0.
fembaring of the Ines. £7, Doserip lg erg stage
discussion of the nth iption of tha Dublin MS.
Diilsi yeh: mn. § 9. Part 2: Alexander,

Tae WANS OF ALEXANDER.
Paasus I. Tolotnstion, Aaselensbus, ae ing of of Best, is is master

pking spo pe thay ee ‘tnt his ME tae oot
baing Elo dinguiose bimestf, and floon to Macedonia,
ae Laid lh ap ete the future dofoat of the Porsiana,

‘bus an image of black stone... 1
amie ‘Dui eae Puli Anoclanabas Vise ju08
During ho gut Atma Twill appear 10. ber
Lig el ean gin ya Hf
of a » He causes Philip to seo in m dream his
w A ocr tells Philip that the quotn's child

oa a 7
ance
ts his
folicion is

Paste TY. A wild carnivorous horvo is brought to Philip,
Alexandor tamos him, and sote cut on his first expedition against
Nicholas, king of Poloponnems Nicholas inealts Alexander,

‘him, and returns home Philip takes a second wifo,
opatra, Alarander fntarfros, und Philip a reconcfed

Pasava XII. Docisive battle of the Granton (Granious), Dofeat
and of Daring Ho writes to Alexander, who bids him
subm: iso papper ia aap ra oe a
aya plat agaiaet Darius; thoy attack him, oid be falls se 178

Passvs XIV. Aloxandor comos to Sum, and finds Darius wounded,
‘Ho laments over him. Their last conversation. Doath of Darit
and acceation of Alexander to the throne of
‘of the throne of Darius. Proclamation by Alexander. Ho
beheards the murdorors of Darius, and weds = 190

. ee er «212
Passes XVIE Nicely rate pager ‘Want of water. A

8inj
botwuen Aloxaniler and tho gigantic Porus, sro festa 210
Paesvs XVIL Aloxander eomos to the isle of Gymnosophists, who
‘tak him for immortality, which he cannot
to a dark dosert, A hot rhea, and dried i
Elophants, beantod women, nmphibious
Greah ster of four wind A cold Yalloy, with spares of
hoy Harald the Ganges Totter of Alexander to Dindimus
, with tho parable of the lighted torch. Baply of
Passva XEX. Roply of Dindimus continued, Description of the ,
‘Lifo of the Brahmans. Their modoration, contentment, absti-
none Jovo of ponco, life in’ cnves, and diilio of
play a ” tes. oe a os oe oo

‘with future torment a ee eee
Passva XXI. Aloxander roproves Dindimus, and accuses tho
Brahmans, whom ho condemns aa miserable and foolish, Dindi-
mus replies, doclaring that Brohmans wi

wchee, Aloxandor ropli

heat climb a huge mountsin, and aro attacked by di
dromolaries, and snakes. They aro nine days in a dark yalley.
‘They oncountor a basilisk, which Alexander destroys by a

INTRODUCTION.

§ 1. Or the various Middle-English prose and verso translations
of the Romance of Alexander the Great, only those which are in
alliterative yorse will be hers discussed, As to these, I have already
explained, in my Preface to “ Alexander and Dindimus,” that thoro
are three such pooms, all fragmentary, which I denote by the letters
A,B, ard C, These pooma are as follows :

A. A fmgmont prosorved in MS. Groaves 60, in tho Bodleian
Library, boginning— "Yee pat lengon in londe * Lordes and oopor,””
‘This was edited by mo for the E. E. 'T. 8, in 1867, being printed in
the same volume with William of Polorne, pp. 177—218, It has
never been printed elsewhere.

B. A fragment proverved in MS, Bodloy 264, boginning—
“Whan pis woith at his wil + weduring hadde." This was edited
by Mr. Stevenson for the Roxburghe Club in 1849, and re-edited by
me, with numerona corrections, &e., for tho E. E. T. 8. in 1878,
with the title “ Alexander and Dindimus”

C. A fragment preserved in MS, Ashmole 44, in the Bodleian
Library, of which a portion ix also found in MS. Dublin D, 4. 12.
Tt begins—" When folk ore festid & fed * fayti wald pai bere?” and
was also printed in 1849 by Mr. Stevenson, and in the same volume
as the last, but from the Ashmole MS. only, without any con-
sultation of the Dublin MS, Thin fmgment C i the one which is
reedited in the preeent volume, and to which, for the sake of dia-
tinotion, I havo givon tho title of “Tho Wars of Alexander,” because
it follows the Latin text ontitled “ Historia Alexandri Magni regis
Manodonie cle prelits” moro closely than cithor A or B doca,

§ 2. With respoct to fmgmonts A and B, I must refer the rader
to the Preface to “ Alexander and Dindimus” for further information,
It is aufficiont to say hore that Dr, Tratmann has shewn, from

Tie GAT IN THE ASiIMOLN am. xi

$4, It i surprising to find that Mx Stevenson edited tho

Ashmolo text without over discovering that thero is 2 groat gap in

the story, He prints 1. 723, which is the first line on loaf 13 of the
Ashmole MS. (as now numbhernd), aa if it immediately followed 1.
722, which is the last line on the back of fol. 12, Yet L722 forms
‘@ part of a speoch of Anectanalus, and L 723. part of « speech of
Aleasander ; and, according to the Ashmole MS,, Ancctanabus drops
out of the romance in the middle of uttering a sentence, and is no
tmore heard of, whilst a king of Peloponnosus, by name Sir Nicholas,
jumps into the story without any introduction, and is at once found
in the midst of an angry parley with Alexander, A moderate
attention to the progress of the story shows us at once, that the
Ashinole MS. must, at this point, have lost one or more leaves, and
‘we now know that it hos, in fact, lost just treo leaves, or 122 lines,
‘The discovery of tho precise state of the caso was made by Mr,
Hoeeeels in 1874, after a carcful examination of the Dublin MS., and
compariaon of it with Stevenson's odition, He found that tho vory
praueage required to fill mp tho gap occurs in full in that MS., which,
notwithstanding its incomplotences at the beginning and end, supplies
this vory material contribution to tha continuity of the story. Evon
now, the conclusion of the Remanee is wanting, since the Ashmole
‘MS. has lost a few loaves at the end alsa After making this
discovery, Mr. Hestclt mando a transcript of the entire MS., and
Kindly consented to asslat me in editing the Romanes. Owing to
pressure of other work, bo resigued to me the preparation of the
Notes and Gloseary, and expressed the wish that my name alone
should appear upon the title-page; but »» much of the work was
done by us jointly, that it is best to deecribo more fully the method
of editing adopted by us,

§ 5. In the first placo, a collation of Stevenson's odition with the
Ashmole MS, wos made by Mr. George Parker; and, as that
edition was printed without any punctuation, the punctuation was
difference aroes. Tk was because it escaped my notice that 1. 9028 in Slevenson
ix iunpediately followed by 1, 9090 ; 20 that, after following his numbering for
more than $000 lines, I wns thus, to my regret thrown oul. There are other

slight differences further on, os oxplalned at p, xill, but the difference in tho
nomberlag never amounts to more than one line,

‘is similarly shown by
‘Vlank on p. 199. Con

Mr, Stevenson's (all pean 12
formance, and contains several false forma, ing,
© forwart" for * forwith” in 1. 15, Ms Gloweary ha"

NUMBERING OF THE LINER xiii
_ here printed for tho first time, from the Dublin MS, at pp. 279—
283.

$6. Ono great defect, in nearly all copies of pocms in alliterative
‘metre, is caused hy the linbility of the ecribe to lose his place, and to
‘miss one or mors lines hero and there, The Ashmole MS, is the
‘more carefully written of the two, but (in addition to the gap con-
tained in the lines numbered 733* to 844°), it misses ton other Lines,
Tn onior to avoid much deviation from Stovenson's numbering of the
lines, theow oxtm lines are here denoted by asteriske, and are called
Tospoctively, linos 1633%, 1766*, L767*, 2168*, 2538*, 2724%, 2842%,
2980*, 3167*, and 3267. The Dublin MS, (in addition to the gap
-exusod by the logs of leaf 40, I]. 3296-—3356) has lost 30 lines, viz
811, 1297, 1333, 1534, 1745, 1749, 1804, 1892, 1874—T, 2012,
2120—5, 2143, 2317, 2318, 2328, 2373, 2380, 2386, 2440, 2519,
2721, and 2808, Unfortunately, I did not discover, till too Into, that
Stevenson's printer missed counting n Line after 1. 3028, va that from
thab point to 1. 4733, the number of each line in this edition {x one Tess
than in his. Here Stevenson misses a line which I have supplied, thus
bringing the numbering righ Unlockily, his printer again missed
counting a line after 1. 4933, so that from this point to the end the
number of each line in this edition is again ono lees than in his,
‘My last line (5677) is the one formerly called 6678.2 ‘This will not
givo much trouble to readers who refor to this volume for words
mentioned by Mitmer and Stratmann, but it is best to explain how
the differenco sroewa. An old numbering, even if faulty, should bo
adhered to, whero possiblo, for the sake of convenience of reference,
I ahall dozeribe the MSS, moro particularly,

§T. Rospecting tho Ashmolo MS. 44, thers is not much to be
sald. Nothing is known of {ta history previously to ita acquisition
by Ashmole. Mr. Stevenson dates it, no doubt correctly, at “the
middle of the fifteonth cantury,” and says that “it is on paper,
written by a hand course, rough, and imegular, without any attempt
at nealness, and without much regard to accuracy, Tho errors into
which the scribe has fallen scem to indicate, in some instances, that

4 Stevenson also molases a line after 1. 4002, but T havo called it 1, 4002,
3 Seo nlio note 1 on p. 56, explnining why” Stevenson's 1, 1098 disappears,

1 aro given in tho Introduction to Morris and

1 Kexamplos : "forwart" for " forwith,? 15 ¢ " wodey
Sor eoren see ‘lt

English, Part IT, wo easily find, in tho Ashmole text, all tho marks
‘of the Northumbrian dialect. It may suffica to instance the mse of
‘the suffix -ie in the first parson singular of tho indicative mood, as
in I ettillie (1S); the wso of iif or -yi for all persons of tho proberite
indicative of weak verbs, as J nenenyid (76), he hauntid (16), put
Teri (36); tho frequent! loss of « in the infinitive mood or tho
gerund, us in rehers (21), to Ana (54), flay (110); the uso of sail
for shail (21), and of sul for ehotdo (100); present participles in
and, as festand (91), comand, leruand (63) ; the omission of i- or yr
aa 0 prefix to past participles, as in fourmed (3); the preservation of
tho final en or -yn of past participles of strong vorbs, as in comyn
(85), coruen (129); tho nao of pir for Mose (262); tho uso of echo
for she (287); tho uso of thai, thair, and thaim (vory common) ; the
use of ethon for hence (seo Glotsary) ; fra for from (139); at for
Mat (161); &e, But it will bo convenient to dofer any furthor
discussion of the dialect til] after tho Dublin MS, has boon described,

§ 8. The Dublin MS. D. 4. 12 contains not only a portion of

Mexander, but also part of a copy of tho A-toxt of Piors tho
Plowman, and has already been partially described in n footnote to
my odition of Piers Plowman (E. E, T. §.), part i p. viz and
again, in my Notes to P. Plowman, p. 838. But E tako the presont
opportunity of giving a mors minute account of ik It is a paper
‘MB, tho size of each pago being about 8} inches by 5}, and each
page containing about 30 lines or rathor more, The first 26 leaves
contain an imporfect copy of tho A-text of Picta Plowman, tho
contonta of which have boon turned by the scribe into a Northumbrian
dialect, ‘Thin copy shows a close connection with the curious copy
in tho library of University Colloge, Oxford, denotod in my collation
‘of the A-toxt by the otter U, as tho following sclocted reailings from
it will ehow.

Prorocus, 1 1. whon—sonne] as I south went, %. into} in,
A—iwere)] 04 Ta scheope wore. 4. Wenele—toydens) I went
wide, 9. leonede] Toned ma 14. imaket] entyred (vic).
82. Lit—to) it is sono in.

4 The scriben often write an idle finnl ¢ wher jt wns not moant to be

sounded ; this ls common, for exarnplo, in the MSS, of Barbour's Bruce.

DESCRIPTION OF THN DUDLIN Ma, xvid

‘a transposition of the subject-matter closely resembling that in MS. U
(see Prof. to text A. p. xx). On the back of fol. 8 is another trans-
position, whero A. vii. 216 is immediately followed by A. i 182
(over again), whence tho text is continuous down to A. vil, 45,
‘Thus A. i. 1824 occurs twice over, and the order of the subject~
matter is: A. prol. 1—i, 184; vil. 71—216; £ 182—vii, 45. On
fol. 13 occurs tho passage printed in the Notos to P, Plowman,
p- 836. Tho toxt ceases at A. vii. 45, at the bottom of the back of
Josf 26, the rest of the poom having been lost beforo it was bound
up with the Aloxander Romance, which has lost (probably) eleven
Toaves! at the begii
$9. With tho Aloxander Romanco, the numboring of the folioa
rocommences. Fol. 1 begins with 1. 678 of the poor (sea p. 23) ;
and, most fortunately, jst 45 lines deform the gap of two leaves
cours in the other MS. It thus supplics the missing passage in
lines 723°—844* (see pp. 25, 27, 29, 31, 93), and goes on without
8 break to the end of leaf 39 (1, $295, p. 197). Hore leaf 40 is lost,
as shown by the blanks on pp. 197, 199, and 201 (lines 3296—3356).
Leaf 41 is the last of the poem ; at the end of which the poem comes
to a sudden stop (J, 3425, p, 205), the rest having been torn away
before the MS, was last bound up. Ib may here be remarked that the
acribo is even more carclosg than the scribe of the Ashmole MS,, and
mitoes linos, viz. 911, 1227, 1333, 1934, 1745, 1749, 1804,
1822, 1874-7, 2012, 2190-5, 2143, 2317-8, 2398, 2373, 2380, 2386,
2440, 2519, 2791, and 2808. Loaf 42 is bound in upside down,
fond has come names and numbers written upon it, evidently part of
ome accounta, Among the names mentioned ary :—T. Hagireton,
Ric. Hagirton, Magister Holborn, Rie. Barow, Joh. Watson do
goswyk, Willedmus sanderson do bukton, Joh, ha de bolsdon, . .
de aneroft, . . de morpet. These cbyiously allude to a clustar of
places lying in that northern extremity of the county of Northum-
berland, which is xo oddly considered ox forming # part of tho
county of Durham. In Pigot’s County Atlas (1891) T hero find
Taggerston, Gowvick, Buckton, aud Ancroft, and (within Northum-
¥ The first 11 extant loaves contain 680 lines. ‘The number of Hines lost at

the beginning Is about 6T7.
ALEXANDER, 4

DIALROTAL Fora, xix

On & fly-leaf ab tho beginning are some accounts sorilbled in
Latin, which commence thus —" Ludwe specialis tentws apat Petyng-
ton yndesimo die monsis septembris per (I) Mayicrwm Toma{m)
castell priorom, R, Heryngton existente seneschallo anno domini
‘Milesimo quingentesimo tercio,” &o. This is interesting as contain-
ing an allusion to a play held at “Potyngton," which may be the
modern Pittington, at no great distance from Durham, whore ther
Se now o railway station; and as giving us tho dato 1503. This
again associates the MS. with tho North of England, and leads us to
suppose that the main part of the MS. was written, as would alao
otherwieo appear, towards the close of the fiftoonth contury,

$10, Tho Dublin MS,, like the other, shews decided marks of a
Northumbrian dialect, ns seen in the use of sail (688), of the pres.
part. in -and, as ayl-and (698), of -es in tho pres. pl, indic., as efraw-ex
(706), of -yn in the pp. of strong verbs, wx knaw-ya (719); &o Bul
the remarks prefixed to Dr. Morris's second edition (1869) of the
Early English Alliterative Pooms warn us how extremely difficull it is
to ecparate the pure Northumbrian dialect from the Midland dialect,
where it borders upon tho Northumbrian; for tho latter is often
marked by the use of Northumbrian forms. We have, first of all,
to consider which of tho MSS. probably gives the dialect more cor
gectly ; and hore I havo very littlo hesitation in at once proferring
tho Ashmole MS., which ought certainly to be most considered ns
being at once the older, moro correct, and moro consistent MS. of the
two. If we compare, « g., lines 678—722 (pp. 22—25), we find thnt
tho Ashmole MS, ateadily keops to the Northumbrian forms whore
tho Dublin MS. varies from them. Examples are: A. wald, 1),
twoldd (690) ; A. fra, D. from (694); A. waytis, D. watyn (700); A.
mon, D. must (707); A. alike, D. mucho (TI). And a further col-
Jation of parallel passages will amply confirm thess resulta We
even find, though rarely, in MS, A. such a clear mark of the
Northumbrian dialect as the use of at for fo to denote the gerund ; 1s
in at grete, i.e. wo weep (872), af drede, to dread (4294). Tt would
fake a prolonged examination to enable me to speak decisively on

— 2 T hore (and below) denote the Axhiiole M8, by “A,," and tho Dublin
MS. by “=D.”

Iattor half of 714 is right in D., but wrong
may read either angirly or augirly; but ti

METHOD OF TRANSLATION. ext

of the Romance, viz. fragment A (printed with William of Palorne)
and fragment € (printod on Alexander and Dindimua), Of thoao,
‘the former illustrates I. 23—803*, and the Isttor lL 4019—4714 5
as noted at p, 285, For further examples of this, see tho Notes

§ 12. We come now to consider how tha tranelater has performed
‘is task, Ho has given us but little of his own, tho chief original
pasenge being the first 22 lines, which aro introductory. Ho has
also divided his work into Passus, by way of affording intervals of
rest, and sometimes adds a fow lines of his own at the baginnings
and onda of these, such as . 212, 213, 214, 593, $24, de. At auch
points, we may particularly observe that he uses such expressions ws
pe text me recordis (214); as says me the tect (741*, p. 27); as pe
buleo eacis (831); For ald pe firet [part] is in fltis (3475), The most
explicit passage is the following (Il. 3472-3) :-—

* Do Inttir cade of his lyfe * me list zow to telt.
For alf po first is in fittis - & folownnd the leti{r.’*

‘Tore he expressly tells us that he has already arranged the preceding
part of the work in Pasiws, and that it was “ following the letter," i, c,
moro or Joas literal translation from tho “toxt” which was before
him. Tt docs not apponr that ho has adopted any singlo toxt ex-
clusively, but tho main part of tho narrative follows, with tolerable
fidelity, the Latin toxt known as the “‘ Historia de Prolii,” Of this
work, I fortunately possess an excellent black-letter copy, printed at
Strasiburg in 14891 which has been of great help and service in
making out the true sense of several passages. In order to shew
how the translater has treated his original, I have quoted the whole
of the first Chapter of this work in the note to 1. 13, on p. 285, Tt
answers precisely fo the translater’s Primus Passus, I. 23-211;
fines 1—22 and 212, 213 being obviously additions to it. I have
also, in the note to lL 722, quoted the whole of the Latin text
answering to the two missing leaves in the Ashmole MS. But, in
general, each Passas of the English version contains several chapters
of the Latin text; thus Passus Socundus is oquivalent to the second,

4 In my Notes to Alexander, fmgment A (printed with William of

Palernd) and fragment B (Alexander and Dindlimus), I have quoted m copy {n
the University Library, printed fa 1490.

f two, but occasionally corrects the other ; :
of the MSS, is often correct where the othor ie ob

PROBABLE DATE OF THE TRANSLATION, xaill

at them without at any rate consulting tho-chief Latin text; and
even in that they froquontly assume the most singular forma, In
the English text, for oxample, tho goddess Ceres beccmes a god
named Serenon (4510), Bacchus appears a8 Bary (4506), Hercules
as Avendious (4068), and Cyrus aa Ciurye (3219).

§ 13, Aa to the dato and dialect of tho original composition,
nothing is really known. We can only conjecture that the original
was probably written ina pure Northumbrian dialect rmther than in
‘Weai-Midland (but even thia may be wrong), and that the version
belongs to the former half or to the middle of tho fifteenth century.
When the barrenness of this period is complained of, ne ts not un-
frequently the case, we ought to remember that, in addition to the
poems by known authors, it is probable that such anonymous poems
as tho Morte Arthum, the Troy-book, and the two versions? of
Alexander belong to the sme period, and compare favourably with
the poems Ly Chaucer's euccessora I suspech that the dates usually
assigned to other alliterative poems ary often too early; and that, for
example, the date which I formerly suggested for the other fmgments
‘of tho Alexander Romance, viz, 1340-50, should be placed later.
At the samo timo, this is a point of extrome difficulty, as the MS,
copies aro all of later date thon the period of the original com-
positions, and thoro i» no available evidence by which wo can
correctly judge of the intervals to be assigned.

In tho Glozasrial Thdox, wo have endeavoured to inclade every
form that ceours in both tho MSS., aa well as to furnish a comploto
indox of all the proper names, The poem eeome to me to be of
‘anuenal difficulty, Many of the wonls could only be cormetly ex-
plained by collating both MSS. ; and others only by comparing the
original Tatin. Soveral forms aro thus ascertained to be corrupt or
inaccurate; and, in consequonco, in some passages whore thoro is but
one MS. and no clearly corresponding passage in the original, it is
very diffleuls to be quite certain that the correct-sense has beon given,
‘We consequently offer the explanations for what they ara worth;
cee have cost « great expenditure of time and Ixbour,

‘Tho former Is that uot emeniivas logit of. hick teapnenle kee
Weibot aieat toa ie otter fa the vero here printed,

=

[Romance of Alexander the Cereat.]
(MS. Ashmols 44 ; fol. 1.)
Hen folk are fost & fd - fay wale pai hove Aner

tots,
‘ven Uke Lo bear &

Sans farand ping’ efter fode* to fayn pare her[t], story.
Or pai ware fowrmod of fold or puire fadirs oper,

‘Sum is lene to lythe - po lesing of Sayntis, & Some like ta heer
‘Dat leto per lifis be lorne * for onre lords? sake ; shontagece
And sun has langing' af Lufo ~ lays to herken, ne

‘How ledis for paire lommans * has langor endured.

Sum couettis & has comforth - to carpe & to lostyn 8

Of curtaissy of kny;thods - of craftis of armys,

Of kyngis at has conquirid * & ourr-comyn landia, tere sarin
Sum of wirschip Iewis slike as push wyse lattie, coomerare
And sum of wantei werkis * pa fat ere wild-hodid'; 12

Bot if pai wald of many wyse - a wondire ware it ela;

For as puire wittis ere with-in - 30 per wilt folowis.

And 1 forwith 3ow aif * ottillis to schowe ll ey at al
Of ane Emperoure fe azefullest - pat over armya hauntic, from nonowned
pat was po athill Alexsandiry- as po bake tellis, 17 Atuuoder,
at azte ouyn as his awyf * alt the werd ouine.

For ho recouerd quills ho regnyd * po regions alt clone,

And all rialme & po riches * in-to po redo ost, 2u

T ealt rebers, & 30 wil ronkis * rkyn jour tongis,

A romnant of his rialte * é& rist quen vs Ukis,

‘JF Onto in po orth of Fyipt - onhabet vmquile Riewwaet
pe wysest wees of the wont * as Tin writt fynd. 24 shot men.
For pai pe mesure & po meth ° of alt fo mulile couthe,
pe wisn af alt po grete seo - & of po urym wawys; E
¥ MS. lon? = lordis perhaps.
ALEXANDER, 2B

Ashmole.] ARTATRNXES INVADMH ROYIT. a

‘Of his enmys in pat Eloment + ano endles nombre; 60 te scene
‘Fo ‘sase fam in po hijo noo - aniland togedire, ete
Was neuer eone alike a some * ynder po son bemyan =
‘Carrygis comand he knew * keruand fo ithis,

Dromonds dryfes oucr po dopo * with dukis & Erles, 64

‘Gales & grete schipis - full of grym wapens, Flo tehalie
And fol of broneid bernes + bargia a hundruth, Cd
Of slik a nane is noy - to here or to tell.

For all pe largenes of lenth «at ho luke myst, 68

Slik was po multitude of mast * so mekit & so thike, The mats wove
Dat wit him po3t bot he treis «a hare wod it senyd. inna woot.

‘At po onteris of Egipt as Anoc had beden,

Ware poris of his prouynoe * & princes of lis cytes, 72

Was comandid of faire kyng - to kepe fa landis,

hat nane aproche it to paire » of Persy ne othire,

pan was a warden ware * oute in pe wale stremys One of his princes
Of all po nae & fe note - I nenenyd beefirs ; 10 eo
Lagt listly his ledis + & Jouys his warde,

Comes to courte to po kyng + & of knoys fallis,

Ano bi his awyn namo * ho onane gretia, snd tle
Sais, “*zaro fo now opely ‘ or zild yp pi rowme; 80
Artaxenees is at hand * & has ano ost reryd,

And reayn vp with a8 his rewmo * to rido ve agayfi ;

For he him-solf is off po co - with sichs a some armed, "Anas
pat any hathill vnder hove - ware hardy to rekyn. 84 grost nary;
For per is comyfi with him kny3t{os]* of landis dyuerso,

Sogis of many syde ~ oute of gers remys,

‘po persoyns & a pupiH + pat parthy? is callie, Pvetan ant
‘Men of Mesepotaymo - & of Mode bathe, Meso

Of Syre & of Sychim * a sell nounbro,

Of Capidos & Caldec « kene men of armes, Copmadeciane
Fell fogtand folke - pat Faire we calf, (ratey"
po Arrabiens & all pu « [of] fat origyne, 92

Dernys out of Batary « batails arayed,

Aud cite out of fe orient - many od hundrethe.” ——ssdthers ot

1 MS, kayjt. | MS, panthy,

# algate * as his arte wall, 138
Lis? coruen alt of quyts - liga tens

ind quon he come to pat kith as po chance telliv, 144

Oft with his instrumenti# out = he openly deuynes,

d noper hilt he it no hid * bot here qua s likid.

ot pan wis methe! for to mele * purze mew of his bur3,

"pat he by-hind him at hame- withoute hede louy®. 148 (naan)
Slik care kindils in his curte-quen Jai fer kyng myssid, =
pat it ware tere any tonge * of par tene to reken ;

| ‘Princes of his palas - preses in-to chambre,

| To laite par lord at was lost with lotie vn-blythe; 152
“Kairis in-to closettis knyztis & Erlis, Kekehte ant
Bekand par souerayfi * with many salt terys ; ry
Barons & bacholers * balefully gretés,

_ Swiers swomylo - ewouned Iadys, 16

| And many waa po bald borne + at banned par quile,

pat cucr he dared pat day * yndedo opon orthe,

‘Bot quen pai wist he was went + d& wald nozt be foun, Pintle
Coutis pai na bote pam obland * how beat for to witke,

I ‘Bot silis to ser Sirraphis * at sittis in his trone, 16] ey wheat

* MS Astralalos. * MS. In adrentes,
* MS. proplete, * or mecbe.

Bo it hoo, be [it] acho « haly pare worden,
And if I ay it my-selfe * elik sotellte Th
"MS, redis@ redis; the ¢me latter

J ‘THE QUEEN CONSULTS mim.

clere a witt & m clone * my creatoure I lofe,
at all pe notés at I nonyn * nobly I caf, 260
pany prophet s-perte « to proue sow pe sothe.”
ho pire sawis had sayd * ho in his sogo ened, —_—Hestaresen
tory sti#t as a stane « & starid in hire face,
hatorly pat hond « pat had his hort percia, 264
HA depo desire of delite - ay on pat dere waytis.
Sone as hire selfo it eawe * at he hire wa behaldés, Whois ho notions
‘pen acho talkis him to * & titely him f
© Quare-on muse 30 sa mekih, muister 1" scho sayd;
4 3e bebald me sa hogely * quare-of is jour mynd 1"
“My frely fode,” quod pe freke * “ no3t bot pe wenles Tam takes
OF my gracious goddis * pe grettest on erda. OTL havemmiaiee
Pai haue tald me be-for pis tyme * pat now T teow fynd,
‘How I wuld? lenge in a land * & loke of a qwene.”
ran out of his bosom he brayd + a blesand table nei bO
Of Euour & of othire pingés - oly fourmed, bo rae
OF ms & of brynt gol? + & off] brizt siluer, 276
pat thre eerclis sere * in it selfe had, matted eis
Yn fe first compas I ken - as me fe claus tellis, Tu" wos
Stude pe xij vudirstandings * stoutly engrauen. mda nee
In fis opir drast wore denysid * a dusan of bestés, 280 (uci 'sguay
| And semely sett was in Fe thrid . fo soft & fo mone, inthe third, the
| Sethon ho clekis out of a cas ~ vij clere nternes
‘To tell him takens of fo tymes - & talis of our wordis;
And vij stelogranyn stanys - & atoute opire tway, 284
Jat wald for hurte or for harmo * any hathill kepo,
pus as he tuke furth his toylia & his trammya" echowia, Ase shew his
Lf Dealt lofo om pi Lare” + quod po lous qwene, emai
Say mo fo day & po same gore * &e po eclfo tymo 288 thu Pulp vu
OF po birth of po bald kyng * pat I bost lafo.” ve
pan answars Ance onane - sayd, “is par oxt ellis
At 30 wald, hend, of me hore * or at joure hort willis? polly
For any cas pat is to com? to knaw if po likia, 292

1 M8, Fauld T suid; the treo latter words underlined,
MS tranmys. MS, con,

yn: Mimo ht he
ginning.

and fleetothe — Flizand in his fethire-hames *
ad And in a braide, ov he blan *

1f A DHAGOS CONQUERS PitiLIP's Fors,

oI

sone in delingis of dyntis * a dragod aperis, Adragon

‘stres befor him in pe stoure * strikis doune his Puup'sien

fans, 452

alt his enmys in pat erd « he endid in a stounds,

Phylyp with his faire folke * had po fild wo,

motis ho him to Mcssadone ~ ar saotia him pe ratte rere
Pou nb ose

456

‘And how ho fore acho him fraynos ‘ forly 3erne,

Wels, graunt mercy,” quod po kyngt:“ my god, L him — ffol.es.)
lous 5
~ Bot how pat 30 ga sa? grote * gud dame!" ho aayd,
ou haa ragid," queel fo renge *“ with vnryd goatin ; He mquires how
Now hafe F, lode, alt to lange « lengid fra hame,” 461 ™*“**
pus to bre hire o bourds * ho breuya pire wordia
= To quam has pou pe tano tik * tet m[e] peo sothot
‘Outhire mote has mondid pe full mekitt - aay, cache

trowo,
‘Or ane bos stollen in my atede * gegen
| pus bayst he pe brist qwene - pat all hire ble changid,
To ekyre skarlet hwo * skyftie hire face, Tha que
Hire chero at was chalke.quyte * as any chaffe? worthis; ""™"™**
So was acho schamed of pe schont ~ pat hire po schalk
made, 469
™ Nay, quod pe comly kyng * “cache vp fino hert, Fillp comforts
ote pou hane forfot, na force * a0 has fele othire. *
hou uw giltid, bot nogt gretly * it yreuys ime po les; 472
For god has goten po pis gett * a-gaynes pi wilt;
Ail pat was done pe bodene “was me be dremeschewyd, telng her eae
T sazo it surely as my-selfe ~ slepe in my tentés, dream,
And ours god ali-to-gedire ~ is ground of pe cause; 476
‘Of me worthis po po? wite * no of na wee ellis.”
© ben tyd it anes of a tym * lytiH terme elter, One day, at a
bis dere kyng of a day * off his deso ayttis, 479
‘Had parreld him a proude feete - of princes & dukie,
1 MS. repeategneo, * Orchnase. —* Read mm

Ashmole.J THE QUEEN'S TRAVAIL DRAWS NwAn, Ww

af was ser Philip of pat fara * forly mokilt sturbid,

Callis to him a kid clerko + declaris to him pis wonder,

Béeo3zt him quat it eygnified * to tett him pe treuthe, (Fos

“pat graunt I gudly,” quod pe gome * & pusgute ho A ser sayy,
apokia:

516
* Sita, per sal borno bo a barno * of pi blithe lady, Year qos's
pat driztyn ofter pi day * has destaned to regne, Bieri
+5

po quilke gall walke alt po word * & wyh it him solfo, reurning homo."
And hont sal a fult hotire doth' + or ho may hama
cousr.” 520
pus ho yndid him ilk dele* + & him pe dome reched,
Said it waa sett to bo so * he enzo by his arti,
And if jow likis of pis laro * to leston any foxthire,
‘Sone salt I tell zow a text * how it betid ofl. S24

G Tevcius passus Alexandri.

‘ow it test po tymo ‘ab trauald pat qwenc,

Quon echo auld bryng furth «hire birth to po word. eval nt
Scho bidis many hard braydo * barot onduris,
What of wandreth & wa «as wemen dose alt, 628.
‘Thik echouris hire thrat - tholid mokit sorojo, ‘he auifers much,
Many peralua pull * grote payno euffirs,
Sa sare workis hire po wamo * & slik vi-wyn drela,
pat all echo dredis hire dede * & douto for po werst, —_sndexpeota dont

pan efter Ancctanabus * scho on-ane clepis, 533

And he was boune at hire bode * & bowes to hire
chambre,

Gais him vp at po groce + & gretie bith fatro, snare

Fund hire ott in a sege * & sorose ay olike. 536 gees ber

AS Anoo 1" qued po qwene * “mo ares of my-selfe; Tan
Tam alt in aunter - sa nkis me pe wamo, =

Of warke well ne I wade * & slike wa tholia, 39

Dat me ware dere to be dede * &4 dure pus on lyfe” cru 10)
3a, wynnes gow vp,” quaid po wo > & walkie a JittiH, teatro”

"MS. dorth 5 eo J, 512. + MB. tika adele; wrongly, ae
* Read than,

ALEXANDER. c

the margin, * MB.
Onde saxty ir ni Ga ip

Ashmole.) ALEXANDER'S APPEARANCE, Ww

pat* hours pat Olympadas - was of hire son lister, S72

Than lendis him vp pe lous kyng * hia Indy to yysite,

Quod fo man to his make - “Cam in many thogtis, — mtip comfort
Dat pis frute salt havo na fosteing "ne be fed! noupive ;

T ges it be no3t of my gett - bot of god fourmed; S76

Be many cause at I kei * I kan not supose

Tt be consayued of my kyndo * ne come of my-eelfe.

T enzo 20, in fo samo tyme * he seuyrd fra pi wambe,

Do ord & olf po elomentis * 90 egirly echoutid.? 580

And quoper sit, for any quat *a quyle Intt him kepo, — Pitipatvige
And noriscl him as namely ‘as he myne awyn warre, seat
Zit will pare make of him myndo * & myn it hore-oftire thorn,
‘Hathils, ewilke a holy sof > Lhade in my tyme. 584

Anopew barne,” quod pe berne - “I of my blodo haus,

Ano of my sodo, I supose + & sibbite of fe twa,

pat I wan on myno opire wyfe * pat Lwedd first, 987

Lat him ax ayro, quon am orped - enherit my landis, "tots tot
And stat we bim in stede of pis - to wtiztiit my rwane, &
For ho ia borno of my blode * d& a-bore norre,

And fodo wo pisothire, pat? folkerquen woorsfay worthi, vt thi
‘May aitt & carpe, slike a knaue * paire last kyng bade." taben eae of?*
pai did all as he demod » & his domes plesed, 593

‘Cherest pai pix zonge child» & chosely him kepid ;

pai ware ns besy hit a-boute + birdis & ladiz, Rein
‘As ha had bene par bige gor * for sa pai hopid al, 596 farm
pis barne, quen he borne was - us me pe boke tellis,

‘Migt wele aprefe* for his a-port - to any prince onte.

Bot of po lyfe pat he 1izt off » he like was to nane,

Nouper of fetour ne of face * to fadire ne to modyre; tray
be fax on his faire hede * was forly to schawe, G01 meals was
‘Largs Iyona lockis * pat lange ere & scharpo ; —ey on
With grote glesenand oen * grymly ho lokiv,

pat ware aa blyckenand brizt * ns blesand sternes, 604 Msreasens

+ MS. pat oj bet 9 te expnncted.
* ME. echontiesiteed to woutid | Added iu themaryin
‘MB, 8 pory, altered f0 a profe.
ce

Bot at god wilt at gaa furth ©
‘Tn absene of Arystotiit » if any

Ashmole.] ALBXANDES HAS XO PRRAL aL

Put al to-brost wald Fe bondis « & pe blode folowe. 640

If any seolore in po scole * hia ekorno at him makia,

He skapis him fult skathely * bot if ho ekyp better.

ua with his forts ho fast > ag I fynd wrotes, Hehe wih
As wole if letter & in lare * a9 any laike ollis, 644

pus ckilfalt lange be seolaid * & fe scole vest,

‘Tille he was euyn of el = ellonya wynter,

He had na pere in na place * pat proud so his tyme, Me he no peer,
For po principalte of all po pake ~ he of a-prefe wynnys.

And quwen it text to pe tyme * of ten zere of age, 649

pon was him kewl of po kynde * & craft of batailo,

‘Wele & wigtly in wer « to welden a spero, Ite earns to
Afnd] preke on a pronde stede + proudly enarmed, 652 “™*"""
pat Inre was him lefo to - & lorid in a qwile

Was par ua lede to him like * witinin a fewe juris,

So choualus chifaf * he cheuys in stonde, Zaserpemn a
Pat in anters of armes - all men he passes. 656
Quen Philip soe him sa fers - in his first elde,

His hert & his bardynes * hijely he lofed, Ponty somaende

Comendid mekitt his kny3t-hede ~ & him callid of a day *"™
Be-twene fam selfe off a tyme - d& talkis pire wordis :

“ Alexander,” quod po kyng'« “Tangizly prayao 661

pi wirschip, pi worthines + pi wit & pi strenth.

Ex nano 80 teche of pi tyme « to tryi now o lyfe, (Fol, 12)
How auld I, lede, for pi lofo * bot lofe po in hert? 664
Bot I am sary for sothe + my sof, at pi fourme

As lickenand of na lyf * no like to my selfo 5

Olt storbie mo pi atatour - & stingis mo jerne,

pat pi personale proporcion * sa party is to myne.” 668
pis herd hire po hend quone * & heterly scho dredis, The quan
Sent ofter Anoc * és askis him be-lyno, ‘Srosnsaben:
Boknow him clono alt po casa ~ how pe kyng say’,

And frnyns him fast quat pe freke * of hire fare thingis.

‘pen con he calke & wconte * & kest on his fyngirs,

Lakis him vp to pe lifte - & pe Indy swares : 674

“ Be nogt a-frizt,” quod pe freke * ne a-frayd noupir, — Me comforts her,

Dublin] «= ASD TWAT HIS OWN EON WILE SLAY ane

Hedes heterly on hezht - belield on a sterne, Gis

OF po whilke ho hopyd in hys hort’ « somqwatt to know,

What cuer ho wilnot for to wete * bys wille alt togeder.

pen anyd alexander to pis atholt « as he by hym etonndes,

“ What is po planott or po poynt + yho prerpoaso! to sof

Or what sternc at yo stody of * whore stckys it in
houeht

May 3 oght in any maner me to pat merke shawo I!" 684.

«pat can I wele,” quod pis clerke *“ellys couth I bot
lytyB;

Noght bott show? mo now, sono * qwen po oll is at riat,

‘When it ix dryven to pe dirk & po day fynyshyt,

And po satt sorely po sama * soo with pleghen.” 688

“(Ts oght pi ward to po wistt” > quod po wy pan ;

“For pat I Couott to ken - if pu me kyth wold.”

“ Syr, sothly of myne awef gon * slaya mon T worth,

So was [me] destinate to dy * done mony wynter.” 692

Als tyte as anectanabue * pees aunters had tald,

‘Than twmed he dout from fe toure * to tote on pe sternes.

Joan ayres sér alexander * attir hys fader,

bat cuer ho come of hys kynde * know [he] fault lityH. 696

pus lode he forth is leue sonfi * late on af cuch,

Syland softly paim solfe * po cyte with-owte,

Bownes paim yp to a brenke «as pe buko tellys,

To fo hight of fo hyo dyke * & to po houen watyn, 700

“ Alexander, athelt sonfi” + quod anoe hys fader,

“Boyond be-hald ower my hed * & so my hote werdcz

bo ilko stoma of orcules * howo ogerly it eorower,

‘And how po mode of meroury makya so moky# Toy ; T04
Lo! how gontyH Tubiter « how joyfully ho ehynos,

pe Domes of my dostany * drawes vnto [mo] swyth,

+ MS. propose. # ries read wow.

23

trai

Dublin] ‘THE QUEEN LAMENTS HIS DENTE. 25

Thik & thraly am T thrett & thole must T sone
pe slannghter of my awne sont * als me was eett ever.” TO8
Vaneth warpyd he pis word pe writt mo reconlez,
ut alexander als belyfe * was at hym bylyue,?
And on po bak with suche a bir hym bare wilh hys
handez,
bat Dontt he drafe into fe dyppest’-of po dyke bothum; 712 cFa.aa
Sayd: “lo! vuhappyest yndir heuon * pat pus on hand
takes
Ala be welkyn to wote ‘ what worth ea her-aftir!
Hano fonyd po for wyno * & fals all to-goder,
Wele semys auche a sschelt * to sope pus of lyfe!" 716
pan Ance, als hym awght * welo awganily grance,
Dryvez vp a dede voyce * & dymly he spekes :
“Welo was pis to mo knawyn * & kyd mony wynter,
‘That T auld dey auch a dede?* by? dome of my wordis, 720
Sayd I po noght so * my self here boforne
Tauld be elayn of my eon * als now is soth worthen?” 722
“What, and am J," quod alexander * “ano of pi Yousreny
childert” Ta3e
“Zha, sof! ala glad T my god *T gat po my seluen.” 724%
Fro he had hym pis wonde sayd?* he wakens no more, Miemeritur
Bot gaue a gremly grane * & pe gust zheldex. senciensine
That oper wy for hys werkes * wepys cueryllyke, diate
So hard & so hertly * pat nez hys hert brestes, 728°
us plenys pis prouud knyght « pe pyte of bys fader,
Cares hym downe into pe cafe - par as pe cors ligges, wotcuree
Belife lyftes he on-lofte ~ oun on hys shulders, 731* oiy.
‘And bores hym forth yppon hys bako * at po brado gates.
Sone sayd po whone, when sho hym see * with syland tores ;
“What haue 30 done, my dere soni?” * & drowpye dou

in swone,
"Dame, now is par nane other to do * bot demo it pi geluel, Ateander
For as pi foly was before * eo folowoth aftir.” W368 meet

* read byhynde, * erilten above the line in MB,
? written above the tine in MB,

Dublin.) A WILD MONsH x MNOUOIT TO rurtir. aT.

‘Than makes pis man & hys moder - menskfully & faire

Titely hys enterment > a8 pai pat tyme vand,

ous shamesly of hys awne childe- hym chevyd such end. Sperahet
And her fynes a fytt - & fayr when va likes, 740%

Quartus passus,
‘Tho samo & po solue tymo * as snys me pe text, Ayes
Fro po cuntro of enpadose * come a kyd prince Philips wit
To kyng philip pe fers * & hym a fale bryngez ; =
A grott horse & a hoge - a hegh & a wilde, TH
A store & a styf stede * stalwortly bondyn ;
His choH chaltird & chaueles * in chynes of yref ; fray
Tu rapes fast * for ryfyng of bernes ;
For other mete pun manysflesche “mouthed he newer, T48* who fot won
Busifolen to pis blonk * was brewed pe name. val
He hed so ferifult a face - as ony fyre lokex 3
Bere als a boles! heaed a beyn on hys shulderr,
And toton owt! of bys top «als tyndis of hommes, 752
Tho fayrnes of pis ilke fole * when philip avysed, Pop ws
pan says he to hys seruand - to sco to fis capylt, mala
And stighillys hym in som stede * stable by hym ono,
With lang lates of yron + fat ho might lig in. 7508
And all at wer dampned to po doth * & demyd at po Inwe, seletodupon
poi eal bo brost! fra po bate * pis blonk into stablo, —
To wory at hye awne wille « & weyle? of po fattest. 759%
3it philip of hys faire goddes * hym fanges auch a swarc, — The pote my
Yi ony berne wer wo bald - baron or other, a ied
Or wy pat myght pis wilde beat’ * worth for to ryde, wena
Was dowly aftir hys day - destinate to rogno, Fate
When alexander was of elde - awght jeres & foure, 764"
pan was he worthy & wight - ds wisely hod loryd
At arestotelt alt ouer - po artex all wenef,
Awl exstor, ang oper clerke par * at wer hys kyd maisteres. aterander a
So carva he in fe castelt-zardo 4: commesonaday 768* Gu #7"
Ty a wyndow als pis wild horse * [was] warloked in baniles ;
! Altered to Voyles in later hand, —* M8, wele, corr, to weyle,

%

Dublin] ALEXANDER TAMES DUGEPHALUS, 29

Tokes in at a lat sagh ly hym byforne Harn tie
So mony menbres of men * wer mervayle to tell. ‘roared by

phar liggez lymmes of laddes * loggez & harmes, 772° ancama’
‘Thormes thrist owt of thees - banes & shuldres,

Sota hauchyd of pe heuod * som po handez ety,

Bom par riggoz owt rytte ~ & som par ribbez rent,

Of pis wonder he hed + & so he wolo bund, 770°

Anil hardly bys awno hand * in at » hole puttes, oe
Ho? layd owt a lang neke * & hys hand likkys ; and
Faire faldee hys foto / & fallee? hym to po orth,

Henily haldes vp hys heued * byheld in hya face, 780®

On Alexander ny-whare * euer elike wates. (rel.
pan wist pe wy wele enogh * hys wy all-to.geder ;

Brades vppo pe brade jate * d& po barre entros, ee

On pe rige with hys right bande «lym rodely straker, 784° Fo
And he fult frely & faire = hym faunys & loutex,

‘Was newer baralett in band * moro baxum to hys lord,

on was pis blonke to pis bern for nH his bremo teches,

[pus lowtes pis lode on low * & lowsys hys chyner, 788 Hemtn
Blyssis blythly hym abounte * & a bridyH fyndex; tae
Grathez on pis gay gore * & pon a gilt sadyH ; shoe
Tecies hym forth of pat logo - & fon of-lofte lepys.

‘Than atrenys he hys streropes * & atrezt vp sitter; 792*

Lad bym by pe Toran « & hym pe lede wiseee,

And ho als rekyndly man * rolland hym vader,

As ho po sadyB hed sewyd * seuenten wynter,

Sone as philip po forse *hym on fis fole motes, 790 riipre
‘*$omh" he wayd, “now er fo sawos “into i seluen fynesbit, taped
Right ax my graceux gode - hase galot mo before,

For pou must rewle all my reali - qwen I am raght hyne.'
Quod alexander als beliue - “any awne athelt fader, 800
L beseke pe my souerun * pat pou my acte dross

Tn a chosyn chariots - a# a chefe maister,

With folawand mo a fair flote * of fele men of armes.”

1 MS, And, corr, fo He, * M3, fnbdir, currected.
MS. hys fete, repeated, but atruck out.

Dablin] ALEXANDER'S FIRST EXPEDITION. 31

© pot graunt I gladly," quoi po gomo * with a godo willo,
“Frist of my faire foles * fang Fo a hundroth; —_S05® Pb gine
And ayno soxty thowsand, my eof > pou! pi soluen wale tw and
OF shillyngee & of ehire gold * to shote in pi Cofyre; [est
Syno of my chofe chiftanes - chese po pe? best,

pe most proved of my princes * in poyntex of were; S808*
‘Wyes ne no wale wede * want shat pe noper,

And held on with a hale here * pay hersound pou worth."

‘Thys barne hym buakes az ho beda * & bade he no langra,

Bot gmthox hym to pa gata with agyn nobla 812"

Forth with eufestyus he ford + a freke pat he loaed, Aenanier
Dat was a fyne Philo[so}ife}r * a frend of hys awne, we
Zitte taker he hym witi-owte pe town - twelf tried childer, tas ant ts
pat he hed Cosyn hyin for chefe ~ bys chevalry to lede;
And fair oaformed pam of fight + d& fotex of armez 817*

For 3apost in hys awno yoke * zarly to drawe 5

Fers felons with hym fanges * & florens enowe,

Fall preciouse apparement'* hys person to cloth, §20*
Comand kenely hys knyghtes - to kepé to hys blonkez,

at not ynchounco faim achefo * pat in po chare zodex,

He prokya forth on hys play * bot with a proway mengo, wih asnall
Chaterand with hys chiftanes * in bya child ger, 894% fee
To poliponanses haso ho passed * a province vak[nJawyn, Peer"
And so wos atrykyn or he styntyd *in-to pe strange reali,

‘The kyng of patt cuntreo * pat po kyth weldyd,

Which was callyd nicholas « & hym naytly motes, 828% Termes
Had mayd vp « rode hoste « & heldyd hym ayaynex Nichola
‘With bald baratours on bent * hym bate to 3elde.

He flonge ow[t] on n fers fole * far from hys hoste,

Ayrus to air alexander ° & angrely franes : 882° Nici
“What is pi name, nolesman - neuen me pe sothe ; eraser
And whyne ert fou & who - & what makys pou here?”

pe knyght, as he wele couth * hym curtasly answers :

“Sir, kyng philip pe ferse * my fuler was hate, 836"

"MB, bat, corr. to p ben, * MS. the, ever. to fe.
7 MS, wroth, * peritten abore the line in M3,

_ For pou hase no3tyd mo now * nicholas," hesayd, 753
© Tswere by my syre sanle * & by hys seluon pyto,

j THEIR ARMIES MEET.

he had spokyfi so, in epite * he spitice at hye favo,
hym dyspytuasly * rovylez hym foule,
po par-to," quod po atholt » “pat pe to haus somes,
for pi kone carpyog ‘cache now ashame!” = 743.
yros hym forth alexander * & hys aynde takes,
Jet smnge or ho aware * po swelme of bys angre,
hym how he say wald * or he aunswer sholde,
‘And turnyd hym pen to pis tulke » & talkez pir wontez:

And be pat worthi wombe * of my wala moder

‘pat Twas gettyn in of god - & grathly consaued,

‘Thu sees me, lede, in pi land - or oght lang enarmed,

Anil oper recouer me pi reali - or recho me vppo [pe]
girly.”

Jan srt pai paim on suche a day * to semble & to fight,

‘Anil pur-to takex vpp par trewthes - & twynnont in-sonder,

pan gods hym furth pis yong man * japely & swithe T6L

Tato pe marche of masydon ' & manly assembles

Of sowiours & of syker mef - a some owt of nowmbre,

hat wer pe baldest & po best * brouet in armez. 764

He Apporels bym a pround oste * of princes & oper,

Ferkys to sire philip - & fonges hys leuc,

And pai busifolon hys blonk «ho bromoly assondes,

And bowner on with hys bute ‘in at po brade yatez. 768

pe same day pat was cot * po eomblyng of bath,

Athor with a fers flote + in pe felde metya,

be nowmbre of sir nicholas * it noyt? me to rekya,

And alexander was ane ost’ > of awgorly mony. 772

‘With pat pai tukkya vp pair trompez * ypon fe two
sydes,

758

Bradez banors on brado + buskes to mote.
So knellyd pe clarions * pat att Fo elyff rongon,

' Soin MS,

RAD

Dublin] ALEXANDER SEAYS HO,

That po holtex of pe heer woile * & fe hillez sheucn. 776
Tike athelt to hys hors * hyes hyz belyue,
Biriden to stale-bowe * startyn vpon lofte,
aa holmes ypon hodes ful hey -& bynget ymby par shwyre
A shemerand sheld + & pair shaftes byntea. 720
What of stampyng of stedes * & strippyng' of bancra,
AH demmyd po dale » & po duate risen,
Witt sucho a bront & a broush * fe batel assembled,
As fo orth & ait fo clementes ‘at ancz had wrystyllyd, 784
Now athor stouro on par atedes * atriken to-gediir,
Sprenten owt spakly * witi spores in hand,
Brochen both basynetter * & brouden sheldes,
Borea in-to bright stele * bitand lancez, 78s
Sono in-to sheuerand shides * shaftex to-bristen,
AH to-sprongen into sprotes * spores of ciprisa,
Dryvez downe docesperes - and dukez of blonkez,
Felles fay to fo fold * many fers knyghter, 792
What dogs mo now pis nicholas * bott nymmez bym a sper,
‘Kest hym on pis yong knyght * to gett hym a namo;
And alexander with an oper * ayers hym ayayns,
Ridyn grymly to-geder » & grysly motyn, 796.
So [sar] was po semble * [pir] Seges hy-twene,
at all towwmsted pai wod * & warpyd in-sonder,
AH claters in clyftwe clene to pair flster,
pai lefle noper in pairy [hand] - fe lenth of? ane Elne, 800
Pan lob fai no langer * bot laughtyn owt swerdes,
Apir a brado blysnand brand » bride forth of shethez,
Tewen on heterly - hadof porow malys,
Fele starand stancs * striken of pair helmes, 804
‘Than alexander in iro * hys arme vpp lyftes,
Swith swynnges vp hys swerd & hys swalfe faches,
‘Tho nole of nicholas po kyng * he fm [pe] nck partes,
‘That douft he fel from hys folo *fynyshit for euer, 808
‘us wos bym dostinate pat day * as drigton hym ehapyd,

* written abore the tine in MB,

a

Po. asy

Dublin.] PHILP TARES ANOTIER WIPE. 30

To hynt hym po ouerhand * of hys athell foes

par suche a worship he wan ‘war wonder to telle; 811

fran hod his of fe hye kyng - pe heued from pe ehiulders, — xote pri
‘han pai guve lym xp fo send °& yulien po reaiie, Fama
And alt pat loft wer [0] liue » lordex & other, ae
Comes to pe? comquerour - & on knes fallen,

And on hys mercy & his might * mekely psim puttes. 816

hen pus reuerently * pai rechen hyn a crowne,

Als gome fat hase pe garland - & all fe gree wonne,

bus with po floure in po feld * fonges he is enmy,

And heldes on with « hyndo hoyre * homo to his fader, 820
‘Then fyndes he philip with his flete at a feate hogo

Had weddit hym ano ofer wife + & wauoechyd hys moder j

Ano cleopatras waa callyd +a gratt kyngez doghtor,

And laft {had} olympades * & opynly foreaken. 824

© Fadre,”" quod pis fele child « when ho po feet entred,

“The palme here of my firet pride * I pray fo resauo,

Forth to ps woddyng wilt I wendo * of my wale modro,

And cairo mo to ane oper kyng * to cowpylt hit to wyfe,

For pe to fileon ne to folow * fallex me no more, 29

No hore to dwalle at pi devyse * deynes me no Langer,

Thou makes suche a mangory + & fi mache changes,

And I to counseit ynealiyd “I ean noght heron.” 832
‘With pat par carpes to pe kyng * A knyght at pe table,

Ane leayas, a Lede * & on lowde xpekes :

“Cleopatras a kenaffe child * consaue sall & bere,

‘That destinate ia attir pi day + dewly to rege.” 836

pen Alexander at pis athel - angers vnfhirv,

Wrynnes hym vp a wardrerd - he weld in hys hande, fro 8
So hant hym hitte on pe hede * his hernes owte weltya,

And #0 he lost hase hys lyfe ~ for his lether wordes. 840
‘Than [was] Jo wale kyng wrath * als wonder wer elles,

Brades vp fro pe burde * & a brande clekez,

4 written above the line in MS,

Dublin.) THEY ABE RECONCILED TO RACH OTHER

Ayres toward alexander - & aymes? hym to smyte.

Bot he fayled fe fote * or he first wenes, Sub

He stakez, he stombles * pat stand he ne might,

Bott ay he fonder & falles - as he ferd wer.

‘The ferer forthward [ho fares] * pe faster [ho] anappers ;

What was po cause of fis case pat knawys our Lond. 848

“What now,” quod alexander - “qwatt aylea po to
fale?

Hase fou no forse ne no foto * ne fele to fi acluettt

For off fteke to bo so font * or afrayd oper,

And pou fo gubornare of greco * pat iz a grote wondrel" 832

Thon tittis ho douft in pat tene * po tables ilkon,

Owt of po halle by pe hare * hales he pe birde,

And so po wyo in his wrath + wrekos hys modro,

And philip fally® was soko * & al po fest stroblot, 856
So als byliao als alexander * on angre aslukes,

Ho Jendee on-lofte to pe lon? * a lity dayos aftir,
Cares hym with comforth * pe kyng for to visitt,

Comes hym to po ecortyns * & earper pecs wordex: 860
© Philip," quod pis fele freke + & forswith hym standez,

“ bof? it vnsemely mo itt * pe ao for to callo,

Noght als a sogett’ no pi sonne * my saw T po yeld,

Hot ala a felow or a frend + falles to an-other. 864
Sir, Iat Ji wruthes alt wende * & with pi wyte saghtyH,
And po lowe of sir lysyas lity fou charge.

T dyad bot my deuer + to drepe hym, me thynke, 867
For it awght hym nogt so opynly - sike cxsynges to mako,
And vnworthly pou wroght - & pat fou wele knawys,
When pou was bowne with o brande * my body to shende,”

‘Thon rewya hym fo riche kyng'* of hys ynrode werkes,
Pilisshea yp to po bene * & bristes owt to wepe, 872
‘Than ayres bym on sir alexander * to hys awne modro 5

+ MS, aynon, = MS, OF

Dublin.J ALEXANDEN RUYUSES TRINUTR.
Boys noght aglopned, gude Dame * ne grened to my fadro,

43

Ak if pou have synned hym byayste ale pou piseluen says, tra sa

barfore no gome may po gylt * for it is goddes wille,”" 876
With pat fongee ir pis freke *& to philip ledes,

And he opynly hie kyssitt * & condes with hie fire,

us [he anes] with olimphados - & pis other woydea,

And leues louely wit hir * alf bys lyue days, 880

Quintus [Passus].
Sone aftir in a sesan * als says mo po wriltes,
Come dryvand from siy dariua » pe digne Emperour,
Hanraldes on hyo harsex - hendly arnyede,
To sir philopp pe fore « to fott pair truage. 88h
Kengex par come = ala po clause teller,
Lightyd douft at po loge = lnftyn par blonkes,
Cairen fourth in-to pe courte * to crmuen pair dett,

Tochett titely pare talo > & tribute hym asked, 688
“3a, ayros ame," quod alexander ~ “agayn to your
kythez,

And says you maister, to me * he make no moo sondes ;
For scth philop had a fresh sonfi - pat fast now en-
cresse[s],+ 891
‘That beys not sufferd, I suppose * no suche to hym jeld.
And says your lord, pe loyuc henne * pat lade hir frist Egec,
Hir body now with baraynte * is barely consumed,
And so is darius of hys dette * dewly deprived ;
And be pis talo, hym telle = no tribute hym fallea.” 896
Than mervalett pou mossyngers « mykyH of hys epeche,
Hys witt & hys wisdom * pai wonderly prasea.
Faire at philip pe fers * pair leue pai fangon,
‘And syne clone from pe courte * eaires to pair landez, 900
To po palass of fe prounde [king] * to perse fai wenden,
And dyd paim to air dariua * pare ho on deso ayttee,
And tald hym howe is traage “iv tyntt att-togedro,
4 The Hnee 800 and 891 are written afler lino $92 in MS,

Dublin.) PAUSANIAS PURSUES PHILIP,

‘Als alox{ander] awne mouth * fuim aH had enformed. 904
pan messyngers to masydofi * come in po meyne qwylo,

To philopp fe fell kyng + & felly hym toldya,

at oF fe orth of ermony * Erelez? & princes,

At suld be sogett to bym-selucn + wald scke hym with
armez, ‘908

And alexander als belive * als athett man euld,

Vaderfonged par pe foght * for philip his fador,

And ayers toward ormony * fat orth to distroy, a1

‘Then waa a man in massidon * pat in fo marcho dwellyd,

A proved prince & a proude * pausana he hoght,

‘A Biggt borne & a bald * in brones to rydo,

po eonne of ono somstes * als eayn me fo texts 916

‘Thin freke of all pe fraunches - of kyng philop haldea,

And was sogett to hym-soluon * & serungo hym awght,

‘Bot gett depoly mony day * desirred he pe whene,

And loaod valappyd with bir Love mony lang wynter, 920

And bo pat cause to po kyng ho kest suche a hate,

pat he desired hys doyde * & dight hym parfore,

AH pe folke of hys affinite « he fresly assembloz, 923

And sekex owt with a hoge some * a-sawte hym to yelde.

‘Whon philip herd of pis faro = grott forly ho thynkes,

Forkex forth with a few folke + & hym in feld motes,

Seys fo multitude so much * of men pat he brynger, 997

Brades toward pe burgh on bys Monk + & hys bak
showy,

pan scrikes shilly all po shalkys? - dr shoter at anys,

And pausana pe prince * vpon a prouude stede
Sprynges forth with a apare « & spedes hym after,
And porow po bake {n-to po hrost * hym berez to pe erth, 932
1 The MS. Aas & baron aster Ereles, but crossed through and
erynneted,
* all fe ta repeated here, bet expuncted in ES,

(et. 6)

‘Agra hin te alegt of hya® rapionce ~
And clene a-condis to his carpe * ki

Deblin.] ALEXANDER PERSUADES Tite TO FIGHT.
And whilk of aH my athel men * any armour wantes, 996

‘Bot paseo into my palasso « & plates hym delyver,

And he pat of hys awne have * harnes hym swith,

And mako bym bowno euerylke borne ' to bateH to wend.”

pon anaword hym with a yoyco * ali hye prouudo princex

And Ereles of hys Empire + pat wer in olde stryken, 1001

‘Hatels! of hogh age * & aucmcot, knyghteg,

Barons dé bacholers * pat bresyd wer in armys :

“ Sir, wo hone furen in-to feld* = & ben in feld® prevett

‘With sir philip your fador > many fele wyntr, 1005

And now ys falez alt our force - & owr flecho wakons ;

For be pe floure never #0 freshe ~ it fades at pe laste.

‘Sir, alt fe ores of owr youth * bene zare syne passyd, 1008

And we fortraveld & for-tyred - pat now owr topp horez,

Alf to hevy to be hold * with ony bers wedes,

Or ony awnteres of armes * to any mors euffre.

Forpi, lorde, with your love * we loughly besekes, 1012

‘We may noght stands you in stede - our strenthes er to
feble.

‘Lat wale you other weriowrs * pat wight or & yonge,

Sike as styille er in stowre « strakez to dele."

“Nay, by my Corone,” quod po kyng * “my covetyng is
helder 1016

‘The sadnese of suche mon * pon swyftnes of childer ;

For barnes in pair bignes * pat beldez paim to mekyH,

‘Olt with ynpro[ucd]oce? in preso* * passen owt of line ;

Foe-fi ousrsight of ald mefi®-Ianely me chose; 1020

‘By Connyng' & consol * pai kythen ay par Workes.”"

So Jo aloght of bya aapionco * pai pelcouthly prasoa,

And clone acordos to hys carpyng? - knyghtoz & othro.*

‘Than dose hym furth po derfe kyngt + a lity#t days aftir,

Alexander with ano ost « of mony atholt dukez, 1025

| Se in MS. * MB. rey feld, ? MS, enprones,
* M3, prwrese, fo press, MR, almen,
* MS, othree,
“3

St

(ol Tad

Dublin] ‘WH CONQUERS REROTE AND AFRICA.

Sampnez ane vnsena somo * to sayle ho begynnez

‘Ours in-to Tale * pe ylez to distroy.

In-to pe cost of calydon * he commez on first, 1028

And par a cyto assalez ~ and in a soge lenges.

Bot wies wightly with-in pe wallez ascendyn,

Freshly defendyng! of - & forsly witi-stondyn.

“Yho calodons,” quod fo kyng * and [calles] from with
onto, 1033

“Ovther mache yow manly? parto or maynly dyez,

Anil foglt fast with jouer fues « to yhe faye worthen,

Or yeves zarely vp po zerd - and gefes me vp po ite,”

So chaunces it pat cheftan - or he achevet pine, 1036

‘That fele he britens of pa bernex ‘ & fo burgh wynnez.

pon carez owt of calidofi » when he it coneryd hadde,

‘Owre po ylez of ytale - & pa ylez entrees.

And pai wer redlos of-ragthe? * of pis kengez commyng,

Prayod hym all for po pease * & prevout hym faire, 1041

Sexty thousand hym sondee * of ackyr beaander,

Of clero gold of pair kystez « and corownez a hundreth.

‘Tharo tuko he tribute pat tymo * na po text rocordez, 1044

‘Owt onon into fo occident’ * of alt pat par dwollyd,

OF fe whilke po erth « of Emony is callyd,

And amez lym toward aufrike » & att at easo Teves,

‘Than raught he from pe regions « & rowmyd hys oste, 1048

Cachez into another kyth + & crosex ouer po stremez,

Ayrez hym into aufrik * with mony athell princez,

‘An-othor wynge of po werld + wynnes it belyue,

pat syde sodanly & gone pat sire hym achevy, 1052

For par ho fand ott fow * to fersly hym wit/stonde,

‘No rydors in pat regions * ne rebellez bot lity ;

And he paim laught all pe lighter * as was les wondro,

pen cafrez he fro pos cuntrees * & kerues ouer po
eireraca, 1056

Forth to francides he fared * suchs a ferme yle,

+ MS, snaly, corrected dy later hand to mualy.
* So in MS. ‘MSS. corrupt,

Dublin.) ‘Me SEES BERAPIS-IX A DREAM. 55

Sekes pur to a eynngoge « hymeolfo & bys princer,
Amone por awno god * pat foi adour mighten,

And so to bys tempyl to-teght’ + all with bys tried Ervles,
‘Than met faim in myd way ~ wan mervale toes, 1061
Ano hort with « boge heued * pe aughfulest on erth,

‘Woe to behald as a harrow * forvheld ouer with tyniter 5
And fon Comandoz faim po kyng * konoly to shote, 1064
‘Bot pur waa no inan eo nemyH * pat hym hit couth.
“Al euett hale!" quod aloxender « & an arow byntes,

Drogh, and at pe frist draught -hym drepyd for euer.

Fro pino fan ynto pis day * pan is pat flke place, 1068

‘The stede por pis styffe man * striker pie hort),

‘Sogittarius for soth * men seggefl st to name,

And wilt do for fat ike doyd - ay to po werld lastes,

‘Than ayrez hym on sir alexander * to pe amonez templo,

‘Offers to hys awne god « & honours hym faire, 1073

Gyifer hym garsonst of gold + and other gude stanoz,

An held hestor hym to hete - heterly bosokex,

‘Than passid be pina with hys princez- to siche a place
wontles, 1076

Chaipho rosey wo rede - pe romanys it tollex ;

Anil parin fyndex po freke « fyfene burges,

Anil glydand to pe groit see * twelfe grot water.

OM itke belde, mays pe buke ~ barred was pe gates, 1080

Stoken ntyfly withowte - with barrez of yren,

Thare lenges Fe lone kynge - & loges alt an eveti,

And sacrified par eft-sones - to mony sero goddex,

‘The came nyght in hye slepe + serapys appered, 1084

An-othor of hys grott goddes “4 in a grymme forme,

Glede in a cloth » of castanez colour,

Anil sylos enon to hym-solfo - & sayd hym pees wordez ;

Al aloxander, ateH* kyngo” * and asperly spekys,

And toward a myghty mountane * bym myntyd with hys
Aynger, 1089

| MS. garfons, 1 Ss in MB,

|

Vido fe drost of pi days * & pi

be modi kyng on pe morno * alt mo
‘bo mast parti of his princes »: of }

ert hte eh

Eis

aon ete

¥ Innerted at the oni
* MR. And pais but hui is better

Dublin} He MEETS WITH A STOUT RESISTANCE. o1

‘What of o ping, whatt of opir * ofte hya oate plenys,
For welo trowde fai pan - nono to wynne to po cite, 1143
At was eo otiffe & so strong: - & so ntalworthly wroght,
Ani o hydualy hye + pat was A grett wondre,

‘Tyldot fall of torrottes * & towrez of defencez,

Bateld & britagett « abowt as a cactell. 1152
‘Tho wawes of pe wilde see * ypon pe walle betys,

‘The pure populand perle - passyd it vinbo,

‘Tt was enforsedd so wols * with flodez & other, 1158
par somel neuer sege vnder pe son * hy sawte it to wynne.
‘Than otellez hym nir alexander * & als belyue makes
Besyde po cite in pe eee * to sett vp a loge,

A hye tyldo as a towre > tyldet of shippes,

Dat might no navy for pat note ~ negh to po haven. 1160
‘When he pis bustelt had byggyd - nere pe burgh walles,
And tight hym as tyme was ' pe burgh to assaylle,
Sach mischofe in po meynne tyme - yppon pe men fallez,
‘For moger & for metelesse - wer mervell to tele. = 1164
‘Thare wer princes in plite * to perische for cuer,

AH in dowte to [be] dede * dukez & Ercles,

Jn fere to bo famyahyd * mony ferve knyghter,

For par is [na] wa in world » to fo wod hunger, 1168
‘Than rewys hym pe prouude kyng * po pyte of hya mes,
And sendys forth sendesmen + with eclott leffres, (a0)
To Terusalem to Iawdes * pat po Towes tochos, Rpiatolas
ut of put burgh wna byshop brevyd in po dayes; 1172
‘He monyshytt hym ns a minister « hym manly to acnde
Frosh folk for pe fight * & fode for pe folke,

And alt pair truage * tyte to hym wayfe,

That ho to Darius of dew *was dangert to pay. 1176
And sit command he pis clorke * po kyng in hys writtes,
For any riches ho redee * rather to cheso

‘The mayntenaunce of massidons * & of po mony grekez,

Dublin} rum “yonay or captns,” 63

ben pain of perse to pay ~ or to please owder. 1180
‘Tlun takex pe Bishop fo breus ~ & to chawmbre bownes,
Ressaves ib with reverence * & redes it ouer,

Gase hym downe be degrece * ayayn to pe sale,

Swythly to pe awyors - de faim po sware zeldez: 1186
Sirres, ayres agayn to alexander - & all pus hym tellys, xptetota.
‘That me was done mony day * deply to swere,

Neuer perse to pare "no passe with none armnez

Tn damagyng of darius - endurand hys lyue.’” 1188
‘When po wale kyng wist ~ ho wex wode wroth,
“Now by god,” quod po gromo * “pat galt me on

orth,
T salt scche Iewres on fe Towes * enya! or I dyo,
SaH kenne whoys commaundement * pat pain to kopo
‘fallen 11vs
3it for no torfor pat bo tyde * tyre wald ho noght lous,
Bot ehesez hym owt a chiftano « & chargez hym belyuo,
A mody man, sir meliager, ‘a maister of hys oste,
‘To founde forth with a flote of fyfo hundroth knyghte: ;

And iniones hym to Toraphatt - hys Tornay to make, 1197
And al fo pastowrs & po playnos « prestly to? dryvo,
Bot bring im all pes bestes - baren & other,

Dat he might wee in ony ayde * pe cite of Gader, 1200
‘Than mefes on sire Meliager - pis mightful prince

Wyth s soume of ayker men + & sampson paim Indes,
A renke pat in pa regions * had rydyn oft sythez,
And knew po costes & po kythez * clone alt-to-geder, 1204
Jpus hyod pai forth egerly ~ & entird po wale,

And suche a pray puim preved * als pyne wer to reken,
Bringes forth, als says pe buk * bestes owt of nowmbre, (va. my
And trotters on toward tyre» with joy at pair hertes, 1208
Bot or pai motyn hed a myle > pe mera with-out,?

* read enioine. * MB, de,
2 MS, wore out,

(fo.ns3 When ho was drepid & dede +: i
fe prekars of pe pasto of
Ait pe folke of his affinite - at fr
fat outhire foto had or fole « to po fli
Melmaee trate pus Moliager with his mefi
minatios For po fairore of par faos * &
= Raschis with rothoro + & 1y
Sete potaenyapn occ
pare was a maistor of po marches:
Putting anicks Ano Boritinus, a borne * as
Come girdand out of Gadirs

Dubdliny MELEAGER RECOVERS THE CATTLE, 6s
par meter aime a micho fulke * po malster of po
playnes,

Tho duke of pe drafos - & of fo derfo fellys,
‘One teosellias a talke - pat tenyd aim vnfairo. BEE]
‘He gindes in with a gyh - grathed in playthes,
AB to-brountes pes bernes -& wykyily pairs woundes,
Felles mony foy at a frush « fast to po grande,
And mony renke pat he ouer-rade * maze neuer aftir, 1216
‘Than wes air melinger amored - & manly debates,
Fiyngez forth on a fole * with a felo spore,
Anil bese mony grott eyro + porow thike males, 1219
AH fo bernes at [a] brayde * whileo hie broth lastez,
And sampson on ane othor syde * setter on belyuc,
Brashes forth on a blonke - brathly he smyter,
Botes on with a brando * for brokyn was hys lance,
‘Howes doud on pe herdez + & hurtez paim vnfaire, 1294
‘Then arestea, an athoR man * &! ay elike feghtee,
Sparres forth with a sper * & spedes hys mightez,
‘Mony bald or ho blan * broght owt of lyfe. 1298
‘Than Canlaa, an other knyght «on a ked stede,
On thoosellua in twa * hys tenbre he brekys ;
And fon he dry ffs to po duke - als tellys me fe toxte,
Bot with a swyng of a swenle * swappez of hys heued.
‘When he was drepyd pus & dede * & po drawes jomyil,
De prekers of pe pasturs * & of pe prouud Landes,
‘AW po folk of hys affinite « pat frvhsse? wer vnwoundet,
at other fote hed or fole ~ to pe fly3t foundex, 1236
‘Thos melioger with hys mefi fe menske par acheuett,
Follyd pe feirare* of par foes and po feld wonnez 4;
And rachen with pair route * & ryden bott a while,
‘Bot par neghyd faim ane oper note - als new as before ;
ar was a maister of po marche * pe myghticet of other
‘One beritinus, a berne * ala po buke tellea, 1243
‘Come girdand furth of gadera - owt of po grete cyte,
4 Better omitted, * Sic, * MS, feivhare, © Kem? woun,
ALEXAD DER. r

—_ x

pat all in fore was in fourme:
to pani aires him forth Arestes :
smn ‘To Alexander onone *

Dublin) ‘RAWED BY ALEXANDER AGAINST TYRE

‘The morte of aH po masydona * & of po mony grekez,
Rekens ym fe resons pat ruth was to here. 1280
‘With pat Je oomle kynge - chakez hyx bernes,
Semblett Hym A Hoge soume * & fro pe seige wendys,
Tho tonre of tyre & pe towne * titely he levys,

Anil ioynes hym to Tosaphatt - full ioyles to ryde, 1284
* Ay ho gretes as he goys » po graft of hys knyghtez,

Ay he plenys as he passe * po pite of hys Ercles,

Ay ho wepys as he wendcs * for hys wale princes,

And souerandly for sampaofi « he porows oucrilyke, 1288
‘Whon he was tumnyd froward tyro * toward po wale,
‘Tho work st he wroght had « fe water within,

Pat he hed sett in po ace * po cite withowto,

‘Thare-in he lath hed a LityH! = [pe] loge for to kepe, 1202
Bott pon sir balann, a borne - pat in po burgh lenged,
One of fe tiraundez of tire * atired hym belyuo,
Baskes hym in brenes * with big men of arms,

With trawynns & trebgetes * = po towre to agsaylle, 1296
‘Ho bekees owt at pe beld * oner po brade wallo,

And pai within? pe werk © wightly defenden,

Shots sharply bytwene = swappyn owt dartox 5

Werrs wondrely wels * warpyn owl! stances, 1300
Bot balaan in pe britage * 20 bitterly feghter,

All tocombers paim clene * with cast of engynes.

Sons pe toppe of pe toure - he typys in po water,

And all po tulkes in pe teld he termys pe lyve; 1304
‘Than in bargez & in botez - ho bownes hym swyth,

To fe bothom of po basteH - he buskez hym withowte,
Bretons downe alt po beldo * & po bornes whelles,
Dronchos hir in fo depe * & dmtvos bir on hepya, 1308
Whon it was emytyn so in smal * within po emert wawes,
Ako gobett fro oper * glyder fast pair way.

‘Thus pis stronth ilke stoke « in a stound wastyd,

' Resd tots, —* MS. trelgeter. * MS, withowt within,

“MS, gydea, corr, fo glyiles,

(ro.

Dublin} Hf BUILDS NEW SIBOR-WORKS.
‘Than murnes att po masidone * & felly wor trublett,

And alexander was also + awgerdly grevydo,
So wer pai turblett of pe towne + qwen pai par till

mymyd,
‘That of po takyng oft tire * tristed pai no Tenger. 1344
And so hym-selfe in hys slopo * pe same nyght after,
‘Hym toght" he bad in hys hand * a held of a wyno,
A growen grope of a gripe * a grett & a rype, 1347
be whilke ho flonge of po flonte - & with hys fete

i
And when ho brokyn hed po bory * als pu bers semys,
Ber flowe owt of freeh wynne * flodez enowe ;
So largly & eo dolavy * of liquor hym thynkez,
Of ape maysyn to ryt * pat was a grot wondro. 1352
pe kynge callex a clerke * kenely on po morne,
Als radly az ower ho rose * to rachon hym hys ewovys.
“ Sir, bape dred neuer a delo” * pe devinour hym snydo,
“T vndertake it on my trewth * tyre is pinawne; 1396
For pe bery pat pou brake = pat ia pe burgh euch,
‘That shat be waxy po ful sone * & to pi-acluen zolden,
For pon salt eft in ornest * enter po wales,
And felt hir ynder fate - within a few days.” 1360
Now Compas kenely pu kyng * & castes in hys mynd
How he couth in ony caso como to po cyte,
Devynee deply on days * dropes mony willes,
IE he couht soke ony sleght * pat hym serue wald; 1364
And makes to sett in pe sco * right in po same place,
pair os fo tild pat be bild - bigget was frist,
‘To stabil yp n stronth * alt of atore achippes,
Hogor by pe halfo dele - & hycr pon pat oper; 1368
And pat he foghya & formes * #0 fast! to po walt,
So nogh pat ynneth a nedyH + myght narowly bytwane,
And band his, as po boke says * bigly to-geder,

¥ Sic ie MS.

(Potty

‘Dublin. HE PRRVORMS WONDERS,

‘Lest sho flochett or faylott « with fyfe score ankers, 1372
‘When he hod tight vp pls trame + & pis told roryd,

Tt hed of bradnes aboue * to breus owt of mosour;
And to liedo by hoge ping » hegher it semyd

‘Than was [Fe walles], az pe writte eays * of po wale tourez,
Dan alexeender alt [his anc} *a-nono ho ascondes, = 1377
Closed att in clere stele * & in clone plates,

And monyshit iche moderson + manly & swythe,

at alt bo bowne at « bride " po burght to asayla 1380
AH po hoste? euen ouer - opynly he eomandes

Surly al to be armed * and redy to fight’;

Ard when pat fai seo pat bym-selfo ” pe cite was entird,
‘Wynnen vpp vppo fe walle * ilke wy hym alter, 1384
Now tynkyH vp labumes ~ pat all fe towne ringes,
Sterne stevyn vpon stroke * straked trompettes,

Blew bemes of brace * beenes assembled,

‘Sought to on ilk syde * & a sunte jeldyn, 1388
‘To prose to wit paves * a people withowte 5

Archors with arowes » of atter enuenmonyd?

Shoton vp sharply ~ at salkez on po wallez,

Lashe at paim omlofte «in mony lowd showte, 1392
And pot sopely ayayn = joldyn faim swythe,

Bekeryng forth of fe burgh - bald men many,

‘Konely pai kopo * with castyng of stanca,

Dryves darter at owr dukes * deply paim wounden. 1396
‘Than passyd vp of princes * pristly enarmod,

Into fe baste abowne * bremoly ascendof,

Some with launcez on-lofte * & some with long swordes,
With ax & with awblester * & alken wapens, 1400
And alexander ay elik * awgently feghtez,

‘Now a shafte, now a shelde, ‘now a swerde hentez,
Now a sparth, now a spere 4 aped so hys mightez,
Dat it wald ter ony tong * hys tournays to reken. 1404

+ Bettor ova. * Sto. * Read enucnomyd.

(Pot, 0)

Dublin ALEXANDER APPROACHES JERUSALEM.

And who so kederys couth Inche «os fe line wittnes,

Wald gett pair bald with pair hand ¢ & on-lotte wynno.

So frist wor paso other folke = put foghtan within, 1441

‘Fro? balaan pair bald duke + pat broght was of liue,

pat alt Sailer paim pe fores - & wo ford worthen,

pat nowdor with stalls no with stano - witistode pai no
Tanger, | M44

Sir alexander with poca athellys + & with hyw awne

Tho toure of tire pus he take * and other {j burghez,
In fo whilko pa sariens of pix ayre “so many sorowys

hadidyn 5
Ait wald bot tary owr tale + paire turment to reken. 1448 far

Sono als pis cite was sesyd - slayne vp & olden,

pan rides forth pe riche kyng - & removes po hoste,
Gase forth to gaza ~ ane othe grete cite,

And he settes on a sawte * and seses it beline 1452
And when pis gaz was gottyn ~ he grathes hym swyth,
And ioynes hym toward Tervsalom * po Tewes to distroy ;
And 3e pat kepys of pis carpyng * to hore any forrer,
Sono sal [ neuen pou po note * pat now is next after

Septimus passus.
Als hastely as pai herd of - in haly cite, 1457
And Bodword to fe bischop - was broght of bys come,
For alexander aw * almost he dyes, 1459

And for he hed nekyd hym with nay - in a new tyme.

‘And now be penkez in his thought - he turht® noght haus
cated

Tn alt hys mante mister * made he hym faylez,"

Whar hie for socoutr to pe cite * send hym hys lettre ;

And he sowed hym by pis case + put nowe hym for
thynkez, M64

* Read For, * Read thurt, * Revd vad he fe man fayled.

any | sis madly 0 pon rioe =
Prins Seer ier

‘MS i uttered |
. rie fa)

Doblin.} AN ANGEL APrEAie TO THE DieHor. 81

“Bor me hed lover,” quod pe Indo + “bene letherly pru.s03
forsworne

On ali po halyiloms us opyn are to nevyn,

‘Than onys have greved pis gous + or groched with hys
erawl f 1467

prt ever I warned hym bys wille * wa is me bestound !"

‘Thuas was Tawies of ioy - & iolyte depreaett’ ;

And afi ps Lewes of Lerusulem ~ he iontly assemblez,

‘And!, “alexonder is at hand + & wille vs alt combred,?

Avil we ex viterly vodone » bot dryghton va sbelda" 1472

‘Than bidiles po bischop ait pe burgh * bornos & oper,

Athelies ofall age - bath eller & yonger,

Comand icho ereatare * & eryed porow pe siretes,

Til thre days on a thraw - wer threpelytt to-geder, 1476

And ike froke & eusry faunt * to fast & to pray,

‘To ccenpy in pair orisons * & offers* in po temple,

Ani calle vp with kone cry * vnto po kyng! of heuen,

Anil kepo paim with pis conquerour - ho comber paim
neuer, 1480

‘Thai soght to pir sinnzoge * all pe cite oucr;

che bedy 10 pair Bostes * nt in po burgh lendes

Patten paisa to prayers + & pennance indurott,

po venganee of pis vietor * to voyde if pai mig, 1484

‘The thred nyght after pis note * aa nouon me fo toxt,

Whion al! po cite was slepe - & sucrifee endytt, aypastoio

In ane habett of fe ayre * an angelt apperos fete

‘To Taudes of Terusclem * and hym with joy grotay; 1489 salitana,

*T brynge po bodwwande of [blis} - air bischop,” he saya,

# With mlatez of solace + am sendl fro po trone,

‘Fro po hye maister of mageste « & pat mightfull fades,

A bydder po noght be sbaysed * ho hase pi bono herd ;

And Tamonosh pe to-morne * als me was amoved, 1193

pat pou als mty as pou rysea » aray all pi cite,

‘The streter & alt stedes - stoutly & fhiro,
* Read Baik. * Reed combre, — * Rend offer.

Dublin] rae sews xeceive aueraxoen wrrm moxovr,

pat it be honest alt ouer - & opyn vp pe jates, 1406

Lett pea pi peple euerilke polls * aparneld ! be clens,

And a maner of men - in milke-whitte clathoz,

Bott passe, pon & Ji prister » d& predator of bo tomple,

Reaest at on rawe * as your rewlo aakez, 1500

And when pis conqnerour comez * cares hym agayns ;

For he must ryde & reyne * onor alt pe brede of fo werlds,

And be Len? of ilko ledo + nto hys last dayos,

And pen bo dight vnto }edoth * of drightoncs ayre,” 1604

Sono fe dyrko ouerdrafe * & po day springer,

Oare Bishop bownes hym of bede + & buskes hyn wedes,

Aad peu fat Tow of all Lowes * in goneratt bo clopya,

Says faim hyx visiotl « & as fo voyco biddos ; 1508

‘Than eoansellys hym pe Clengo - clene alt-to-geder,

And all po oety be assent * sarinuntez & other,

To Lowno liym forth with aff po burgh + & buske hym
beling,

As hym was sayd in hya slope * pia sourrand to mote,

‘Than rynnos forth in n rese * arayoa alt po oyto, 1513

Spredes ousr with bawdkens « alt pe brode otretes,

With richo clothoz of tatfata + qwor ho trede auld,

For fe erth to siche ane emperour * wor aH to feblo, 1516

He plyea oner po payment * pallen wobbes,

‘Makez on hight ouer po haued * for hot? of pe 808,

Silours of sendale - to syle ouer po gutez, 1519

Axd sampnez paime on aber [side] * with aylkyn rapez,

And pan he eachez vp on coniex - als curtaynez it wor,

Enon ale pe esynges zode - ouer be po costes,

AH pe walles withowte * in webbez of Inde,

Of bright blysnand blew + browden with eternen 1524

‘Thus attyred he pis toune * & titely par-after

Ofitko way wide hopyn * warpyd he po zatez ;

Att wh so wates fro withowte « & within hedes,

Te eemyd a to se to © on of pe seuen heuens. 1528

* MS, aparnorld ; see 1, 1582,
* The t ia written above the line,

(Pol.14]

Dublin.J = tue crrizews Ane neresep rx ware

‘Now passes pis prelate * with prvater of po tomplo,
‘Rouost fully rially * & with rycho wodes,
First ane habetv ynder aH as Tam enformed.
Fa of bindes & of heater * of byse & of purpurm; 1952
And pat was garnoshod full gay > with gold skirtez,
Store starand stance * strenklett all oner,
Sawdett with esphirex * and oper sere gemmys,
And pouuderet vith perro * was purer par? oper, 1536
‘Bot syne he kest on a Cape * of castans hewe,
‘With riche rybans of gold » mythely pe hem,
A vestare of vyce * of vyolct flourez,
‘Wroght falt [of] wodwose - & oper wyllo bestes; 1510
And fen he heghtlet on hys houed * a hogo fair myter,
Was forgott olf (of) fyne gold - & frott full of perles,
Stight staffull of stancs + pat straughton owt bemes,
Als if wer themerand shaftez * shot! fro pe sof. 1544
Deetowrs & deuynours « & oper dero maistres,
Tustos of Towry * & Iowes of fo lawo,
‘Weer tyret¥’ afl in tonacles * of tartare webbys ;
And Jai wer brightfalt of bleoz «aH fe body over, 1548
And oper clerkez & colettor * at to pe kirko longon,
‘Wer aH eampnon in a gott * with eurples of reynes,
‘That suche a sight, I supposo * was noney sono aftir,
So parseld a procession + ane persof agayns. 1952
Now bownes farth po bischop * at po trode jates,
‘With pristes & with prelatez a pako owt of nawmbro;
And alt pe cite of sorte * xylex hym after,
Whirres forth aP in white - of qualite of angela; 1856
‘Marchaundeg, maister mair + mynister and oper,
Worthy wodous and wifes - & whenches of po vite ;
Be ilke a barne in pe burgh * a blanght is hys weder
Als any snappand snaw ~ pat in pe snape lightes, — 1560
Than pasys fe procession - a peple beforne,
‘Of childer all in chalke white * chosyn a hundrsth,
With bellys & with banners? - d& blesnnd torohes,

* Read fan, = MB, barners,

Tol M0)

twaazoy And as ho waytis

Dublin} ALEXANvER BOWR poWN TO THE RIXHOr,

Instrumontes de yraages + wititin of bo temple ; 1504
‘Som with consoura & som! + with syluer chynes,
Whar-of pe roke of aromatyke + rso to po wolkefi ;
And of pe sanctuary * mony sere pingez,

With tabola & tapers * & tretee of po law 5 15968
‘Som boletors of burnett * enbrowden with perlo,

Bore byfore po bishop * bys boke on to lig;

Som eindolatyke of clone gold * & of good syluor,
With rolikkes fully tially « pe richest of po werld. 1572
‘Thus noses all pis somblo > po cito withowte,

‘Vato a stonon stode - strezt on po temple,

Scopulias, be some akely - po scriptur it calles,

And per pe come of pe kyng * pis Coucnt abydez, 1576
Sone? Alexander with an hoste * of many atholt daker,
Come prekand to po palace * with princes & Erelex,
Sangh suche a multitude of men - [in] mylke-white wedes,
And ilke a sege ina sote * pat selly hym thynker, 1580
‘Than fyndez he ina nother flote - of fanons & stales,
Practyf mon in prevatex - & prestez of pe lawo,

Of Dialeticns and deere * doctours of ather,

Thath chamerlayn® & chapolayn * in chalke-white wedes.
And als ho wates in a wry * pon was he war sono 1585
Off pe maisler of pat meynge * in-myddez of fe peple,
‘That was pe bald bischop * abowne ali po Tewes,

‘Was grathed in a garment ~ of gold & of siluer. 1588
Than he heldes vp on begh * beheld on hys myter,
Before he se of fyne gold * forgett a playte,

An far-on grauon on po grothest + of att godez namez,
‘This tithe, totragramaton * for 90 po text witinomse, 1592
With Fat Comand po kynge * hye knyghtez all,

Bath barouna & bachelor * bald mon of armoz,

Xo ner po place [to aproche] - vpon payn of pair Iyfes,
Bot a¥ to hald paim byhynde * po Losec & fo more, 1896
‘Than ayres he forth alt hym one « to pis athelt meynjo,

* MB. so, alt, to set; but read sm som,
* MS. Some, 2 MS. chamerniayn.

[rot 15)

Dublin] «—«—-ALEKANDRR KNEXLS TO THR GREAT GoD. )
Bowes hym downe of hys blonke * pe bischopji before,

Kneland on ! po cald erth + & knokes on hye brieto,

And bersouns pat haly mame * pat ho byheld written.

pan all fo Towes of lornmalam * Justice & oper, 1601 Proeiede

Lonise & Indes « bo po lity sotter, (codrum aped
Anclines faim to pis conquerour * & hym on knoes grote, canes
Kest vp a kone crye - & carpyd poos wordea: 1601

“ Ay mott he leas, ay mot he leue" * quod ilke » lode
tyes,

Mlexander, po athelfallost’ * hayr ender heven, 1606

Ay mot he leuo, ay mott he leve * pit lego Emperowr,

The welder of a pe werld * & worthiest vnder wylde,

Ay mott he lene,” quod pe Land + [lowde all) at anes,

Onereommer clene of ike costa * & ouercommyn neuer,
‘The geostest’ & po glories ~ pat euer god formed,

‘Exot or ony Emperour * or erthlich prince 1” 1612
pan Wer pair common whit hym kyngex ‘als po clause telles, (Yo 54)
Sengours owt of Surry » wor to hym-selue zoblen,

Anil pal amervalo paime mokylt - as menya me pe wriltes,
When pai taw hy so beret’ * & heldyn it nwondre, 1615
‘Than Permeos, a proude kny3t * 4 prince of hys hoste,
Apres to sir alexander * and askys hyin swith,

Son hym adourot all moft - alder & yonger,

Why he oboyd & bowed 40 * to po bischop of Iewest
“Nay,” quod po comly kyng® + & pe kny3t awerez, 1¢21
© Noper haylaod I hym * no heldit hym noper,

Bod it was god at I geet * fo goucrnour of all,

Of whome in po habett & po mrmez * he was al clethyd.
For in po marche of masydofi + me menys on a tyme,
Suche a sogh in my elepe * me eodenly apperod, 1626
Enon in suche a sembland * & in po game wedes,

For all pis werld ns pis wy * wondos now attyred. 1628

' MS. of, * MS. koyge.

Dublin.) OTHE FROFIEoY OF DANIEL.
And pan 1 musyd in my mynde* how pat I might wynne,

Apo oper angle of fe orth * pat aay wo eallo,
And he me thrott to be tra® + 4 for no thyng turne,

‘Hoot tyre me titely parto + & triatly to wend, 1633
And syne saw [no segh * pat so was atirod ; 1633
And he? hoppyd po holder pat pis was he * at he? saw

pea, 1633"
For sekerly he semys so * to se witiowte, 1634

‘Tho? same god pat in my slepe ~ T aawe in po days;

Aud tow I hope, porow help - of fe hye fudre, 1036

‘On whom pe holy name is jond * on hye written,

To do with Darius, or I dye - how I some dere thynke,

And pe pride of alt pe persens ~ purely distroy.

Biot site T sothly suppose * qwat so my saule pinkez, 1640

‘That aall be-fulle yppon falde * alyke Glance T havc

In fe gtace of po grett god - pat gydex nll sternes,

‘That it eal in my will be * & in no ways fuille.”

Now takys pis Bishop po berno * & to bungh ledes, 1644

With sange & solempnite - with hym to cite wendes,

‘Me was rosaned, as I rode * with reuervice & Loy,

AAs he wer duke of icho dochro > & druvyn owt of
heved,

pan gays ho forth with hye gyng * to goddes awne tomplo,

‘That of sir salamon po sye * sott was d& fondys, 1649

Anil pur lie lighter of par laro + & als po lawo wald;

‘He offors in pat oratory * & honours owt Lode.

Ani Tandea of Teruntlem * po Tewes fadir, 1652

Bringes forth a braite buke * & to pe berne rochos,

‘Was plantyd full of prophocyes * playnly alt ouer,

Of fe doctryne of daniel - & of hys dors sawes,

(ra 10)

‘The lode lokys on a lefe + & in a lyno fyndes 1656. propheca

How pat pe gomez owt of groce * suld with pair grett mightez

' Read thea, * Read 1; twice.
* MS, Thame.

gaa he hne ue

Dublin] ‘HE GRANTS THE BISHOP A BOON,

‘The peple owt of perse - purely distroy ;

And [pat] he hopys suld be he « & heterly he ioyes.
‘Than he partes to pe prelates * mony prounde gyftes, 1660
‘Was no #o pure in pe place * bot he hys purse fillee,
Gytez paim gariaona of gold « & of god stancs,

Riche giftez cnogh - bath rubies & perelox,

‘Besaundez to fo bischopp * he badde owt of nowmbre,
Roches bya of redo gold rauneons mony, 1665
‘Takez hym to hys tresory * talentes hym showya,

‘Bade hym wale qwat he waldo & wyld ym pace oper.
Zit biddex hym po bald kyng * als po boke tellez; 1668
Sir, qwat pou will in pis werld - to weld or to hane,
Nojt dot sake at alexander * any thyng of reson,

And I all grrunte, or I gay - with a goode wille.”
Than bowes downe our bischop * & hym a bone askez,

“ Sir, pis I depely desirre + durst T it neuen, 1673
pat ye wald latte va oure Inre » & owre lawez vse,

Als owr faters hase followed * forewith pix tyme ;

And of your grett goodnesse - if 36 pis graunte wald 1676
To latt vs sitte & bo safe * bot for pis seuen wynter,
‘Withowte tribute or triage - whils pe terme lastes,

pen wer we halden alt pe hepe * to pry for you for euer.
And ;itt I wille, be your lene * a worde & no mom, 1680
pat pe men of mede * may, be your lene,

Tenge al in your lawe « lely to-geder,

And pai of babiloa bath = pan bid I none othre.”

‘Quod alexander als belyuc * “alt pis I graunt, 1684
And ellys ony oper thyng * aske & be serued."
“Nay, nowe no more,” quod pia mafi* & mokely hym

thankez, ,
“Bot your lordship and youre loue * whille my lyve laste,”
Now kyst hym pis conquerour * to caro feo po cite, 1688
And mado to bydo in fo burgh * a borne of hir awno,

A measynger to moyn on * qwat' men of hym sayd,
* Read our,

[Fo aa

Dublin] “rt Mex ake ONLY THIEVES.” cd

Octarus passus.

Syr Dere Darius on dese « fe digne Emperour, «1720 Episiota
The kyng withowt comparison * of kyngez all oper, =
Of at londes fe Lont « put Jenes in exthe, (ward
Predecessour of princes * & peir to po Son,

‘The sowsvanc ayro of my sole * pat sittia in myne trone,

Tn fange with my faire god pat Lailye mato, 1725
To Alexander, pat of al + 90 augerdly hym letea,

Oure seget & our siruant! + pus owreelfo writes

For it is wayfed ys to wete * pon hanes wikedly, 1728.
Thrugh onmyte & onuye * Elacion of pride,

Be vanyte & vaynglory * pat in pi vaynos kyndoles,
Puryayd fo plotowrs + oure partea to ryde.

For pon hase sampnod, ols men sayn +a eellich nowmbro
Off wrechex & of wyrlyngex * out of po west nile, 1733
‘Off Indides & of losyngers * & of lityH thefez,

Sicho sary sorowez as pi-velf - to ecko vs nguyns,

And wonys to weld at pi wille * pat worthex full Jate,

‘The prouinee & po principalite * of perso lo graunt, 1737
Bot pou ert fere all to faynte * oure force to withatonde ;
pot? pon hade gederit? alt pe gomez « pat euer god formede,

So, man, ryfo is owr rome * pat fou may wele lokyn

pe sture strenth of owr stoure * to pe sternex of heuen ;
And sike a neker als pi selfs * ane noght of all oper,

Ts bot! a maddyng: to melt - with mare pen Pi-selne.

Fonpi is better vubonde + & af pi brathe leae, 14
For mare menske isa man * to meko hym be tyme,

"Than after made to be meke * mawgre hys chekys,

For aif fo graciouse goddee * © Saat 1748

Prayoez ay fe persens * passyng ali ofer, “W150

4 MS. sourrent siruant; the former word expunctet.
(TMS, 0% * it written abore the lixe, MB, bed,
ALEXANDEM.

Tk wald hym lott, as I leue - po light of pe Son!
For-pi bid I pe tedly * yppou payn of pi eghet,*
Aud on po plight & payn * & perle pat folows,
Alt pi vanyte to voyde - & pi vayn pryde, 1784
And mefe syays to masydon * or ony maro fallo.
For, be fe sale of my siro * bot yf pou sone turne,
I sali send fo suche a sumo * of eezgee cnarmed, «1787
at noght as philip {aunt * pou salt fare with piscluct,
‘Bot a4 « prince reproued * sall be pynyd to dede.”
Als wone as cur hys sondesmen * to pis ayre commyf,
‘Thai prevont' hym playnly - & pat pistilt hym rechys,
And alexancfer ala byline * before bys ate#* princes, 1792
And to po host euen over * it opynly declares.
And when fo knyghtez * of pis clause ynderstondo,
‘Tham wor pai felly* alfrayed * of hys folt sawes ;
And sla sono as bym-selfe 90‘ hys seges ameyved, 1796
In beldyng of hys bachelors * ho breves pecs wordes :
“ What now! my worthy weryours * so wight & #0 noblo,
‘My bernes & my barotours * pe beet vnder houen ;
Lett neuer it bo broght on bmdoe * for vmbmyd of

shame, 1800
‘Yhe douv for po dityny + of darins pistol.
I sett you an ensnumple * yo so it euerilke day,
In thorpus & in mony thede * pare ye porow ryden,*
oo A Oe) ee a! 1804
For yf he bremely bayn ~ ho bitez nouer helder.
Bot in come way, I supposs wele - pat soght is hys ledtre,
Jair as ho tellea which tanne® * of tresour ho hase.
For} vs [bus] to be big > & batele hym zelde, 1808
be grete garison of gold - salt geder vp owr hertes,”
With pat commandez po kyng' * hys knyghter belyfe,
bare Domosmen pat from darius come *with podorfe letérez,
ot pai auld titely paim tako* & be toe nekes, ‘1812
For pair soucrend sake * faim send to po galouse,

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ToL

Dublin] “YOU CALL YOURSELP A CONQUEROR.

pen wer pees messyngem amaced * as mervell wer ellez,

Wit) carfall chore * to pe conquerour pai saydyt ;

Alas! what lnke lyes in vs *loni, be your lefe, 1816

‘Thus causles for owr kyng * encombyed to wortho 1”

“ The sawes of your sousren” * sayd po kyng peti,

Nodes me now to seche notes * as I neuer attelytt,

‘That he base pent to my-eelnen - noght as ho awght’; 1820

Lo! ‘lity thefo’ in icho line + hys lettre mo calles.”

% pin doyngez sir dariua * indited you hym-roluon,

For ho knew noght your knyghthode * ne your kyd
strenthes ; 1824

Neo wist nioght of yowr worthiness & wrote alt pe balder,

Bot go wald grannt vs to go + & gyfo vs owr lyfez,

‘Than eald we bremely your blysse + ynto po berne shove."

an leta pe Loni pain alon * & lathys paim to hys feete,

‘Takes Pain with hym to bys tent: & makox palm at ease.

‘Sono a4 pees eandeamen in sale * wor sott at po table,

© Sir alexander, atelt kyng” * quod alt with a stevyn,

“Comand with vs to care: knyghtes a thowsand, 1832

Ami we sali surely owr gyre * you rend in pair hander.”

“3a, make 3¢ blysse," quod pe kynge * “blyth mote 30

worthe,
For pe lachynge of your Lorde * salt noght’ a lede weynde."
Bot to Darina on pat ofer day * indited he a pisteH, 1896
‘A lettre elenly enclosyt * pat consaued pecs wordes,
“TI, alexander, ayr * & eldoste childe bothe
OF kyng philip pe forne « po fonder of greece,
And als of olimphades * fat honorable Indye, 1810
‘To po, air Darius, on dean * pus dito I my lettre,
pou prince of all persons * pat apperys to po eo,
‘Tho conquerour of ilke costo * callyd of pi-selues,
"With alt pi gracionae goddes * grathed in pitrone, 1844
Alf pos I sond pow to say * vnder my sealle wrytten.
Sir, yf wo se pe sothe * surely mo thyake,

103

(Vol. 18 04

Dublin] =—-REVIEIXG ME, TOU DIsHONOUR YOURSELF,

Our factilter or faite feys - owr fermex & owre golies,
‘We may noght chalynge paim ne clame «ne calle paim our
awne, 1848
‘Bot aif I deme ns dett * vnto a day borowed.
For yif we ryde on pi reme * & on pi ronke settya
Of fo whelo of forton & po wheno - pat whistely chaungez,
Ol[t] passe awe in-to pouerte * fro pllente of godex, 1852
Fro mirtho into murnyng * fro murnyng inte Toy,
For now vs vantes in a whitre* as po whele chaungez ;
‘When we supposye in howreselfe « to.sitte alt-par heldest,
fen fonndes dont dame forton to po flodesotes, 1856
Drawez vp fo dame-bordo * & drenchez vs for ever.
For-fi a wyo fut hase witte * of fe whelo sofro,
Sot eodandly in hys soucrente ' to ectt neron? hys hope
For pride of no prosperite * ne prise at hym folower, 1860
‘To olle ay on hys vnderlinges * for oucrlayke a while,
For ony eeyle vnder heven * a sot I hym haldo,
ut ay hase dene & dispyte * of dedes of lity,
‘Syon oft po ha-loket hor «is heuen to po atornes, 1864
Ana he fut gretheat was of goddos « gird al togeder.
For-fi a depo diskfonor * yhe do to your Name,
Ayo Emperour pat on pis erth «is cuon to yourseluet,
‘To me 20 lity & a0 lawe euch lettres to wayfo, 1868
And presentes owt of perso * bot for a pure hothinge.
For fou inherotas all pis world & euons vato po «ud,
And calles pe kyng of ilke kyth * vnder po capo of heuoh,
And porto sitter as pou mays * in soge as an angel, 1872
To-gedse with pi grott goddea * ane ha

IT knaw [am eorruptible « iat bor ani
Als a dedlich dike + to do my tate ;

# DES. So doys he no sodandly of wiich days he ix autyywncted,
* Se in MS; for wever on, 7 MS. p, vith bt abows the fine,

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Dublin} 1 wiee rece you wnar rae yeayrmiycs weaw." 107°

‘Toot if pou pe vietour availe = no vaunt sall par rise, 1880

‘No lose, bot’ of # lity thef » enlympyd you to combre.

‘Bot chaunee it me, pat Tam childe ~ fe chener to worth,

So pat if bo! gefyn me po gro” greto glory is my awne.

For pan salt springe vp pe specho* & sprede owt of
rayne, 1884

Tow at I Lune Conquired a king’ pe kydilest of pe werld.

Pot ono tals ze me tald « I trows be no fable,

Of pe refuse of rede gold - your regions within,

Which plente is in perso > of perle & of ellys, 1888

be some of siluer & of siche + & of sero stones,

Par-with owr willes er replete + & our wittes sharped,

And baldit vs with pi besaundes * pe batell to byd,

‘Made vs coragiouse d& keno * pi clere gold to wynne, 1892

And pat away our ponerte - yhe pledyn vs to hald.

Dot as tochand fe trufels pat 3e to me eend,

De lerne-payn, fe hand-balle « pe hat made of twygzes,

Dair hase poo prophecicd apert « & playnly ys achewed,

And fair enfornied ys before * pat folle sa after. 1897

For be pe bale, sir, I breue - all fe brode werld,

‘The orth pat to myne empire * entirely is holden, 1899

And be fo hatte, fat is holye? + & beforo fe heued? boget,

I Conatrew pat ielie kyng * mi incline to my-selues.

Pan hope I, be pe harnopanne « pat po henod Covers,

Overcotnmer to be callyd + & ouercomyfi newer.

Now Fo gretest vader god * gyfos mo truago, 1904

With al for digniter be-dene * pat douisod I Hano,”

‘THys brofe ho bidklox paim Bore * & betwundes faim reches 3 (Poi.190.3

And aftyr armes hys osto * & ayres on forther,

‘Sir daring for pis deter + nore dyes for sorow, 1908
Ani to two po derrest of lips dukes * ditex ho pie pistol :
“*T, Coroundlests kyng + of kyngez all oper, Epistola,

And also to pe, sir antigon - myne awno atheHt dukes, 1912

* bo, written abave the tine. * Read bolow.
* MS. Neuen; be see f 1902,

al =

Dabliny © § = cerren rrow sin priawva TO nanivs. 109
‘The sowerancst oft my senory * my satrapers haldef,
‘Se hore I vend pou my svalle * with ealutes of Toy.
For alexonder the kynge * as I am informod,
Ts entrod with owr enmys ‘anc endlos nowmbrs, 1916
In pe angler of any ~ & haso puim al steoydo,
For-pi on life d& on lymez * my logomen I chargo
‘To pristly fou apperalo * & passe hym agayns,
With alt fe hntellys & po heres = & po hyo mnisters 1920
pat 3e may assemble on pal sydez * saugeours & oper.
‘Chesse fou forth chiftanez * & me pit childe takes,
Laches ime pis losynger - & ledes mo hym heder,
And [I] salt hym ekelp with « scourge « & pen in skyre
perpere A 1924
A syde slanyn hym insow - & send hym hys modre;
For now he prokes for pride - & pfro]prely wodes,
‘For-pi he must be bett «as a barne falles,
Bot it aught noght suche brolle * in none armez of
worez, 1923
‘Bot at fe bulez as » brode * or with a bale to play."
Dire princes, when pis pistol ~ was putt faim in hand,
bai departyd fo prowde aealle * fo printe pai honour,
‘And rnlappyd lightly pe loffo - & fo lines redyn, 1932
And pos agaynward * p[o]i grathed hy ono oper.
®To pe kyng to acount * of alt kyngez on erth, Eplatote.
Sir Dery with pi dore goddes * dressy in trone,
Gouernour? of ilke grome * & god alt fi-scluon, 1986
pi eatrapers, pi senyowrs * with serayce obidiena :
Sir, wetes it your worthynes * & wenys no langer,

Dat pis childe with hye chiftanys * 30 charge vs to take,

‘He hase ridefi alt your regions ‘ & raymet owr landez, 1910

Desperset alt our prouince * & purely distroydo,

And wo pen liften yp a lite * & rydyn hym ayayna,

‘Ford forth with a folke* & hym in po feld metyn; 1913 gram
+ MS. ncoount, * M8, Genernowr,

~_ &e

ot sone wer bidion paim pe bake * & bosely ochapynh 1944

Owt of bandea to po swerde - mony of owr athelles

And we now haly att pe hepe * pat 3¢ your helps callyn,

‘Vato yowr mykle mageste * we mekely besckyi,

pat ve your lege & your lele met + it liked jou to
forther, 1948

For owr worship is weynd * & wasted is owr remes,.”

And als radely as po ryche kyng * had red ouer pe pistol,

‘Be pot mefys in a messynger - dé manyly hym tellya,

pat alexander was at hand * & hed an hoste loget 1952

‘Voppon po ateome of etrvnma * put atraughit forow po Jand,

en air diary for poo dedes * waa deply agrovyd,

Callys bys counsel « a clause he inditez,

Maket s brous ina braydo* & ina breth sendee, = 1956

To sloxander als belyuc * & alt pus hym gretes,

‘I, Sir Dary pe digne » & derfe Emperour,

‘The king of kyngez am called * & conquerour bath,

Of aH Lordes Lord * lowsed porow po world, 1960

And ono of pe soncrenest syres * vndir po eeuen sternes,

‘To pe, my wirnand, I send * & sothly I knaw,

Api wete pou wele all pe werld + worshippys my name,

For aif pe gracioux goddez* pat po ground viseten, 1904
AR er yndir my obedience * dredies I telle,

How durst pou be so bald - far blode in pi heued,

‘To mafe pus ower pees montannex ~ & pes mony waters

Wad ayke a soume for to ecke * a sawt vs to jelde, 1968
‘Or ony maistre to make ~ my mageste ayayns?

For wele wyde wer pi wele - wete pou none other,

Both pi glory & grace * pi gladnesso in erth, 1971
Might fou fe marche of masidofi - mayntene pi-sclueh,
And gouerf pine awe grund * agayns owr wylt.

an

Dublin] ALEXANDER' MOTHER FALLS ILL.

Forpi it wer better vabenden - or pou bale suffre,

‘Remefe agayn to pi realih * or pou sal it rewe,

Fos certan, yf my senory = & my-selno ne wer, 1976

Ail fe werld might albido? + wele pon be called.

For-pi tarne fe be-tymo * or ony tono worth,

Or pe hate of my bert * on pi heued kyndle,

Lond Agayft to pi Land * Wi I Leue gofo po, 1980

Lest fou mete with my malicoly * pi right be to lity,

Forpi te ken po to knawo * my kyngdome horafter,

Both my glory & my grace + & my grote strenth,

‘Ls, har a glofo fu of granca I grath pe to rekyf, 1984

Of pe chefest of? chessubollex * choeyn for pe nonest.

‘For and pou may soume poos sedes * sourly pou loue,

‘The may acount? att owr knyghtex * & owr kyd oster ;

And yf fou thynkes paim to tell * pen tydez pe none oper,

To mefo agayn to masidon - & me# po no forther. 1989

Fyne, fole, of pi fare “and fange to fi kythes;

For as pis sede put T send * ynsoumed is ener,

‘So ben we of alt‘ frokes ~ & folkez vnnowmynd, 1992

Or ony weght to acount * ynier pe clere welkyn.”

Now ayres forth pees messyngers * & to alexander wendyn,

‘Vanto pe atrome of struma * streght with pis lettres,

And puim redey on a rase he ~ & reches to fe sedes, 1996

‘Castes paim ynder his tothe - & talkys Foes wonies :

“Hore I soe,” quod pia sire * “be pir sclue cornes,

‘pat pe pepls out of perso * er passandly mony,

‘Bot fait semys to be softe ‘as pecs vedie preuce; 2000

And pen how fele be alt fo foto * it forcoe bot lity.”

‘Be pat was mon of masidon * fro hye moder commyn,

And pat semely was soko * & somyd to die;

And he po woost of fo world * wald for hir to vieytt, 2004

Bot 3it to Darius or ho dist - ho ditex euche a pisty,

* Read ewido, = * MS, oft, = * MS, acowunty seo 1, 109,
* Here follars ven we of all fo, crossed through,

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Dablin} ALEXANDER 1S ATTACKED BY aMONTA. 115

Nonus Passus.

“T, alexander, eldest * nyr out of grece, pistols.
tals R itd ae & of hys faire Indy,

Honored olimphules * pe oddest vader heuet, 2008
‘To pe, sir darivs, on pi dese - pis ditex I write.
For T am send, be pe sure * mony sere lettres,
ee ea eee ees ov los
AB oper-wyee to wirke * jeu my will liked, 2013
Bot fis I worne, or 1 wende * & will at pou knaw,
pat for ne drede I witidmaw ~ fe dow of pi pryde,!
For beeyng no for bobas * no for brome wordes, 2016
Bot for to Se pat is Soke * my awno Semolych Modre. (Po, 21)
Bot wote pou welo pis, Lwin * in a wale tyme,
Fru pat Lfrayeted have pe fare * of my faire lady,
I salt po aecho with a soume * of sopgez onarmed, —- 2020
‘Ono cate to ney ve to newyn - & all of new knyglitez,
And for po sake of pi sole * pou eond with pi writte,
‘Lo, here a purse full of piper * my power to ken,
‘To 60 pi-velfe a similitude - how all poos softe grauoe 2024
So vnder-put [be] all pe pake * of fis pote comez."
‘Thys pisty# to po parsens * he with pis poper takys,
Partes pristly to pain + mony proude gyfter,
Apa pai haue laughtan pair louo * & po leftroz fangett, 2028
And passyd ynto perse * pe prince it to shewo.
‘Then alexander - with hys ate Dukes,
Raches hym mly to ride - & remevex hys oster,
Fro fe stems of struma «he moved & stilly muriez, 2032
And mefex on toward maaydon ~ hys moder to vist,
‘Ho aynes toward amby * & armyd par he fyndex
Aduake of Darius fe kyng * pat drafe hym agayus,
A Pero owt of perso * & prince of lye hoste, 2036
A moister man of po marche * amonta was callyd,
He girdez in with a gyn - pe grekee assaylez,
+ MB, propde, or peryde (like per In piper, |, 2028) ; rend pryde.

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Dublin] AMONTA FLEES TO DanIva,

And with alexander alt po day > nsperly feghtez,
‘Murres of pe masidona * mightfull knyghtez, 2010
Dynges downe of pu dukes * deres paim vnfaire,
Fro morne vato mirke nyght * manly pai feghtyn,
‘Slew downe on ather syde * eeges owt of nowmbre,
‘Began in pe gray day when pe gleme spronge, 2044
And 69 fo fe sett of po sof * sessyd pai nouer,
es ij dayes in a thraw * pai threpyd cuerelike ;
‘So lang, says pe lino * lastyd pe batclt,
‘Slyke showrez of shire blode * of shenderet bornes, 2048
Dat folez faired in flosshez * to po feto-lakoz
So sture & atyff wan fo atoure “pe story mo telley,
Dat for eorow of pat fight’ - po eoft of heeft
‘Loot hase is clarite + d& hya clepys sufors, 2052
For bale to Blissh on blod » pat on pe bent tlowes.
‘With pat owr gomos owt of greco * gandyn vp pair hertes,
And fallyd fele in po field - feylo of pis oper,
pe powor owt of perse * in partecx mony 2056
Swoyd eleghtly downe * elayn of pair blonkes,
And whon sir Darius duke? pis dodes bihaldys,
Amonta fo mightfalt - hys men pon he fannges,
And ynoth limpyd hym po lyfe * po line mo recondes, 2060
And fro hys faes with A few folke * pe feld ha deaodes.
And suche a passe, pen anys pe prose * to perse he rydez,
pat it fe some sendesman * he in pe sale fyndez,
At fro pe streme of strema = was on steer wyeett 2064
Fro alexander & hys hoste * with hys athelt pisty#.
And jit sir darius on fe dess * on pis dytes awysez,
Held pis lettre in hys loue * & at pe ledes frunes,
What he smayd of paes sedes - pat he faim sond hod, 2068
And pai? swyftly hym aware ~ & sothly hym tald :
“Tho kyng palm kacht,”* quod fe knyghtes -“& on po

kirnels bote,
And welo he geased be fo granes * your gomes er softe,

1 MB. ye dukes dut yo te aubpuacted,
7 MB pai bym, but hym is ewhpuucted. * MS katht,

uy

Cat 218]

Dublin}. ALEXANDER GORS TO SICILY, 1

Bob on! thynge, be sayd,? he sawgh * pat solust lym
meky2, 2072

Thai wer bot softs, he supposyd * for 20 po acdo preved."

en pallys hym xp Fe prouude gome* & om be peper tastez,

Sayed, als it toko hym be fo tong * “hys tulkes wor fH,

For, be bya knyghtex ala keno * ax mo po come shewys,

AR pe werld is to wake * hys wrotho to witetands.” 2077

‘The worthy mai amonta* pan mollys pir wordes,

Sayd, “ho lodes bot a lity#* lord, bo your Iolo;

‘Thai er bot fow at hym folows * of foghtand bornes, 2080

Bot more forcer on a fold + folle nouer of moder,

For I my-selfe with: a soume set hym ogayns,

‘With pe persens prounde * a pake out of nowmbre,

‘Mo per bys awno meyngo * ba fall fyuo thousand, 2084 victoria con-

And jit ve foll alt be fers * pe faynter to worth ; fen ao

For pal het hodit of ovr athellys + & a [hope] woundetv,

‘And fey fatlyn in po fold - mony force Erolez,

Betyn Done owr Bachilers - my Barons at distroyd, 2088 (ra)

And a solly soume of my knyghte[e] «in pe fold slayne,

‘Wheer thre® ilays out-porow * thraly we feyten,

Drafs dyntes derfo * deltyn ds token,

‘Awl it fo Tawest at po Inst - va limpyd to bo, 2093

Bot vnnetl sued I my-selus * vuslayne of pair handes.

Bot trewly, sir," quod fo duke - “grete tresour mo thynke

At alexander pe athell - for alt was he maister,

Auanoyd with wictory * & vengyd on hys enmys, 2096

‘Was nower fo holder of a haw [his] hort full of pride,

For mekely ilke modertofi « hys awne men & othre,

Als wele fo pure persena * as po prounde grokez,

Alt pe doghty be-deno * pat was dede he Commandez 2100

To geder faim yp ilke gromo * & faim in grauo bring.”

Now alexander & hys oat * armyd on ho rydea,

And sone into cosyH * he with hys segez enters, 2103

as LAIR. ny, peryeeted te on. RA

we sayel repeated: but once expuncted,

* Aboce the tine in MS, * Heat baue,
* The x ia abore the tine in Mi,

Sayd, “ze of tebe er tr¥est * & thethiest on erth,

Off all pe meyen vader sun - pat citesyns er called ;
Most heyly ye be auancelt > & hight in bert.) 2200
And now +0 jopo meh as 30 ~ gates Hase stoken,

Me & my proudest’ of my princes - 3¢ do profre were ;
And pat 3¢ #9 wilt, I-wys~ wondre me thynke, 2203
For pus wakl neuer put 3¢ wroght * worschip of armes.
Tt contrazys knyghthod + ye knawe wele your-seluctl,
To any wight wereaur * in walles hym to clone.

For he pat kyd is & keno » & counter hym a name,
‘Wilt fersly fozlt in pe feld > hye faymen ayayns.” 2208
And alexander ale belyfo * aH vmbo po eyte,

‘Mase iiij Milie* to fondo * with flanes & bowes,
Bydder pame to bend vp + & brathly with arowez

‘To wound fo wyes within * pat on po wallez horod, 2212
And two thousand be tale * he tytely Commandez,
Of wele busked bernes ‘in brenes & in plates,

AB fo syies of po cite - pat sichns had bigged,

Anil amphion, fe atheH kemf nono to distroye, 2216
And iiij fie? he fonge * to fyre pe tli} gatos,

Bot thre Milf? of thm mon - to thraw with engynez.
‘Tiym-self with slengors & slyke + he somned* « menze,
‘To hoyil & to help hys hynes * if any harme limpyd. 2520
Now er is weges alt sett - & pe saute neghed,

‘Wore waknod be-twone * werblet trompez;

Oar peple with pavyco * presen to withowt,

‘Halex yp hemp corilee * hurlett owt arows ; 294
‘Ofer athells of armes * alblastree benden,

Whirree owt qwarcla * wappyd thrugh malos,

Som with gunnez of bo grekys * gyrdyn yp stones,

‘To tene fo tobot* folio * fat on po toure fightoh; 2223
‘Som brodynoure po barres * in blysnand wedes,

And faire fast on a fyro * alt po fouro sates ;

} Citedword—in her; wrongly.

seed tard reed, Unload by this contcaction for
Tat, wile. * Or soumed.

127

ra.

_ —

Dublin.) ‘THEDES [8 TO BE REBUILT.

pat aH) po bangh at a braydo * was on a biasso kyndlott,
And po pat ande wer ynalayne as seges Fai jolden,
‘Than was withowd in fe ost. ale po buke tellys, 2233
A syre, pat sickatrons? * was sngot to name,
A mery man, a messyngere - pat manly was Toynet®
‘To mee pe cite bo so sone * shendit to brandes, 2256
Aneofer athelt ynder hand > pat Hisman was callyd,
One maister of musike - a man of fo cite,
Ayrez hym to Alexaadsr * & in hys hert wepys, 2239
Als wha ea, “ Prince, of your place * som pits 36 haue,”
‘Thea dokys pe lord to pe led - asyd, “‘leftred borne,
‘Whare to feoys pun pia fare * forwith my eghen I seo”
“ Sir Conquerour,” quod pis clork * “your? corago to byndo,
And in riddyng of our riche towne * your reuth for to
calle.” 22tt
‘Than was fo wale kyng wroght - & wittily Commandes
‘To beta into po bare orth + aH pe burgh wales ;
And when aif kyndlott was on colez * & castyn vppoil hepys,
‘Than ayrez he on with bya ost * more worship to wyD. 2243
A gentilman fal loyles * pen lornays hym after,
Folows pe folke ay on fote * ax po faire ryden,
A sage of pe mame cite * pat syre was & maister,
‘That callyd was elytomacus * to cry after socour, 2252.
‘Hiys ledes pat left wer on-lyne - n Lyte of po cite.
‘Then askyd fai at sir Apolyn - aH with a stevyn,
“Ye it worth salt to wy - whil po world standex, 2255
‘Oure burgh ayayn to be held - pat brytynd is to noght?"
‘Than galez par god pain ayayf * & pue-gates he spokes:
“ Tho tulke pat teld mon your town * sall teld vp & rerre,
‘Sell thre tymex haue pe tro: of some kynne gamez
Of were or of wristylyng' for 00 hase werdez shapyn, 2260
And whon pat worship is wot - within a wale tyme,
‘Than sai he sett vp [him] sclfe - po cite als beforne,”

* Or slcisterns. * Read Toye,
4 MB, pore,

129

(Po 4)

Dublin) ‘CLYTOMACHUS 18 TERICE YicToORIOUS.

‘Thus answers paim pis old god - & oxeus on pis wyse,
Anil pai als fayns, aH po flote ala foule ic on mare. 2264
‘Whan Ayres hym on sir Aloxancer * with bys athel Princes,
‘To pe castelt of corinthy «he commys with hys ostex,
‘With fo pares of pai pavtoz = to play on pe towzez,
Als alf po ayres of fat eydez “hom sclfe hed requimd, 2268
‘The multitede Wher to muche * oF men for to rokel,
‘That wor por somblyd & sot ~ pat foght to be-hold.
Qued aloxamier als belyne « to a fot par stodyn :
“Whar gome eaf pis gamen * hogy vpon firsts?” 2272
‘Then commes furth Clytomacus - & to po kyng sweres,
‘Tho tuike owt of tebe * T tald you before ;
“If it your meky! mageste « might any thyng please,
T wald to wakyf oure welth * now wrastylt a turne.” 2276
per makes pe prince bym a place « & prestly hym maches,
And he hym grydes to pe grund + & pe gre wynnes.
“ Now faithfully, quod pe feyle kyng’ « “ pus fait pou thrisse,
Thu sali be erownyd, or I go * for kyddest of game."
pen zede he eflsons to - & hys euch castes, 2281
‘Thrynges to pe thryd tymo * & pe thro wynnes,
And fen Commanies po kyng' * a croune on heed,
‘Als for po feo of fo play * pigt-falt of stanes ; 298t
‘Then byde hym bedele belyfe: * ‘ broue vs pi name.’
“Sirs, be my soght," quod po segho * “sitoles' L hyght”
“ Whi v0, my worthy wristiller?” * po walo kyng saya,
* How tyies it po at tounles « pi to-name is called)” 2288
® My loualy Lord,” quott po Jodo * & law he doclynee,
* Before 3¢ Come suche + & pe crowne wered,
I bed a oyte my-self * & aeges onowe ;
And syno 3 aught pis empyre * & Tam deprined." 2292
‘Then trowyd trowly po kyng * at tebet he neuynd,
And Bedels & bailjais - ho bad senono crye,

* Le. clty-less; 90 also (own-lews in Lag 2288,

131

(ol. 4)

Dublin] MASANDER COMBS TO ATIII

Feefore bys peple so part « & hym po power grayntex
To.sat hys cite vpagayn* &af hymeelf hald, 2296
pan passys he ton pround town * platea was haten,
Der wes stizlot: ono atresagera > pat was a style Prince,
‘Dose hym in with hys Dukes * to Dicnas? temple,

And fand a pure prophet * apparelt in wales, 2300
And als sone as sho hym seo ~ sho sayd pees wordes

+ Welcom, wye, fat pe werld - salt wynne with pi handes."
Pe secund day before pe suit ~ he pat cite weLdit,

‘To pe temple he tight - tithanndes to herken. 2304
“What is? pi wilt," quod [the] woman, “sir, to witt « &

how fou me {runes ;

For fon loesez alt fi Lordechips « within a lity days.”
“ What & hase pa ossod to aloxander * pus aydoi wordes,
And ms fue! ynably * pind habet pou worys.”” 2308
“ Nay, tono po noght, for trowly « pus tyde bus it nodey,"
And so it worthed, for in a wrath * po walo kyng swyth
Hym of bys principalite depviues *& pon pe Prince fondes
Anone vnto athens & on * of pe atholt Planotter;? 2312
And pai sayd, miro suld ho xiko * bot he po cite olde.
And alexander with hys oat * pen ayres on ferper,
Attellys hym toward pe termo * & of po tone herea, 2315
And such a word he pair waytfea be wrilte fro hymseluen.

, Decimus Passus.
I alexander, ayre * & heldest child both
‘OM kyng philip po fers * pat fossit am in grece, 2320
And of fo wheno olimphades po oddoat vnder hevyfi,
‘To all you of atthonys * pus atthilt I my sawes.
‘Fro pat my fader wns fey * & fallyn out of lyvo,
And I wos pat in hy eege + with septour in hand, 2324
‘Syne wont C with my woryowrs * in-to Fo weat endo,

* Read Diam _* Writton above the line in M3,
* Sein MR; But corruptly.

(Pot, th.)

Epiatola,

Dublin] DEMOSTHENES GIVES WIA ADVICR.

And fai withowtyn armys* faim alt at onys joldyn,
AH europe to my empyro* enterly pai gover. 2337
‘Who pat rokenly ys reanuod » no raddour tholett,
And nH pat otherwyse wroght * we wastyd for ener,
And now fro po marche of massydon * [ mofod on lato
Torow fo nnglos of asy * with myne athe Dukex, 2333
And 5 fe tebes palm tyzt * pe toun to defendo,
That I pair pompo & pair pride - to powder haue declined.
And now writte I on pis wise * pat, wold je me send
Ten? fyne philosophirs * to fond with my wittez, 2330
Your burghes ne your Inyght bees - bidde I none ober,
Bot pat 30 knaw mo for your kyngt « & callomo your Lord.
For nyk yho to myne empyre * your nokkys for to bowe,
on bes you bigger to be = pan all my bald Princes, 2340
Oper Iates ano oper Jodosma * alosed moro of atrenth
‘Thon I my-self & my eogos + bo fo souynt dele.”
pos athols of athens « pes awgerd Clorkes
pen roueronst pai pe riche scale * & rod ower fo pisteH,
‘Syne kestyn vp a clone yoyce * & eriod alt at unys, 2345
‘Some in Commendyng of hya carpyng * & aoif in dyepyxyng.
‘Tham A plilisofre? on fo frist! - boforo pat folke rysos,
Ane Excnlus in pat orde * é& egirly spekes, 2348
pe? Doughty & oH Dynynowrs « be-dene ho Commandez,
hat pai auld acord bo no case * to fo kyngex heste,
‘With pat al sampnes in a sopp * arsempbles po peplo,
A Doctowr, ane Domestyn * pai derly besekyn 2352
‘To Counsell faim in fat cause ~ & ken paim po best
Aad he psn mikenly rose - & rekens foes wordes :
“T Besck» you now, my cilesyns * if pat 36 «ane woche,
Bot soberly a sete qwyle- my sawys for to herkyn.” 2356
And sayd, “if 32 feyle you so ferce * hys force to wiVistond,
Ayres ayayns hym with armes > adinittes noglit hys sawea,
And if yho fynd ye faynt’- fulfyH pan hys wylle,

1 MS, Then, * MS. philipofre, —-? MB. 30,

135

(hol. 83 6

Dublin} TO SUHEIT TO ALEXANDER.

‘Vinto his mckyH mageste * mekely you bowes, 2360

For sexes in som tyme > sirmountyd alt kyngor,

3it ligt ho Inyo at po last * for att hye lethie pride,

Bot alexander with hys armes * in alkyn realmes

Hasso bappynd ay jit hyder * to pe yer of hys foes ;

‘Vanowmerable er pe notez « to navyn of po weres, 2365

And git botyd nouer po tyme * pat ener toke ho shame,

‘Wer noght po tulker of tire * pe trast’ of pe werld,

pe kydiest knyghtez to acount = ynder pe cope of heuen,

‘What bath * of comge a kene * & connyng of armezt

Loko quar it profett pam a pese * all pair proude strenth.

‘Wer noght pe tebeites parto - pe tithiest of oper,

‘The worthicst! wyes of po werld - & of witte clerest, 2372

‘What serayd jitte alt far sapience * & aleghtes af were?

Of poliponenses pe peple * with pis prince feghten,

And pat faim loderly con like + zit at po latter endo, 2376

For pur Je kyng of po kyth - was kyllyd downe & heuod,

Hys renkes rymet’ att pe route * & hya roalme zoldes.

Wayte 30 noght wole porow alt po world * how alt thyng
‘with bym goys? 2379

Rar tes asegirs poten? he of hys strenth pries,

3it ze make you malicoly ~ hys mageste ayayna.

parto yhe do not your Diuour? * I dar it wele profe,

Te was pe gilt of goma - not of pe gods Loni. 2384

ee aren eens hr rato? T take on my saule,

And for pe graunt of po sir aloxeonder + is alt fo world fumed.
For one of pe curtascat’ kyng? * pat euer crowne weryd,
And wets 30 wele pat suche a wye ~ pat is so wyse haldyd,
Ho wald neuer sussprise « no sege vnder hevef.” 2390
With pat alt piso athencz - & fa auancet’ maisters,
Peete attr tat, tut it ie stench out,

Me, Dinuowr,

(ra. 20)

Dublin) ALEXANDER'S LETTER TO THEM. 139

And Clone ali po clerge * conmmensonr & ofer, 2302

Thys Dininour domostya » by-dene pai commendyn,

Acorde paim to hys counselt - & kenly it praseh.

‘Then amoyd paim to air alexander * anono for to send

A Crowne alt of clone gold - clustred with gommys, 2396

Of fifty pound wns po paseo * as po proso tollys,

‘Thys trecour tizo pai hym to * & tribute hym highton.

Now or pe sandesnien in sute * sett on por blonkez,

‘A gentilman pat Iowel - inionoyd was to kepo, 2400

‘pat was fut sarkenly & fall soft + alt in eylke falden ;

Bot clerkes to fe conquerour * cayred with faim none,

‘Then moffyd forth po mossyngers * myles bot a faw,

And ligt nil belyue + at pe lordes tentes, 2404

Kaede downe before pe kyng' * & hy pe crowne raughten,

And jerly tribute hym to gyf zapely hym highten.

Than taso fo godman pair giftes * & gretly faim thankes,

And yaderstondes ina etound » how it stode clene, 2408

And of po egeyng of Eaculus - pat ertyd hys foes, (6,980)

‘Yo withaitte bys sawe * & serue noght hys piety}.

‘The dytes of domesty » & 20 dyd of both,

et Counsellyd hys Commaundment + to kepe on alt
wyeo. 2412

‘Fit nouer-poloter to fo ledes * a lotter he enformed,

In presydence hye Awne prince * reportand pes wordee

“T, kyng Philipp son pe ferce + & hys fayrs ladys,
Honourd olymphades ' pat I obey most, 2416
‘I kepe neuer kyng to bo called * nocache me pat name,
To} all po barberon blude * bowe to pe grekys,
J attellyd neuer athens * with armes to entre, 2419
Bot you questions to enquiro * to wete with my writes,
And purposed ay out' af reprone * your persens to lens,
Bot 30 pe contrary clene * in your conscience doys shew.
' Better Til,

Dublin} ‘THE SPAMTANS WUBSIST ITM,

Bot whilke of yow as foundes frist + on fote vs agnyne,
‘Salt neuer voydo my dyedane * ne my derfe Ire, = 244
And jo at thynkye wykkydly * & wyrkys agayna 5

For aa po grane is of po grass * & par growex po fruto,
‘Tho tebotter tulkyd* vs with tono * atyrod paim in armya,
itt for alt pair rinllte * resaued fai pair mode. 2498
And for strasagera pe stout’ * 30 styfly mo blame,

‘Thar as he giltyd me ayayns ~ I hym gradit haue, «

I write to you me to wafe * ten wise clerker ;

‘Yho kest ont Cammandmentes + & knew noght my atrenth.
T might acoup you of fat cause + & T it kyth wald ; 2433
Bot T forgyfe you alt pe gilt - & grefex me no more.
For-pi beys glado now, alt po pake - 30 salt no grofe rofre,
‘The Diuynour Domestyh * for 3¢ hys domes halden.” 2436
And fro pai consaued hed pe chiuse * & construed pe pistyH,
‘Thai wer pe meriest modersons * fat might on morne rise.
Now fonndes he furth pe felo kyng * & flittes hys ostes,
eee waite ele ele a cl re ws 2840
‘Wiliout fe burgh on a bank * boldit he hys tentez,
And far hymeolf with a soume * in a sege lenges.

pe* Jedes out of lnacydon ~ belyfe paim assembled,

Sayd: “how wo nouer tohya body * for bale vppofi ertho,?
‘We lett ve nowr be oo lethir + pat wo loke worthen 2415
‘To pine out [of] athons * for it wor opyn# shame ;

For pai wer busy! for hyn beste * & ford for noght';
Bot be wo kriyghtly & kene - oure comge to shew." 2448
‘With pat pal garkea to yates * & zoden to po walle,
Some in Idmpons & in Tomorauntez * som Toned in

plates,
A grayno of po grote see * glad paim all vmbo ;

Forpi buskys paime pe bungesso * a batale withowt, 2452
‘Presson forth at posternes * vnto a place wenden,
Shalkez shotten into shippez - alt in shire malys,
Arches with rows * with atterd Larbes,

- hyd, * MS. To
bic cia ea

MW

Dublin.) Hm 1 AGAIN yicTORIOTA,

Gone paim into galays « & grathen faim parforne, 2456

‘Bowyn bernes into barges * wit) Busynettes on heued,*

Sparthya spitons to spend * d& spores in handes,

ai crossyn ower toward fe kyng?* als kene mew shulden,

With als fele on po flode » as foughten within, 2460

bo lord hym lokex on pe ledes - & a lityll Smylez,

And Send paim vnder hys eealle - pis saughez in a pistyH.

“Myeelf,philipp Jo felt kyugee [son] * as T fit saya,

& als of olimphades * I only you rede, 464

Jat po ende of your elilers - enterly 3¢ holden,

And rooues? noght at po raync-bowe * pat reche 30 no
may,

And pe power of persyens * 20 purely 3¢ trasten,

Letter 40, nommys yow a name * & naytes your atronthe 5

Bot bowes first fra your bargex + & blythly pam woydez,

For fost I al in a fyro * pe foly is your awne,”

‘The ledes owt of lacidon + when pai po leffros herd, 2471

‘War drery, bot [For] aH po dole pai dight paim to fight,

With pat po kyng & hys knyghtos + viabelappes pe cite,

Sott all fo Galays on glodes * brynt doun po wallez ;

‘The ostyners & pe sergeantew > alt bat vnslayno weryh

Bowes fan to po baratour * both bodes & lyfoz, 76

“3a knowa wolo,” quod po conquerour * “ my Commyng
‘was fall easy 5

Bot for* 38 fonge me not fair - nowo fyryd or your shippez,

‘Your borgh os tayttynyd d& your berne{s] “I bye you my-
soluen,

3e auld nott stady ne stem * pe sternos to byholde, 2480
For he pat steppya on a stogh - when pe stoure fayloz,
pen fallys hym pe featyng: of bys foto & fallo hym byhofys ;
‘So ryght as aixes was elayno * 9omo tymo with your aldours,
Als ettled 30 Sir Aflexander). = bot par your knst faylyd.”
‘When he pis sagh hod paim syd « po Cyto ho pam grauntyd,
Fonds forth with hys felke * pnir frauchez paim lofya,

‘

iS. heuend. * Or roones.
* Adore the Une in MS

(ra 378)

Dublin} ‘BR ADDRESSES HIS KNIGHTS,

‘Thys sourrayne with hys eencours * throghe secy he
wonder,

thoght to rye d& to rame - po regions of Barbers. 2488
en was sir darius adrede * & derfly pan sembles

Hys knyghter & hys Counselt * & carpod pes wordes,
Eayd: “etrys, nowe mny 0 60 * yourself with your ecy,
How Aflexandor] in hys armys alway encrescs, 2492
An valour & victory - de vertus 20 noble ;

. fares I thratt [him] a2 a thofo * thedes to dispoylo,
Nowe warreys he falt worthily ! + ale wit? man suld,
Constraynes with bys contenance * knyghtes to howe,
fe more I epoke hym dispito * & in my specho enderod,
‘The heyar I hore hym enhauneyd + & hersud hye name,
A ba & a brayne-paft «I to pe borne send,

For burde & for bobance * pe bab with to play. 2500
Hym pat I Counto bot a knaffe + may now be callya
[maistor] ;
‘For whar be ffoundez apon fold » dame fortounc hym sewes,
For-thi ve hafe buse in hort + pe heyle of our pople, 2503
Aad fer no pompe ne no pryde * hys person to dispyso,
For hys Joywe, ffor all hys hattellayke - is loxyt porow po
world,
And po mors T mang our maleste * fe more it debates?
‘The grace of pu greto god * I gesse, wele hym helper,
Of pris Fe hogh provynee * vnto pis prince lefys 2508
‘When we hope all po heldest - to herye hym with armos,
Jen am T raddest alt our realme ~ be mymed from vs first.”
Sone as sir Dury to hys dukex * devyxod hase pees wordez,
pen anawers hym oryather * on of hys awue brether, 2512

“ Now hase pis gome oute of grece * so gretly enhaunsed,
‘And wo po lande shuld love - & he po landes entre,

Bot wald sour maiesto fo manera * of pis man sewo, 2515
30 myght your realme hauo in rist - & other landes wynne,
"MB, worthtly, + MA. with,
© Gaiohrard—po grace,

ALEXANDER, L

M5

(Pol. 90.)

Dublin] © OF THR WOLY AND THe siteKe.

For Aflexander] always - or ony of hys bernes, 251F
Nates hym-eelf in ony nedo * & ao hys namo ryzy."

“ Sir, om my perell,” quod a prince - “he passes alt oper 5
be wee wyrehes al with witte + & worthos ay fo better ;
For-pi of fe Tyon, ax T lof ~ laght he hye byrth.” 2522
“What knawez uu fat?” quod pekyng * & pen po knyght
answers :
“Sir, I was aend on a sond « my-self on a tyme, 2521
To philip hyo fader * to foche hyo trowage ;
Dar hed I syght of pe segge - hys sapiens I herd.
For-pi plos it yorur person * our princes assombles,
Off medy & of mesopothany * po mon of ytallo, 2528
‘The pople of appalomados * fo paranther folkez,
And mo pon hewen! to your hoystex *a hundroth & fyfty,
‘Lat ve gecir to ve our gomez * our goddes wyll vs help ;
And when he seys ve suche a powme * sore wyH ho drodo.
Ja, bot fon a wolfe, quod po wo = wyll wery mony
fokkez, 2533
And 0 fe grace of pe grokex * ouergaso po barbres.”
By Pia air philip eon po fers * of fightand bernos
‘Had semblyd hym a sowme yneene + & pus says pe text,
‘Two hundreth thousand fn thede * a# of thro knyghtez,
Rydex furth in amy + remewys hys tentes, 2538
And thoght to logs par & ret - & ese hym pat
nyght. 2538°
‘Vatifl a water he -wondes * as po writt shewys,
Dat with fe marcheanen « of Mocian es haldyn ; 2540
‘Clerax pon cristal » & cold as a chylt ;
And arin couett pe kyng' - hys Cor to be bathyd,
‘WA pat pai wan of bys wedez - & wessh hym all ouer,
Whar-porow he hynt suche harmo « pat hetterly hym
arefyd. 2544
‘The chele after chawfyng * enchafys so hys harmes,
Dat he wns fallen in a foner * or he lost wende.
* Sie; read houen,

ur

(ol. 843

Dublin} ‘BY PHILIP THE PHYSICIAN,

Den murnyd all fe massydons - a8 murvell wer ellex,
‘Whon pai hym sawo #0 bo seko * sayd ichone to oper:
“Be pis disease to sir Dary * & to hys dukez knawy®,
‘He sall va sott on a-saute * & surely vs Combro.”
Y¥# pai wer sory & 20 * no aclly me thynke, S551
For ay po hoylh of pe hedo ~ helpis att fo membrys,
pen callys to hym fo Conquorour * a clorke of hya Awno,
‘On philipp, bya fysycyafl * hys fare to byboldo 5
OM all maner of medycine * mafi pat most kowth,
A gong berdlea bors » as po buke tellys, 9556
Sayd "loter lyghtly my lord * for in a lytyH stounde
‘My-self with a Syrope * shall safe you bylyfe.”
fen was par permeoti fo pround «a prince of his hoste,
pat held po erth of Ermony * & enmyte hed 2560
‘Vito pis Clerke of pe kengez * de be no cause ellex
Bat for po lode was lofed * & with po lord cheryst ;
pen mays he to xiv Afloxander] anono sucho 9 pystyll :
“ Kepys you,” quot he, “ Conquerour « & kachez nott hys
drynkes 5 2664
For Darius after hys deth - hys doghter hase hym hyght,
And you to sla by tom slyght * fo seyse hym hys landes."
‘Yitt was pe berfi not a beyne * bassyd of hys wonlez,
He assuryd hym so sully“ pe syroppe he fangez, 2508
pe Hcour in hys Awne lofe - pe letter in pe toper,
And into philipp face * fast he byholdes,
‘Ho bad hym drede neuer a dele * bot drynke it Swyth,
And pen pe pistyH of pe prince * ho put bym in hand,
‘The leche lukyd ouer po lynes * “my lordyng,” he sayd,
“Ino om noght gylty of pis « by all po godes owte 1”
‘Alls fast sras ho fyssh-bolo * & philip ho clopys,
‘Haleys bym full hortly « & of hys heyllo thankez, 2576
Sayd, “wele knew pon my kynde « pi conscience I lofe,
First suppyd of pi ayroppe * syne sesyd po my letter,
“ My lofely Lond, be your Ioffe ~lottes hym apero, 2579
‘The tulko pat suche a trayne * has attachyd to my-seluen.”
* The d is abore the tine,

M9

(ro 227

Dublin] HE CUTE OFF MIS MEANB OP BETREAT.

jen after for permeon hya prince » prestely ho sendes,
And par po trechour wan tance * d& for hys trayne hated.

en mevys he forth with hys men’ & medy he wynnez
Enterly to hys empyre * & Ermonye po more, 2584
‘To a deserte fon he drof - was dry & no wateres,
‘Throgh andriake to eufrates * & sottes par hys tentes,?
And askez a brigg ouer po burno - of barges with
chynez ;
Commandes hya knyghter oucr to carye * pai hed kokell
ertes, 2588
Seghen po streme be so abylf * pai stoned po helder,
For lest po festynyng? had faylyd + & paim fo flude drenchyd.
on makys ladder over to loud * & lokors of boste, 2591
And monyabyd pon icho moderson * paim manly to sowe,
3itt wer hys barstours abnist - & pon pe beri wrothed,
Foundea firet on before * & all folows after.
jar passys owt of paradyse « twa brade flores,
‘Throgh medy & mosopothany * pai mouen, an I fynd, 2598
Ani 20 to babyloyne pai bowe * pat is po bumne of tigro,
pat oper is oufrates fult ouon * ynnoz s0 to Nilus faays:
pen Cates po kyng in two hys cablys + & to hys knyghtes
“ Lo! pof vs fallys nowe to fles * we may no ferre wend ;

arfore I broke," quad po beme +“ our bakker nousr to

torno, 2601
And If we did, withowtyn domo * to dyo all at ones ;
For he pat folows hase pe floure * & he flees neuer,

Be light & lachys pou lose - itis alordez gamme, 2004

For I make aavowe put massydoyn * shall see ys no more,

USS slaelgidan may wo blyth bee.”
Here follorr— Aud yc ath ental tM

pe jee apr a eee
2 dbove the Tine fn

VoL

(ol. 10 8)

[Gndecimus Passus.]
Nowe hafys sir Dary po deri * of dukez & princes
‘Hefyd vp a hoge hoste - of fyfe C knyghtez 2608
Ex chosyn for chyfianes « & chargett faim to lede;
Trottes on to tygre * & par hiya tontes scttes 5
pen mette fai on pe tober morne * with a mucho nombre,
Sir Alerander & hye atboH men + armed on par Blonkes,
‘The multitude to mo > wer mervelt to Rekea, 2613
Petr] commod was on pat oper aydo * mony ead hundreth.
Nowe er pes banera oute brade * & po bates neghes,
Blew bomes of brave * & buskyn to-godio, 2616
pe ery of fo Clarions - the clodez it parsyd;
And for donte of pe dynne * dauncen stedes,
Both Jo two batels * bremly assemble,
And soggez with hys soumez * eoght vnto oper, 2620
Knytes on pair coursours ‘ kestyn in fowtro,
‘Tachyng into targettes * tamyd pair brynnes.
Dar was stomblyng of stedes + stykkyng of Erles,
Sharpe shoderyng of shote - shoryng of malys, 2624
So stalwartly in # stounde * staryn paim pe grekez,
pact of po Barbron blode * all pe bent flawez.
Sone ax sir Dary pe deth - of bys doghty hedys,
‘The pite of pe persyena * hym prikkez in hys sawle, 2628
‘Says hys moynze so amonyst - & hys men fonged,
A flew put fresh wer vndefowled * to pe flyght turnes.

3yt was on wer of hys oste «an odde man of Strenth,

A borely berne & a bald * als pe buke tellys, 2632
A seage fat he sured hed * to eeyse hym hys doghter,

Yf he myght slae with ony sloght * po senoour of grece.
He clad hym all in clene stele - a Conyavaunce ouer,
Dot mad was & markyd * on massidons armes, 2636
Kayres hym to sir Aflexnnder] * in all pe most pireac,?

* Catchnord—as he.

| Dublin.) ALEXANDER PARDONS HIM,

As be an athell war of hips - bfeJhynd hym he stoles,

A bryglst brynnand brand he bnade owt of shetl,

Amd porow fe helme into fo heued + ha hurt hym a
2640

AytyH.
And po knyghtes of po costa * ax pai pe case mawgh,
pen fange pai pis ilke freke + & byfore pe kyng brynggex
“What nowet my worthi werayour" * pe wale kyng
my,
‘Ho wend pat witterly it were - a weo of hysawne, 2644
“Why hase pou brysyd 0 my brine > & with a swerd
woundet
Your sokir seruand in same * alt wer I sir clepyd,
Af wer I haldyn for hede * jour helpar at nede?”
Nay, hope neuer," quod pe athell “str hegh Emperoure,

Me ony massydofi to be * fou myssys of pi Awne, 2649

Bot of po crack kynde * Comen of fe barbrys,

And pus U dyd, for sir Darins hys doghter hyght mo,

And cordytt vnder pis condicion * to coupill hir to wyfe,

And qwen ho went of pis warld * to weld all hys realme,

‘To hewe pi hede from pi haleo + & onys it hym ehewe,"

Mow kyng Alerunder callye pon hys knyghtes * paircounsell
to frayne,

What sald be done hym for pie dede” * & pai bydomo?
fon0, 2656

Some, pat he hanged suld be * & como pe hede pershed,?

Some bydes in @ balefyre * hym bryn all to poudre,

“ What haso he fautyd$” quod po freko * pof ho hym
forsyd hafo

‘The charge of hys chiftane * chefely to fyllet 2660

‘He pat hym demys to bo dede * he dampnes hym-scluon,

And dytes hys awne dome * & pat dar I prefe.

For demyd I ony of my doghty * sir dary to spyH, 2663

Ashe is! gontelt-man enjoyno*snld hym-self be iugged pen.”

* MS nereuor, © Read eden. "MS, prishyd.
* Read ye this.

(rom)

Dublin] BIDDING Hit SOT To PnESUME, 159
Sir, we fine send to you writtes + zitt writte wa pe

mune,
iow pis maister outn of massidoyne * our marches hath
enteryd, 2096

Bryut vp our biggenges * brytiynd our knoghtex,

And we ousrsett be 20 sore * to suffre ony lenger.

For whi your dignite bedene - we dorely besekyn,
Ayayne fe foree of our foes « vs furthers a while.” 2700
‘When lie had rekkond all pe rawes * for raukour he swellez,
And oute anone to Alexander] * all pus he written : Zpladola,
“I, Dary, with po dignite - po dyademe of pers,

Of alt kynges kyng « fut Crouned was euer, 2704
To fe, my seruand, I say * als mo was sent late,

‘How pon! lownys in pi lityllake * pou likens to my hert.
Bot pardo, pi prouydons? * inpossible it ecmys,

A hery ase to hell + on hye to po atornes, 2708 pany
A thyng put thryffyn is and thyke * & parnes* wongez,
Anil fawrtes bath fo fetbirhames * & po flyght-lomes,
Forfi mynd neuer fo more * to mounte po to pryde

For ehaunes of no chovallry * pat pou chefyd hase, 2712
For vertew no vietory *avaunte noght piselfe ;

‘He pat enbanness hym to bygh * pe lawer he declines,

T havo hen 3\t of pi hynlake » at harhaldes & at oper,
Off} pi noblay nowe anew * anenes my awyn modro. 2716
Both to my bird & my barnes * qwat bourite pou schewys,

What curlasy & hyndlake * I ken alito-geder.
Bot surly all pe eeson * fou faim #0 ples,

on fonnges mo newer to pi frend » fyne if pou likes. 2720
De more frendehifs perfore « fall shall po neuer 5

For-pi put faim to pyno I pray po nogh{t) wonnd, 2733
For my angre on fi arrogaunce * call at pe Jast kyndyit ;
Duarfor do jon pi Beat god forbyd pout spare.” 2724"

‘ Real MB mh oMs
Berean jor ones tej,

Dublin] =e Ato Waites 70 ms own risers. 161

‘When he Inkyd ouer pe lynes * ha smyllys at hys wonles,
And dyter ayayn to slr Dary * po detoys pat folows =

“T, Aflexander], pe eldest « & all my one Bpletota,
Of kyng philip & hys fers + pat frelich Indy, 2728
Honord Olymphades * pat only me fosterd,

‘To po kyng owte of persyo * pis prolong T write:

Sir, vanyte & vaneglory * & vicys of pride

pes or pe gaviles, I ges * fat pees goddes hates, 2752
Aud ich dedly do * pai dreffe pain to ponysh,

at hase dryghten of vndedlyncs - drawyn paim onone.
Dis sinilitude of piself - I say alt-to-geder,

Dat assurys xo pi surquidry * & seses neuer more 2736
‘To bost & to Vlaallemo! * blyn wyll pou nowper.

Bot for pi guld & pi gudez * a god pou pe makya,

Dou ypbardex* mo for po bowto « pat I pi blade achawyd,
As to i moder I mone « & to pi mory childer, 2740
pou makys po to malycole *& menya pe for lityH, [Pasi 0)
I wroght it nowdoe for pi wille - no for pi wale thoght
YH I kyd paim ony curtaay * it Come of my-selueh,
Holy of owr awne hert/ * & of our hond thowys ; ora
Na we pride ve for no prowex * predestinate vs here,

Our godides gyffyn va par-to pat grottly pou dispysye,
Latt nowe pis lutter bo lust? « & luke to pi-seluc,

For sekerly wit/ioute surement’ * I echo po agayns.” 2748
Dis bref ho biddes paim boro * pat broght hym pa toper,
‘Takys pam of hys tresour + & twynnys with faim fairo.

‘When pai to persye was pmuti - a pistyll ho enformes,
Wrote x writts of ys wills - & wafed to hys Princez,
‘Hye seruandes & hys soncseals * oute of sere Inndes, 2753
Ana pus Comandes he Juim clene * po kyng in hys style.
4T, Aflexander], fat as heyr - avaunsyd am in grece,
pe soa of philipp po fors* as I first told, 2756
Aud also of Olympades » my honorable lady,

* Read Vastome, * Read vpbrailex,

‘Dublin.] NOSTANDA WRITES TO DARIUS 163

pas send I to my satrapars * salutes of grace,
fy pares oute of prrnphagoyno * my princes & my dake,
‘OF po sencour of aurry * my sogger & my erles, 2760
‘My knytes oute of Capadoos + & all my kyd Landex,
‘Tho ledex onte of Landace~ & all po Landes vinbe,
Tecommand you on pe Clore fayth * put 36 my erowne awe,
pat als delyfe to nlexnander* ynto my awne Cyte, 2764
Tk one sond bo paimeslf + of sero alayn bestas,
OW fresh & of fyne slayn * fellys a thounsand,
‘Some gryne to bs grathyd * to my bernez byhofe,
Bome puryil pelour d& dopuryd + to pub in our wedes, 2768
Atl east palin yppon camels - pat in pat kyth lenges,
And karys with paim to eufraten * pis erand haue in
mynd.”
Defri) wee a man, as ime of menys - in pe morne-while,
‘Was of sir Daryus a duke + pe def emperoure, 2772
One pat Nostandy was namyd * « noble Prince, (ol, 88
pat cortylyed hys souerente * pees sawez in # platill :
“Syre! Dury, duke of iche douth! - drightyn piseluen, xputia,
‘The grete glarius god - grathyd in pi trone, 2770
‘Nostandy, to your nobelnes « & ay ny neke bowe,
With seruage to your senyoury » my-seluen I Comaund.
Tt semyd not your eeruand - [syre), vndistreynyd
Vato your mokyll rageste * pees materys to write, 2780
Bot I am dopely disteyssyd - pis dede for to wirko,
And made pis mischeff to mene * mawgre? my chekez.
For wete it wele 3owr worthynos - pat of our wale princes
Two of po tithieat er tynt + & termyd of lyfe, 2784
Hat loet wer nowo po last day «a lityll fro tygro,
In tatell on bent feld > in-biand with po grekez,
par whe I girde to fo ground * & gretiously woundit,
Waneth me chefyd in pat chaunce * to chape to po flyght ;
And oper mony of owr men - mightfull knyghtes, 2789

4 The @ i adore the Tine in MB,
* MS, Nyre duke of « icho douth; with m abore the line.
? MS, mawgro,

ua

Dublis.) ‘LETTER TO DARIVE FROM 118 MOTHER, 165
And orls of cur empire - entervly distroed,

Dat oper your legeance * lethirly forsakyn,

Karyn pai to sir Aflexander] - & onone zelden. 2792

‘Then to Nostady on next - notez he a letter, Eplstota.
Dat he suld semble hym a sowme * & sett pam agayns.
A-noper pistell lete he passe * to porrus of Inde, 2797
To Come & help with bya heer * & he hym pus aunswers :
“I, Porrus, at possessyd am * po partyes of Inde,
And ara po crowne by kend - clene of all pe ylos, 2800
Sir Dary, with pi diadome * dressy in fi trone,

‘To po with ealutes I soud * po sealle of my Armez,

‘You pray ynto my person - my power to amiemblo,

And you enforee wit my folke zour fooa to wilhstond ;
Tam bowne at fi bode * & buxme was ever, 2805
‘To hys & to holpe at 30ux host » while my hele Lastes, (Poa
Bott nowe a langor mo letter - put I Inght haue,
Se ee 2808
pat T may strene me ne stirre * for stoundes pat T have,
Bott lyse de lukes Jang’ - when my lyfe endev.

Ang as euer I warysh of werk * pat Tam woundit in,

As me 8 wo for pl wogh * & pi wrange both, 2813
Timay not ryde you to reseww * pe reuth is pe more.
Bott T shall lefe & be lightyid « parfore be 30 light ;

And be T conered of my cotho - kare for no grekys,
Remefe you for no masydons * ne man yppon erth; 2816
For I sall hele all in hast - & hye to your kythez

“With ten legions at-pe lest - & all of lelo knygii

Be pat Rodogors pe ryche * fo reuerent Lady,

The dere dame of Dary * of pis dedo herys, 2820
at hir Awno Childe with A[lexander] -etlyd sitte to fight,
Aud sorows selkouthly sore ‘ 4: sendes hym a pistyH;

Dublin] == anivs naumsers ms xoss op cronr.

©To kyng Dary po dott - po derrest of hit childer,
Rodogors pe riche whene" * pua rathe acho hym writes :
“Bald baratows on bent - berne of my-seluen, 2825
Here send 1 fe, my swete « salutes of Toy.

‘pou hase hefyd ¥pp i hogs hoste * as I haus late her,
Sammy all pi songeonrs * & semblyd pi peple, 2828
And ettlys pe sir Alezander * efte to assayle,

Bott wete pot wele it is not worth - & were ye be tyme;
For hed pou gedderyd all po gomex ~ I gease, in po werld,
‘To withsiond hym a stoure * pi strenth wer to litylt, 2832
‘For godder prouydence a-pert - ay prestly hym helpys,
Salfys & sooours hym-eelf - & sustayns hyz euer,

For-fi hoo with pi hatness - & pi vn-hemmyd wittes,
Avale of pi vanyto * & of pi vayn pride, 2836
Obey ye to pis baratonr « fe best I can redo;

‘Magnyfyo hym with pi mouth » & mokyn pi hert

For ony hatell ynder heuen - for power fai haus may,
More sekir pai wer to fortako « & sewo ony forper; 2840

In pease & in pacionce * possede pat he myght,

Pen be exclud outs of hys erth * & nower in cave dwelt.”
Sir Dary for poo dytes * was doply diseasayd ; as4a¢
‘When he poo rawoz had redde * rwfully he wopye,

‘Hye aldore & hys aunecaters * sls ho remonbrye; 2844
Thoght how pride paim depriffyd * d& here a passe endes,

Duodecimus’ Passus A[lexandri.]
Fast’ kayrex hym on sir Aflexunder) - with hys atholl
Princes,

To pe cytewurd of susys * hym-self he aproched,
bar av sir Dary in dwellyd - with hys derfe hostes, 2848
So nogh he Come pe clyife - he kend ouer pe cyte.
With pat ho Commander hys knytee * to cutto downe
belyife 2850
* M18, Vodecimun,

167

(ra. 3.)

Dadlin} © atexayven. wtves ro pamivs’ cane, 160°

be bowes & fo bobbez & braunchos * of bulomo & of lyndez,

And bynd ynto pair blonnkez fote - of buskox & arbor,

Both to morye & to mulez + & all maner of barter,

‘The peplo outo of persyo* pat euche a pake anghen, 2854

Bybeld on high to po byllez + & hotterly wor stoubed ;

pai wer eon wondderytt of pat werke * pat witterly pan
sermyd

As alt fo ground & po gravoz * had gano paim ayayns,

So negh fe Cyto he pame soght:* & sett vp hys tentes,

pot thre days to pat thede “he tharnyd & no more, 2859

Sayd : “latt on dryfe to sir Dary * Jatt drysse hym to feght,

Or put hym to my power & plete we no lenger.”

pe samo nyght in hys slopa* to hym sodanly aperyd 2862 aa Nora

Amoya, hys auene god “in angels wyse, Sint

Tn A mory mantyll * of mervalous howys,

‘Menand as a maxyion + in mercurius forme ;

And any: “ ynto Susys'* no Sondesan pou wate, 2866

Trott fongo pl figour to po fast » & fonde furth pi-sclucn,

Cleth pe with my Conysaunce - & for no care dred,

Thete fe holy my help *no harme zal! fou hynte.”

He[n] slode he slyghily away > when he fra slope xysys, cra. srg

A breme blasand blysse * in hys hert kyndels, 2871

Boeknewe hys knyghtes of hys case * & pai hym clone redyn,

bat ho shuld grath hym to go * as hys god chargyd.

pen eallys to hym pe conquerour * one of hys kyd princes,

Emenylous, pat hye Erles * & hys hoste lodee, 2875

Hoende & hardy of bya hand ~ & hoge man of strenth,

And parto lelyst to hys lord + of ait lede# oute,

‘Ho bad hym bowne hym belyfe * & on a blonke worth,

Anopor folo with hym fange * & found with hym-eclfe, 2879

‘Strode hymeelf yp on a sted + in a starand wedo,

And on a coufr}sour pe knyght * with a colt folowd.

To fe grote flode of gratun - to-geder pai ryddyn, 2882

And fyndyn it froxyn paim byfore * a fute-thyke yay,

Deblis.) DARIUS WONDERS WHO HIS GUEST 18. wh

‘Thys is fe streme of Struma * with mony stedes clepyd,

And jit pure propre name> in poayeus tounge,

‘Then A(lexander] ale belyfe “bys abytt chaunger, 2886

‘Thys renke with hys rowimy «he rydes ouer & lofya,

“Nat latt mo lend with pe, lord” * po lede hym byzekys,

Lest anger or aventor or ony suche falle.”

“Nay hofe pou here,” quod po athyll « “ ynto my agayn-
Come; 23890

‘He fat Tecght in my alepo * shall me ackir holpe.”

Wits pat ho bradee on hyz blonnke * & brochez hym in po

exiles,
Bowye bym on toward po burgh «als bright as an angel.
‘Thys rouer pat I first rede of * bo rewls of bys kyndo,
Als wole in senzun of aomer ‘aa in po md wynter, 2895
And pat is neuer bott of nyglitys * so nataly it fresys,
To ony power on to passe * or preke with a stede.
it hase pe flode, as T fynd +a furelenth of brede, 2898 sar Nota
And eusrilke mornyng it meltes ~ for myght of po son; Mw"
With muche a rente pen it rynnys * pe Romayns it wittnes, “"™
pat who tuke it in pat tyme © war termyd for ener. 2901
Be pis aprochyd hym pe Prince * vnto po prounde Cito, [rot 07
band hys blonnke.at « barre « withoute pe brode zatex
‘The perayens of bys passage * wer parsandly wounderyd,
And gessym hym all to be god - for glory of hys gere.
“What domesman art pou!” quod Dary - & drofe hym
ayayns, 2906
“ Sir Afloxander)," quod pis athell - “hase all Jus me sond,
‘Byddee pe to batell buske » what bode mase pou here +
Onder jaro pe zapely parto ~ or to his zokke bowe.”
““Wheder pou be he” pe hathell sayd, “so hetterly pou
spokes, 2910
fon melles noght av a messenger * a wynyster bower ;
jou Carpys likar to A kyng - pat Closyd wer im pride,
Bot I aim dred neuer adele «of all piderfe sawez, 2913

Te te

Dublin.) ALEXANDER CROSSES THE 10r.

By fo light fut he hed » lacchys on hys way,

And fonndes fast to flyght - with a fers wile.

‘The pepls of pe palays + when fui hym passo sigh, 2978
‘Dai russliyn yp in a reys * rynnyn into chaumbres,
‘Some arays paim in ryngges * somo in awe brenys,
Some in stalwart stuife -& some in stele plates 2.980"
With hard hatter on pair heddex * hyen to pair blonnkes,
Prikkyn after fe prince * prestly ennarmed. 2983
Bot Fon was nyght on faim nogh * pat noyed faim sore.
‘Sone wor pai wolt fro fnire way * po wod was co thykke,
Some of howes & of brores = blemyst pe faco,

‘Somo wer drofyn into dykex + somo dopo mires ; 2986
‘Bot Aflexander] at my ayme + par augerly eschapye,

And ay trotes on po troyde-gate = als hym pe torche vysys.
Sir Dary a4. drory man * dwolland in hys trone,

Wits princaz in hys palays + aH ponsoy ho sites, 2990
‘The baldnes of pis baratowr he belyfe remenbris,

Pat sonpett so wove schathelos * fro all hys echateH dukez.
‘pon was ano ymago within - as I am onformed,

Off weroxies put some-while « pe Cyte hed to well, 2994
Forgyd all of fyne gold * & fetold in bys sete,

And vnder pat souevent soggn - y-sott war pair awer,
And sodanly pat symylacre - as saya mo po taxt,

AH to-paschys into pecas * & into powder dryfex 2998
den was pe wale kyng woo * & wepand he says:

ut

“bis betokyns trublyng: of my teld * & tene to my go.er)

realine,
And Aflexander] po whilo * asperly rydes
To pe grete flads of grantum * & it as glas fyndes. 9002
‘And be he soght to pe syde *gitt soundent pe qwornes,
Fyn hors it honyshyd for euer * & he with hard

achapyd,

pen kayres he with Emenylaus * ouen to hys princes,

‘Anl derfly of pat oer day * of doghty be aasemblez,
41 MS. fete,

‘Dedliny ALEXANDER MOUNTS NUCKIMALES.
‘Twa om in a thrume * all of trefo knytes, 3007

Cayrez hym vp to a Clyff + & comforthez hyn hoste: ;

* Soll newer be porsiens pakko - be pare to po grokez,
And pof pai war mo be mony * mayso nott in hertea; 3010
Full felo floya may nott felle * bott a fow wasspez.”

And all fo Company clene + Comendyd pan hys witter,

[Certinsdecimus passus.]
By pis sir Dary wae dight' * with hys derfo Erlea,
Hofyd vp a hoge hosto * & hastyd hym to ryde, 3014
Hys gonge & hys garyeoti * in glasynand wedes,
‘Goes hym to grantam * & grathoz vp bya tentes,
Hye stoure was stalwort & sture ~ & strang! to abyido,

‘He hed of men for to mynd * mony mayne hundreth,

pat suche-a sight & x somo * of sogyoz enarmod

‘Was noner [sone], 1 suppoyse * son pe soyge of troye, 3020
‘The Chyftanys hed chariottes + chosyn for po nonest,

A Ten thouusand be tale * tried for pe were.

And poo wer sott on ather aye * fall of rythe-blades,
Keone keruand as knyflev + & coursonrs paim deawya, 3024
‘The next day be fe none * new note rysys,

Ather freke with hys folke «in po feld metyn,

And bald bernez on bont » banerya vnfaldyn,

Pattyn penons on pollez ~ payntyd with syluor, 3028
Afloxander) als belyfe - es arnyd vp Clene,

Bownez hym on hys blonnke * po best vader heucs,

pat was po bald bucyfalt - as po buke tellez,

A fole worth fyfty of fat - at in po ude drownyd, 3032

‘He spedee hym on a grote space * fro hys pers all,
Cowerys hym fall clenly - & closys lym in hys gere,

179

(ul, 96.4

Dablim] «= Dantva PLeRS OVER THE FROXEN RIVER. 181
‘The power of persee - when fai pe prince sec, $

‘Was ferly frayd of hys forme “so ferdfull he semyd. 3036
Nowe cr po batels bowne * with bragyyng of tronipettes,

The breme beeme blast - beryd to po welkyn.
Aflexander] all-par firet * on paim all settes,

And aythor ward at a wappe * wigh[t]ly enioynex, 3040 se more
Archers & all men * asperly ehotyn, Destine”
par was Tustyng of Toy + Topons attamyd 5 3
Seghon downe on ather aydo * somelych knytee,

Some dasyd, nome dede - ome depe woundytt. 3044

‘So fell tlyght was of flonys «as I fynd writtyn,

‘Of arows & of alblastres * pat all po Ayro blyndyd ;

Huger to byhalde * pon po haylestormos,

And all ps fold full of folke + fyfe myle large. 3048
Als sone as ps eof hup eoght’ = po elaghter bogynnys,

And to gett was po samo * seaytt pai newer.

Bo fut po barbaryn blodo * began to desend,?

‘The proudest of po persyens * passyd owte of lyfe. 3052
‘Sone as sir Dary devyzyd * & sawe hys doghty falle,

‘With pat he biddes pam po bake + & bydes no langer ;

pen qwen pai fange to pe flyght- was nerehand euen, 3055
And merke withowte mesur = na man myght pam folow.
For-pi fe chariottes in po chase - chopyd faim to deth,

The carter put I Carpyd of - with pe ken sythez,

Dai felt all fey paim byfore - with fotemen & oper, 3059

As ressynnys in a ranke fold ~ when mon ouer rydex.

Sir Dary drpfys in pe dirke « & hys doghty folows,

Goys hym on to grentum * ynto po grote burns,

Fufide it frosyn hym byfore * as fell for pe tyme, 3063
Pasays ouer with hys porys * a pak oute of nowmbre.

Hys floke fyllys at* po id. - a furelonge of bride,

The stremo fra pat one atrande * streght vito pat oper.

Sone fra hym-telf was at fe syde* it sounderytt byhynd,

* M3, defend. * Reaid al,

‘Dublin DARIUS WRITES TO ATEXAxDER, 183

And all pat lent wer on-lofte * lost haue fe swete. 3068 (ret, ang
bus mony doyd pis day * as demys mo writtes,

Off polles oute of peraye * withoute po prounde grekys,

‘Thro C Mille? of throo * pat tharnyd pair lyfor,

With fo folex & po folke * pat fo flude drynchod, 3072

is sencour ynto susys * hys awne cyte wendes,

Fallys downe on hys face * att in po salo,

“Wo is me |” quod pe wrecho * “wo is mo ynhappyf !”

Sighee eelkouthly sore * & eadly he wepya, 3076

“J pat was stmnght to po oternea ‘am etrykyn nowe to

ground,
Nowe a cnithan & a knaffo * nowe am T kest vnder,
pat had of the Orient all ouer * homage vmwhilo.
Witt ony wee qwat hym suld worth * pie werld wald lo

lofe, 3080
Fell eymple in 4 setewhile + eekyn to pe clodes,
And pai pat most er of myght + meltyn all to powder,”
With pat ho rewfully rose * & ronker oute he sender,
‘To Aflexander] ale bylyfe * & all eucho a PistyH. 3084
“TI, drery Kyng on my dea * Darius of Perys, Epietola,
To Afloxander] po heyr * pat all hase to weld,
po leyge lord of my lyfe * to lese or Lo safe,
‘pus send T to my souerun * ralutes of Toy. 5088
So wyde is po wisdome * pat wonnys in your saute,
pat wle 30 wate of all pat was * & worth here byfore,
‘OF all po notes pat er nowe > & what on next sowys,
For}i zo witke euer by wilte - ye werke vnreprefytt, 3092
Sir, [koalegh me a crentur * & Comyn of A woman,
‘Hefys nott your hert to hye - bott hodes to your ende ;
Tt Lympys nott allway pe last « be lykkynd to pe first,
Qaatt wuld a knyg/t more Couett * pon conquer hys fues?

‘Was not Seryxes hymvself ~ fe sourranest on ground, 3097

And chefyd hym nott of cheualry « chekez oute of nombre?

itt for hys will oute of warde * was wonne into priilo,
Ze Three hundred thousand.

‘Dablin:] © Avexaspen meqvines pamvs ro suRwrT,

‘In fe lede of Elanda * lythirly he fynyd." ~~~ 3100
‘Thynke howe only of god * pia ouerlake pou fongen
Fonpi haue mercy of pi man * pi myght we besekyn,
Allof pi grete gudenesse * to graunt vs oar moder, *
Our bindo, our barnes oute of bandes for beeaundes enoghe.
Fer all fo featez pat our fadir- in fw molde? byddya, 3105
In battrye & in pis beld «fo bungh of elanda,
‘Tho maistre & fo mnitste- of medy & of perso,
With all po Tolyte & Ioy « pat Tabiter vs lennye.” 9108
Po eesges pat fra suaya* wag pent with pia pistitt
‘Caryn foi to Afloxander] + onone & it hym rmghten 5
And’ he doys gno’baforw hya hostes + it opynly to rode,
And all po knygites for po carpe * wer clonly rvioyayd,
Pon wasone permeon, a pero * A prince of hye heste, 3113
Enolynes downe byfore pe kyng ‘ eayd : “kyd Emperour,
‘Fesauo, I redo, pis rechez « pis renkez pat tou byddee,
And Jouerys hym hys lades * & aB bys lono ebilder,”
pon Aflexandor] als belyfe * pia athelt he clepys, 3117
de barnes pot broght hym pe breve » say: bowys to
your Lord;
And says, me wonderys, I-wysse * yf lio it weno auld,
For ony mele vppari molde * hys meynzcy to delyvert
‘YH he beé fallyn vnder fote « & bys folke strenyd, 3121
And voncust of our vyolence * what valy hym hys heostest
Hye person & hys prouynes - let put in my, wy},
And 3iif bys xndir th joke = I yarne hyn} no mare.
And yif he grunt hym nott degralyd ~ hott for pe gree
thropys; 3125
Byd hym buske hym eft to pe bent & luteH vx zeld.”
Dus monyshedt he’ pis mesayngers * pair maistex at say, |
Gyflys puim gyftes full gude & byddes faim go swyth.
And pen commaundez le hys knyylites * pé corsez vp to
gedder, 3129

* Read folle.

trast

Dublin} ALEXANDER YREDS SOME TRIIONERS,

Ofall pe doghty pat was dede * & dight faim in gfps.
And all pet woundytt was, Lwyase * an po writto tellys,
Hee gart soke pair sarys, & paim salue* with sunrgorst noble.
At po thade of grentum * nowe grathez he hys tentes, 3153

Honours bys olde goddes « & offers puim oucher :

pair fando he palays xp pight' & mony prounde homes,

Some-while of Serxes was sct * fo ayre of pair landez,

Bose eldes lee bydidrs faim bryn* &ayne of hys bode rewys,

And ted no berne be so bald - « brand for to kyndyH.

Dar was a brode bent feld » was fall of beryd kyngee,

OM olde perys oute of pors of Princer & Dukez S140

‘The masspdoyns in fe mold ~ mynyf into p= grafez,

Founde coupes alt of clene gold * & costyous stones,

be sepulturre of a ayre * of Surry was crownyd.

Hym. was pe name Ninus ~ was in anoko fuunden, 3144

Was of ani athyit amatysty - & alf within grafen,

Mantyd all wit palmetres * & mony prouude fowlez,

And suche a clarctt? it kest?* porow kynde of hymeclars,

Men myght hance kend withoute kyst’ + po cors all-
1 bogeder. 3148

par wns o tenefall toure * & tulkez ineloayd ;

‘Some was Po harmes of hove * & cote pe lygez wantyd,

Somo po hoghez, como pe oret + & egerly erydea

On Aflexander} after help + & ho faim at delyuerys.

Me wepys on faim for woo * myd: “woo is me, my

childor 1" 3153

And ichono of hys talentes * ho takys ten thounsand,

pas war ai dyght of Sir Dary * for ho disdayno hed,

pat pai war comyn of kyngez * & be no cause clloz, 3156

Tre pem fo Doghty of air Daries * our dorf messengers

Fro Aflexander] ayayn » bys Answor haso broghtyn ;

And he pen gynier ute to grote & grathex hym to fyght,
4 Reed sargent. * Read clartoe.

17

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‘Dublin. «© ALEXANDER agAIN PREPARES TOUATTACK

| To ps honound heore oute of Indo pus Ondayné he a piety.
“That pe septour & pe soyle* xesyd am of pers, SIGE
‘To porrus vader my prynt - plosaunce & Toy.
First wrote I to your worthynes - 3itt write I pe same,
To help rs Anesth pees athell men * pat hery wald oure
realme, ” 3104
And, be ze sure, pe mme way * is to yourselfe etteld.
And he pat werrys vs ‘ is po weldar of grece,
Es wrawyd & wrathfoll of wilt» & wode asalyon, 3167
As wawes of pe wild eco + whet wynd paim dis
trobles ; 3167"
And pot I sowme & samme * seggez oute of nombre, 3168
And cok with pis conquerour * tyll I be cold drepyd,
itt ix mo better on fe bent * in bate to faylo,
fen ses pe loase of my lodes * & ay lefo in aorow,
For-pi your lordabip as loge maf * I lofely beaeche, 3172
As T pat am in ongroa * my askyns fullfyHt;
‘Ten echelyng of my trew gold * tulko pat is army,
And fyfo to A fotemani * faythfully E hoto, 3175
Zitt shall I ondayne to your one * whareuer our hoste ligger,
Nyno score of new gere * of nortuyryd maydons,
Bacyfall po bald stede + sall als be your awne, 3178
‘With po armoz of Sir Aflexander] * & all fe oper pelage.”
‘Nowe floon pai fro pis felt kyng’ a some of hys knyyiites,
‘To Aflexander) als bolyfe * nls pus hym told,
How pat Sir Dary* with hys dukes * dreasyd paim to
~ — tyght, 3182
‘Had send after power * to porrus of Inde.
pen onlaynt hym pis honorable - & with hys hoste flyttes,
Ayayns fo persyen Prince » he purpose to ryde,
For fe name of emperour * wald he neuer fonnge, 3186
Or pat soucren wer slayn * & seyeyd to hym pe realmo,
Sone as po kyng of pat kyth - of hys Come herys,
en wos he ferly affmyd - & hys folke both. 3189
And pen kest two of hys knyy/ites * to causles hymn spy},
‘he added here, but truck ont,

189;

‘Dublin. DARIUS IS VERY SORELY WOURDED.

pam afterward of A[loxander] * attelland a mede 5
Pees tratour on pat trichory * trouthes haf stroken,
Lenden puim on-loft to pe lord * laghtyn oute ewerdes, 3193
“What eall [ dre," quod sir Dary + “my dere worthy
childert
First cald I yow my clyontes * pat now I calle Lorde,
Semys you nett it shuld auffyco * my sorow now withoute,
pat a2 a bytand brand + mo bytee within, 3197
And sla 30 mie pus sodonly f * po senyour of grece,
He will me wroke on your works * wore pen of thoffes!”
par mevyd paim no werey *bott manly hym woundit, 3200
pat downe he heldee ali tohewyn * pair handes bytwene,
pen Aryfen forth poo Domesmen * & halfdede bym lefey,
Fomand oute of freche blode * & hore a fytt ender, 3203

Quartusdecimus’ Passus A[lexandri].

Q[ujken Afloxander] of pis athol * pis sunters had herd,

How he was dygit of hys doughty + & to po doth
woundit,

He stright hym on to struma * ouer po stromo rydes,

Soght on to susys * hym-self with hys hostez.

be pople oute of persye * when pai pie Prince see, 3208

Dea yo pai forth & vngarkya po znter of po Cyte,

Resaved hym fell ryally * with reverence enogh,

Sayd : “ weleom be pou, weryour * part alt pe werld loater |"

Sone ax fees warryd wightor > waa war of hys como, 3212

at Sloghen so fir souerent’ - put neuer paim gilt made,

pai yen faim to holer - & hyden faim belyfe,

‘poght, or fal wist of hys wylt ~ pai wald not apere,

pen goyse he vp be degrees * fe greken maister, 9216

Passyd vyuto fe palacys * fat paradyse eemyd,

Was in nukke of pat mote ~ noght mervoylled a lytyH,

+ MS, Duodecimus,

(ra, uy

Dublin.) ME FINDS DARIUS WOUNDED.

pat Compast was of Susys * pat kyng was of pors.

be flore vnder fute * fynoly was pafeyd, 3220
Conared aH of cristal * & oper clere stones,

Zitt wer po wallex of pa wane + wroght, aa T mde,
Paolyshyd all of pure gold - & of plate werker.

And pot was strengkyllyd fall of sternex - & strykyn with

gemamys, 3224
‘Wiad bright blasenand beys * ns bomys of po sonne.
po hatheld hodes vp on hight - & hugely he wounderez,
Jat ouer suld Emperour in orth > suche a place welde.
Quen be had farlyd hys fyll * on ees fair homez, $228

193

‘Tlh}rogh-oute fe sale fan he soght' ynto pe self chaumbre, raed

Par #8 pe lord in lay * with lothlyche woundes,

Gyrrdand cute as gutters * in grote gylle-stormez,

3itk was fur lyfe in hys lyre lytyll yEit semyd, $232

‘Att Tehe blast of hys breth « pe blode fro ym jottes,

‘Sir A[lexander] on hym avyaya * dé trewly hym thynkez;

De pure pito of hys payn ~ persyd hy hort’,

pen nymmes be fro hys awno noke * ano ompenura_
manteH, 3236

And pat ho Couerys ouer fo kyng' * & clopys hym in
harmez,

With grome grotyng & grone + & gryslyche torys 5

‘Bad ; “comforth po, afr conquerour * d& of pi caro ryso,

pa dose ayayn pi dignito * po dyademo of pers, 3240

And po rightea of my realma * resayve als before,

‘My pure poworfull goddes * prestly adoure,

ino exmpyre & pi herytags « pe purely to zeld ;

Bold neuer no gome be glad fof ha grett wor, 3244

Off hys neghburs noye + anentes hym-seluen,

‘When fortuno fundes hym, fro * & hym pe fete schewys,

And all fo weltho? pat he weldes - & pe werld chaungez,

Bryng forth pi banes, & with n brad - pi bale shall T

Venge.' 3248
pis mgh sobband he sayd - & so pe segue wakyns,
* MS. wethche,
ALEXASDERL °

Dublin.J ALL WORLDLY GLORY FADES

So grote I grow of my gudes « & gold in my coffers, 3280

Dat kondly goddes creature * I know nott my-selued,

Bott for hys felow & hys fero - faythfully me made,

pus prosperite & pride? - propyrly me blyndyd,

Tkouth noght sce fro my soyge * to po sotto vnder, 3294

Dat at mo faylyd to fynd * fast at my coyn.

Be fe myrrow[r] of mekones - I may a mylo knaw,

‘Y# ony hathelt bo eo hard + with vnhappe woundit,

So pat ho hopys hym no help * of fohyo fader, 3288.

pen lyftes po kyng hym on-loft’ « hys Jangor abroggoz,

Enhaunoos ym in hand-while + & hefye hym on-Loft*

So ho, pat oro? for ynselo * sogh nott hya Dryghtyf. 3291

Loto pen hym know hys creature * in kyndyllyng of Toy,

pat he lnghtnes may Iede + & Iyft when hym thynkee,

And pat brynges hym abowo « bryttynd all to powder.

pi sewle, sir, into Surquydry + latt soch nouer po
heyere, 3295

[Leaf 40 is Toat.]

* MS, provide, + Kor ore, read be.

Ww

Dablin }

199

Dublin) ‘TOE MEANING OF THE Gk OF IT. 201

‘What bere pat berys it hym on «ft trightyns bys ayght (rots tay
So buse a kyng to consayvo * hafe a clere hert,
‘To ee pat sittes hym to aco & sagcly to wirche, 8359
‘The thryd was 0 topas, I trowe * pat to fo trono longyd ;
pat is So clere of hys kynde - po clauso it rocordes,
Dat who-omover in pat ilke * hya vysago behaldes,
Je face is to fo foldward - po feto into po welkyn.
‘So comys it wele toa kyng * to knaw to hys onde, 3364
‘Howe ay fo top to po toes * is turnyd at po Inst,
When fortoune frayster froly hym in-fero * ho fyndes hym
belyfe,
‘And all hys dignite bodene * dryfys into Powdor, 3367
‘The fourto was a granato * pat glowys all par fynest’ ;
‘Te none so rede, as I rede * of all pe ryche stones 5
‘Suche colour aght* a kyng wele * in countonaunce to bere,
at he shope to no cheualdre * fat shend shuld hye name,
‘The fyft was all of Adamanv* aa fe buke tellya; 3372
pat is bo pat is so hard + pat hurt may no tule ;
Is noper stole nor no stone - 40 sty if may it porco,
And growya out of pe grate see * in games & in Cmggor.
Yif ony navy to it negh » pat nalyd is with Irne, 3376
pen clofya it ay to po elyff * carrak & ofer ;

‘Dublin.] AUL LAWS ARE TO CONTINUR IN FORCE.
FWitiowte ‘lode of body, soys Jo buke * boys it neuer
persyd,

Or po nature of a-nofer thyng * pat nedes noght to rekyn.
‘The samo kynd shuld a kyngt’ of hys craft vao, 3380
So stabyll & so stedfast’ to stond in hys werkez,

Pat for no prayer ne proose * no pleaaunce? on erth,
Onte of fo rakke of rightwyssnes * rynne shuld he neuer.
‘Tho suxt degree was of gold‘ gmeiously hewyn, 3384
‘Off all pe metallys of mold > pe malster & pe ayre 5
Tho sume cur is a kyng * be kend af hys leiges,

To gye & goueryne hys gomes * fe grettest is he grathyd.
The Seuents vp to Fe sege* was of fe self erth, 3388
pat is no more for to mone * as mo pe writte tellys,
Bot cuerilke kyng shuld hym knawe * ereato of pe soyle,
And fo pe same sibstance * sodanly to worth. 3391
Dus sott our Syro in hys sote * with eeptour in band,
To pelour & in palle - & prouude men hym vibe.
pen lete he letterys belyfo + with ledes oute to send,
Dorow ail be preaynee of pers * pronounsand pees wordez =
“<The kyng withowtyn compere * of kyngoz alt oper,
Of all lordes nowe lord - pat lefyn yppos erth, 3397
Sir Aflexander}, athyll sof + of amoft hys drightys,
And also of Olympades * only consaved,

‘To pe soucrayne & sencscallez, > po syrez & po maisterys,
And olf pe peres ote of pers - princes & duker, 3401
bo iusticn & pe gontytea * pe iugzes of pe lawe,

Both oytezeyns & sergeantes * salutes of grace,

Soth lukkyd hath po langenes - of fc lord of houed, 3404
Pat mo pis Dindomo of Dary * domyd is & grauntyd,
And to be hero pus inhaunsyd « in hya hye trone,

3o shall bo glad of my degree * & gretly reioasod,
And ondayns ower all & ay ‘honorable princes, 3408
Gouernoure & gardons * of all my grote bunghez,

Ag was in Darius days * to demo men po right,

1 MS. plesaanca,

203.

(ol. 4 62

Dublin] Be BRHEADS THEM FOR THEIR TREACHERY,

And lene all our eliontes * to kopo pair demaundes,

Icho poplo pair porscasiof * in peaso myght pai broke,

Armors & actona * lat alt pat bo kepyd, 3413

Cayruz paim to castollye * & to kyngez houses,

And none to bold, or I byd * to bere paim no more.

And fro pis marche to masaydoyne * whil I am maister
hore, 3416

‘Tho passage shall in athor parte * plane be & opys,

pe Comors oute of athir coste * to cayre yndistourbletty,

‘With message & with merchaundyse * & all maner of nedes."

‘Nowe er hys pistellys forth past’ » & poasa he Commande: ;

“Which of my frender er pe folke * pat my fos slogh,

hat wer po drwpers of air Dary * nowo doys pai apers,

Jat pai may wold for pair werk - worship & mede.

‘My mekyll myghtfull goddes «I maynly you swere, 3424

And on po lay pat I lefe * & be my lofyd moder,

[Here encia the fragment in the Dublin MS.)

205

Ashmole] ‘WE KEEPS BIS WEDDING-FEAST. 207

[pe lattér endo of his lyfo *:mo list gow to tol, $472

For a po finit is in fittis * & folowand po lettir, ‘Te tet part

And he pat made zow pis mirth * oft mynes his sanle, footw
pat dirigtin deyne him to dole - a dele of his blis.

‘Sone as ser Dary was deid + & done out of lyue, 3470

And Alexander a3* alre * had att for to wild, ‘Wher he Yaad

Remyued to his riche quene * Rosan his dogur, a

And was pe croune be-kent - of clene all pus ends,

Te gedint hit a grote ost - & graythid him to ride,

A powore of fo Persens * & of pe prowde grekis, 3481

de Messedones & all men * he [inaynly] comandis ta proud 0

On kyng Porrus to preke + & prose him with armes, =

Now gase le furthe with his ging’ ~ fo gaynest in-to sad ada to
yade, sage

are many daics be dissort - he dryfes with his ost, Mecomestos

Bo hige hillis & howis - & be holuje dodines, Sag

Bo wast d be wildirnes - & be watérles bournes. 8487 — po.oa

Sono was ho wery of fe way "40 was his wale kniztis;

Menyd pain po Mewedones * cmangt pain-sclfe, The Orecks

pai aid, it mizt bo eufficient + bo eesyng’ of Perey,

And him pot? trouage off tymo “has tane of oury eldirs,

Quat wuld wo fonde any ferre * now faylis oure sndaskwhy they
atrent[h]ie 5 192°" 8

pia on® of ynde is ilk dolo + onhabet with bostia,

And he bet willis all po werd * bo weris him to Iouto,

His flesche is fostarel & fed + be fist & by etornos, —— Alesander tnew

And wore his perso in pea * bot for a pure tyme, 3196 "" M

pan suld ho faile as a freke * at po fode wantie,

Bot Int vs Tus him at longo + & lende to oure hamos, tweet sen

And pas quodire as him plese * with po proud barbres,” ™™ "=="

Sona as oure kyng of his kniztés - pis carpe vndire-

stonilis, 3500
‘He mas to stand all pe stoure * & standis vp in pe mydilis, Alexander
“Bald buralours on bent * blythly mo horis, “ft mel

3 MS. as ar; with ar struck ont.
"MS. pat me; with an struck ont,

Ashmole.) TORUS THREATENS ALEXANDER. 209

Quils any blast of oure broth * if oure brost lougis,”
pan zede ho furth into ynido * & in paso Hos wores ;
‘Quon all po iolite of giuguo * & Tulus was ondid, 3537 Jane snd Joly
And messangers a-pod fe marcho * him metis belyuo, ™*"*
‘Fra kyng! Porrus po pronde * pia pistill him trogt. ation comme
1 “T, Porres, put-as principalt . possessid am in ynde, “™"/*™
To pis michare out of Mossedono fis mandmont I write,
pon, Alexander, pou Ape + pou Ainlaze out of grece,
Pou litit thefo, pou losangere * pou Iurkare in cites,
Sen pou ort destayned to die & dodoly pi-selfe, 3544
pat! agayn dristin of vade[d}tynes - quat may pi dodo

vaile? S045
Madding marrid bas pi mode * & pl mynd changid, —, tra.euy
Ben god has sent pe with to see * & it pi with failes, sommed tne,
T hope pou wenes at we be like to pire lethire Persyns, Tore shaken ve
pat pon fi lordschip to Ioute as now of late strayed Pervinss
And for pon fellid has in fizt ~ a fijt at was sympall,?
‘Now mises pou to }i miscrie -my maicste to bows, 3551
‘Tf gomes be gouerners of gods * fan mai pi geese worth ;
And if fe Land bere on lawe « be lickned to po heuen,
pe ministracion of mefi - to me were to febil.
All drijtens & dewossia * ore dute of my name; Alors are
Ane ser Denys, a duke * gane many wintire, 3556 Taman nie
‘He bed ys bataill of bont & po back turned. Ln
And or bab Soxor him-zolfo * eoaid was in Poray,
At po marche of Mossodone * made vu troungo,
Bot for o* partive era ya-prophotable * ve plees paira

na langi, 3060
Ai wald fe wiso hauo wale soilo + mare pat a wast leo.
Caire agayn to pi kith * caitoffe, bidd, Maturn to thy

Horo na lordschip po limpis - quat list po disyr” = 7"
T Sone os pis claws to cure kyng * [was] comyn &
delivere,* S564
Borfuro hia bacholors of brads + ho bodis it to rede,
4 Read Au; the eval idiom, * 08 aymplitia,
* Inthe maryin, 4 Read delivered,
ALEXANDER, Pe

Ashmole) = PORUS TAS ELEPHANTS WITH CASTLES, a

With-cuten bachelera oft blonkis > & bowmen of fote,

‘Foare hundeeth Olyfants in-fere=folowid him enarini[d], oma wo
“Witd ilkans bundon on his bako - a bordcfi castelt, ‘pach bearing m
Awd thevtty talkie in ill toure «tired in platia, 3603 ™"*
‘Oure mey-he? out of Messodono *quen pai so many saje, Fol. an.)
pan ware pai storbet of pat store * so was pe styths

Persyra.
AB po athila of eer Aloxander + was arjed in pairo hortis. Te dros are
‘To mache with sike a multitude * of mon & of bestia,
‘pan was pir chiftans chosen * cheualous kniztie 3608
Pat Dnekil ware on bathe halfo - po batailt to rewle,
With fut pai take wp pe trampis~ be throtty at anos,
A-gepdis grymly togedie * po grekes & barbres,
Sire Alexander was armod * & askis hig stode = 3G12. Alesander monnta
at was pe bald bocifalon - & of his buke worthes ;
‘Mare pan a stanceast at a count + be-fore? his knitis alt
He standis vp in his sterepe * in starand maylis,
he men out of Mody ~ ho mas, & of Pers, Solo
‘To enverofi alle pe vaward - of aif fe vile yndes,
And ho was geaythid [with] a ging! * of grokis knigtée
And ansistres out [of] Moasedone * pis meyhe? to help.
he pepilt ont of Persye * ware potusly woundid 3620 joan
Of Olifauntés oulr alt * with horrible burtis; eophante,
All at ynwerio? a-way * wynnes in po stoundis
Durst nouir his foo to his {aes * oft of fold bido. ,
Sire Aloxander him a-visis » & ames in his wittis 5624
How he mizt bring it a-boute * pire bostée to devoid 5
And maa to beote alt of brag «as bornes it ware, Aloxander malees
‘And full of glorana glodis + pains to pe gorge fillis; ea wth fe
Ans instrument aff of fren * pure ymage to bers, 3628 “™™*
‘Was compast off carto-wiso ~ d cursoures pair dreyo,
pire Olifantis of ynde + quen pai pareon waite, Se
pai wend pat warg wees * & wyndis paim agaya
To drepo palm az paire first did + disclosid pai po
chaviles, 3632

* MB, bo before, * Read moynho,
ra

Ashmele.] mm GARAT wRaumt o” rxprA. 213

First fand he pare of fyne gold * a foure hundreth postis, ate toasco

WAA crafti coronals & clone’ coraen of posame. 3565 Lomeli

Be-twene pe pelers was pizt * with precious leuys,

Gilden wynes with grapis « of gracious stanca, meee

Sum werr of cristal clere* clustrid to-godire; 3068. pearls

Sum made ware! of Margarits + be mast of po word ;

‘Sum wea amoth smaragdyna * & opire ama germmes, — ont other gems,

And now nychometis * nomellus endentid,

pat ware as somoly * quoi pai ware amon, 3672

‘And all pargestie of plate * as pure as po noble.

je Messedons in path morkid * with paire mekill brandis,

And pe thinnest was a nynche thicko + quen pal ware Thethtonet
purje persed ; 3675. Deel wm ne

And fo ware strenkild wit stanes * ax sterne o po heuyn,

With charbokl{e]s on po champ > & with chefs perles.

‘Smeten was smarsgdans * in-to pe smeth werkis,

And athill amytists als * in qungels licknes ; ‘Thom were

Of uor & of Olifants * was ordand po satis, 3680 fate ser,

‘With barrors of ane Ebytitroa * bonden with cheynes, ant mr ofebony.

be Ebyn, as po buke sais « brin will neuir,

‘And growis in po Tlos of yndo * as Teodry tollia,

he solers was of Sypirs ‘all of a woyte makid ; 3684 Tue ohombers

‘And Symolacees in po sale * was sott vp-o8 trons. ="

AB of glittérand gold * ns gomes it were, ‘Teae wen
Dischoualor with chaplots - of changand howes ; thrones pol

And ilka tulke n tabernacle : tildid was ouire, 3688
And pat was grauen alt grayd * of gilden platis,
Flamband all in filour + & fowlis en-blanchie, Abo Lindy
Mokely merkid & mado * of alt manere of kyndis; “rua
And pa ware proudly dopaynt - Fe ponnes & po wingis,
Of all colours to a-counto * as fai ore cled here; 3603 witk bite of gota,
Of fothithame é ait fare * az foetely onjoyned,
AAs pai ware shapen o po schelt * to echew to oure egen,
Bot was all of bront gold «po billis & po chauyls, 3696
And, que ag Porrus con plese - in presens of lordis,

4+ MS. wade w; But corrected,

=

Ashmole] THEIR LETTER TO ALEXANDER, 215

Quant tone & torfare may tide - & tent to pino onde.
parm werraid nouir with'vs na wee * pat winschif 40 datwar with
achowid, 3730 ""
Dat bo no was horied in hast ' or had a hoje schamo.
For ilka lered man of lyne * hiya so lethir baldis,
If ho pat for distruceion doun - in-to po dopo fallis,
Bot oure werkie & of oure wonyngestede if 3¢ wald
knawe, S754
T ral doclare gow foe cas ~ clone: by pire writtis,
‘Oure inhabetting, ser, is in uf Dee * & amed aaa sercle, We tire nan
With rynand all aboate oure ent - a endles wattre =
Anil wo ere of females at po fewis * foury & xe Mille, ates
Ani twa bundreth panto * & all of tried Indie, 8739
A pre planke is at a place * to pas & to entre, ‘hares wet
Oure bernes bildis nojt vs by * bot ouir po bourne

wyndia.
Bot zet be-zonde ilka gore + make we va festis, 8742
And thretti dais all be-deno + oure dolités hauntie,
‘Ifany consane par a knaf ~ pan kepix him his modire —1fany ofa have
‘Vij zere with-in ouroselfe + d& seniis hin his fadir, wo hie fathar when
And be scho Iyuér of a lasso ~ acho lengés in ours burgo, har'eouarg te
And is oure thewis of our thede * thryfandly "*

enfourmed. 3747
‘Quon wo to fezt wit oure faes * fares out of wanes,
A hundreth thousand T hope we be - of horses onarmed, wees mise an
Jha Touss in oure Ieile oure lithis to defend, 3750 “7
‘Quoe we repaine with po palme” pan prayses vs oure feria,
And, buske je to oure bondsward - ys batailt to 3cld,
et aall we maynly off po marche mete sow in?armos, — (ret. 648
‘To lithe vs alt if fou limpos * na louyng pou gettis,
For pou wynnes nost bot women * pare-of na worde rysis, 1¢ yow bat ws,
Bot & god graunt va po groo * grote glorio haus wo paf, yee will win se
For po atholiat emperoure wo wafi * cuon at ours will, —fnieiberebg
Bo nozt to eturten with pi eturto ‘to stryuc ve agoyf, Yack
For many lores may pe limpe * slile as pou nozt wenes!"

* Le thousand, * In the margin.

Ashmole] OREAT WANT OF WATER. a7

AH ware jai swollen of po swete * Aaweltid of po eo ; Some othe men
‘Sum in poire harnais for hote * was honest for euirs,
pai went bo waldis & bo wastia > pur watirs ware nano,
And armed bud path att beo * for angwiachis o bestia, (Dag wanes
As colwers & for coltris + & erabbid enakie, 3794
And opire warlasea wild * pat in po wod dulled.
As ai stromand stornoa + stared all paire wedis,
Of gai glitirand gold « glesenyd paire achildis,
Jpai droge farth bo disgust * & drinkles pai spill, 3798 Tw riven
‘Was nouthire waldis in par walke * ne watir to fyndo.
A knigt pat mephall was callid* fand in a cole schado a teh tro
A Titi deysngngs of dow * was droppid fra po beuen, Suter
pot it was fn a holoze stano - & in his helme fillis,
And bringis it to ours bald kyng "to beiggo with his hetéa,
pan Alexander to pis athill - all pus he spekis, 3804
“ pis solayne supe if I sufi * quethire sustene it may Alcanderrofses
he menbris of fe Messedones + & of fe many Persens,
Or I my-telfe sall be serucd > & ui witt with nyfils?”
Sire, zo sall first be refreschid” * faythly he nayd.
Quant? & 36 porisch 1” quod pe prince « “ & pas out o
Tyne? 3809
Quepir enix me list pan to lefe * with hungour & sorowe?” —tratea2
Aad hilds it down out of po helmo * befor hia athils oH. eh yesh ad
all slike a comfurth Fam encloved - for his kynd wordis, “““"*"™*
‘As all fo watir of po word * ware in faire wambs hellid,
Dan ferd pai furth tit a fMlodo * & findis alt po strandis vey emets
Fol of Rodis, ax I redo * rughiote Fan thornes, $815 fete
His folko fol to it fast * & froschely pai deynke,
Bot was na! ronko at to it rafi * at quire raso eftire.
‘Tt was 99 keruand & kono! pan was his kniztis etroubid:
‘Mate for fe bale of paire bestin + &? brist of paimselfo,
For with hia florantis olifants him folowed a thousand, ‘the styante
Of sithid chariotés & soo" & sextone hundroth, 3821 Yee
With cozrres? d& with clone floure = camels and mules,
And ont of nonnbre of nowte * at nodid to his ostis,
1 MS, rio, ® Pat for thas, ? Sie.

ie '.

Ashmole.) ‘SCORPIONS, BNAKEB, AND DRAGONR, 219°
‘Was ail of pe Rode ryze + as Tred first;

Awd pat he cuttic doun clone» & kindils in fyxis,

‘Heo gert tild vp his tentés - be pat terne sydo, 9860. They pith tte
Dost pare a longo quilo to lie dé lachen his eseo.

pe mono our fo montayns * moryly it achynes

Or bo mist drinke any dropo * & pon his dole nezea,

pan comes fareout crouesses- of manykina hewis, 3864 io
Scorpiona pair to ecere + & scalid neddira, Seorpioneand =”
And fai 20 lange & 00 Iaith * & 40 lowd achrikig, 9"
Pat all fe nile of pa eidie + of fo sound ryngie, (Peto

Dragons dryfee doun o drist * fra po dorfo hillie, 3868 eae
With kone carefull crio * and erosti¢ on paire hodie,
Grisoly gapan’l & grim + with gilden broskis,

And flawmos fernent as fyro * floze fra palre ezen 5 with damning ayon,
pai drewe toward oure douth + with dedly blastis, 3872
Sir Alexander & hia ost + was arzed vnfaire, ‘Alexander oor

‘Was pate na froke in po Gla + pat faithly he louea =

‘To bo deuowrid de devoidid » vencuste for euire,

pe kyng pan comfurthid his kniytie all if he care poled :

“ Mi bald baratours,” he kad! « “a-baste nozh joure hertis;

Seis ensampill at my-selfa * & soke 30 na forte, 3873.

Bot hedis haly to my hand * & harmes par-oftire.”

A brand & a brigt schild + bromely be hentis, Hesbes a orord

Feghis froscholy d& fast + with pa fell bestia, pa

Dasches dimgona doun « gouys juin deps woundis,

Blaes of fa serpentis * many sadd hundretli. 5883 poh pen

Jan bildid of his bachelurs * & Lraidis to paire wapet ;

If pai ware mazed & amayd - maynely paim feo3t.

3it was par twenti pat time * tangid to dodo, Este

And pat pe comliest knizt/e - at po kyng ledis; 3887 peri.

Of athit archare ols» as fe buke tellis,

A-bouto a thrutty in fat thode « tharnod paire lyfe.

‘pas many deid of his deuth * as fo boke? tellio,

And him limpia all pe Ioosa + bo po lattire ond. 3891

Now comos a company of Crabbe-fiecho * ax ealues gret, Gre sate
‘MS. farcre. 7 MB. beko,

Ashmole] ‘MICE, BATS, AND RED BIRDS, 321

Hedows horns & hoge & hist in paire tongo Naving thts
Adanttroeay with nH mefins Fam enfourmed.t 3927

‘Before echo drank of pie dam * his douth sho assaild,

And oure kyng with his caxpo * his kmigtis ho gladis,

A3t & tuonti mes of armes + onone scho delyuird, acta cage
Bernese was dist po doth + wit dintis onogtie, 3931

Pan mys out of pis marras * aa any mayf foxes? ‘Then appenr mice
Come furth, & fedd paim in-foro > of po dod corses,

AB at was bitten of pa best « was at a brant dede,

Bos 3it Pai noyed bot a nykid + to nano pat: was ermed,
an floye par by po firmament * of fa foule Backes, sho bats an tarse
‘Als store & nystalvword - a8 pire wedifl dewia 39st “°"""

With mokilt mazten tecth - ns it of mea ware ;

And at viearmed? was * pai asperly wondid,

Of sum fai nyppid fra po nebb - pe nose be po gen,

Of eam fui eto of faire cris - euen by pe rotis, S941 rhe bt the

Sum pai luggid of fe lippin - fe lire fra po chekis,

Bot par bitis, ns fe buke sais « blemoat na knistie,

pan come « fliztir in of fowls - as fast as it dawid, Yeah eae rte
To vise on as vowtres * as vermeoft hewid, 3045 :
aire boukis & par bathire fete * wax of blak anble,

And did bot plaid by pe pepilt » & fed faim on fyachia, bt they enly
Quel hehad voidid pie vermyf - & venoust pat of ynde,

‘Out of Fis perlaouat place * he past with hia ost 3949 esl
Tn-to the boundis of Bactry + pur bildid he his tentia, (Pol, on)
pare rechos wae of redde gold * & many richo gomes;

And clone all put contre * qwen pai his como wist,

pai mett him fall manorly + & mokely reeayued 3953

‘Wath presentes of pirre « & many prowdo giftes,

Anil thretti dayis in pat thede * ho tholes & abidis.

A sertane folke was in pat soile * pat Serres ore callidl, They meet witn
‘And all fo lyndis in put Iand * wit loves? as wolle, how tw have
And vo pire Serres, at I said * Juimin po Somere gedirs, Weagaiy.
And makis pain wedis pur-of to were for wintris blastie,

4 MS. Inenfowrmel. * MS, fuses, —* yn bn the maryin,
“ Slo; read peratoas, —* MS, Jorys, altered to leves.

Ashmole] ALEXANDER GLAYS PORTS. 223

Sire Porrus with a proude swend * him of fo pan strikis Pores sites
So snello at he saatits with * nove snaypid him for euine, teint weeny,
pan kastis vp 4 kone erie” po kniztce out of ynde, 3996 ~
‘For ho was dased of fe dint * & half dede bim semyd.
‘Porrus, os o princes suld * persayued par Intis,
‘Turnes him toward his tulkis* de titely rohetis.
Sire Alexander him ayises - & his nando takis, #000) siemate dare
‘As bald barmtour & breme - his brand vp ho liftis,
‘With bathe his handis in-to fo brayne * his basanet be

dleuys, 4002
And ho fallis doun fey + & fynes in pat stound. 4002"
be popill of wer Porrus « quon pai [him] pas ease, 4003 mH tnitans cone
WA of manere of mon * maynly pai fizt.
* AJ wrichos 1" quod po walo kyng ' & wisoly he speki,
@ Efir po doth of our duke *quat deynes jowo to stryuo} Atersnder re
‘Weto 30 wele," quod pe weo * “ be werrmyours lazes, >
Spat quien fe gourrnoure is gane ~ pan is pe gomes wasti.” — [vole]
Sine, it is botter for to bato * & oft po bent failo, 4009
pan so pis rowthe on zotr? renki +d reft be zor! gudis.”
“Sirs, blynes of jour bataile » & bowos to zoure landis ; bat erate item
Zoure formas & goure fmaunchos + I frely yow grant; thet revere
For 36 bane cockid for jour kyng *3¢ sall no care suflire!”
And pan callid him of kneso * &kest doun puire armes.
pai come to pis conquirour * comen® him os driztin,
pan sett he sales vp of ® silko « & sacrifece makis. 4016
Sire Porn, a8 him wele folt « he proadely enteria, Doras ls borled,
And alt po foy i po £2 * d& hove a Git onde,

Decimus octauns passus Alexandrt.

aires he furtls with his crlis~ & cntris afi Tle, lesser commen
Quare fir Exidracee as Ermets *inhabet in caus, oymnomopliats,
A progenis of pore mofi = pat nouir pride hauntis,
And yit pe gentill genosophis » pain in po gost callin,
Ts pare na bost faint ebland «ne bataijle vayd, 4029
* Read our, * In the margin,

Ashmole] THE DANK DRSERT AND MOT RIVER. 225

“Stang ‘to deo," quod pai pan +“ bot cuire dure perme
at wo desiro 3ow bedene * & pan do ve na mare.”
Be dristin, sirs, Tama duke ‘ dedclike my-selfo, whlch be cana
Forpi vnde{d]lynes to dole + I dowe be na ways” 4058 ©
© Now sof it worthis,” quod pa wees * “ wricho, for to
dic,
Quarto hizis pon fra half to half * & oll pis harmo
wirkist” 4060
"Sire, be my erouno,” quod po kyng* “po cause at I trot 103
haue
Is parly gods prouidens + predestayned it is before.
e x0, wole seldom ix pe soe - with him-selfo turbild ——Averanter ays,
Bot with pir walowand windis ; + my witlware to rifte, wy sink
‘Bot a-nopir gast, & nozt my gast * par-of my gust lettis ;" rol i
And wendis a-way with pat word + & wemles pain louya. vigher spirit”
fe secuntt day with vp son » ha with his sowme nojea,
‘Quare pire Imagis ere put Arculions * had in an Te roeid. My tne at
pe tane was at athiH gold’*of siluir fe tothire, 4069 Mwoues,
Twolfo cubettis fra po topp doun * & twa was po brode.
‘He maile his pepit paim to perse - to proue pam with-in,
Quethire pai ware hologhe or hale « & hale he parh fynis,
Saze pain thike purze-out * & aithire thrill stoppis,
And fillis pam florentis - a fyfene hundreth. 4074
ait drafe he pine with his dukis « in adeyne entris, iene ies
A wileom wast & wild » & wondirly colde, 4076
As mirke a5 any mydnijt - quef po mone failes,
pat vnnothes ken may a knizt * to se to his fers.
Fifty days be dosert * he foundis with his folke, 4079
‘Ti ho come blescnand of a brym * was welland bate, — te nest tnten
And of p> forrs halfo of pe bourne * was wemen oft hora, “*"™**
Pat frely faire ware of faco * bot foulo ware clothid.
Sur boris dll of brent gold * brondis in faire hands, and tnd there
Sum bataiHlaxes & with bowos * a of brigt wiluir, = “™™"*™™
For bmso is nane with pa bonds * ne no bige Tren ;
Noneuire na berne pum eblund «as po buke telli, 4086
ALEXANDER, a

Ashmole] awrittn1ovs ProPLE AND nuTNocEROMES 87 OU

Ad hadaa stir jam to hele “bot hidis of beatin — piopwen tnt
‘His seguis sesid of fam sum * & to himeelfe bro3t,
Ana ho pati askid pam of ynde * & at pam enquires,
‘Quat was paire viaance in pa vales - “ ser, venyso5,” pai ho bre iy haste
said, 4122
Slike as we haunt in par holis with hunting in tymes.”
fen ford fai furth nll in fero - & to fild comys,
Enyfi to pe howed of Eumnure «as I first rekend. 4124
pare fand Fai bornys & bridis - & all balenakid, Ts fod net
At was resild as a reach * & roghe as a? bere. =~ >
Zit was po custom of par kindo * as fe clause tellis,
Als wele to bide in fe bourne * as of fo brale lande, who sre snapiir
‘none as pai of Alexander + & off his ost waites, 4120 “"
‘Dal flee as fust in-to flode * & to po founco plangid.
“pan ford pai furthe bo pe frithis » fiftene dais,
And tale willid into @ wod + wos falt [of] wild rey ameton
peo iobay
eis ‘pe romance pam callie; 4133
And fai sssombild of oure soggis pot pai ware eone

drop.
all eoxti days with hie saggia ho ost Lo disort,
‘Till ho was won in-to a word * ol of wast fildia, 4136 se. tox yea
‘Quaro nonthire holtis was no hilles ~ no no higo (IiJoggis,
Bot alt as plansy & ns playf + no a playf tablo.
‘Even at po ellonynt houre * or euynsange tyme, 4139
Quen he had tild vp his tentés* turbila po wolkeri; A grestoterm
po somblant sorowis of po soilo * & po sof wadis, Ze
je werd wannes at n wap * & po wedire gloumes.
pan folt a fist & a fire - betwene pe foure wyndis, Boor wins ow
Aquiloun & Affrike & owrus fo thrid, a1 S"*
‘Vulturnus pe violent - pat voidis dour pe lenys, (Pol. 110.1
he south de of alt aydis * sully pai mete,
A brome blast of pa bent * ax po bnke tellis,
‘Dat alt paire tents it to-terid » & turned donn fo hallia ; stn dextry
oar pauylyons of pirre * paire payntid clathis. 414g"
4 MS, inserts abr, struck throvgh, 7 M&A brome a blast,

ae

is 4

‘Ashmole ALEXANDEW'S LUTTEN TO DINDIUUE, 229

pan knelis doun oure conquirour * & callis oft his driztins, Atecnder prays,

Giffe path siluir & so & ¥sons at prim castis, 4184

‘Vuneth his? prayer was past * quen parid att pe cloudis,

And stint was all pe stikiH stormes * in # stand-quilo. sd he tore,

pen rade he in aray ~ remowis his otis,

‘To po grote flode of Gangem * & graythid far his tents, Alex. and Dind.,

His bernes blisohis ouir po bourne = & of po banko 2030.11? new te

Qaare thro woos ina wraa > wolk poi allano, 4190 iel"tag pint,

Sire Alexander bad afi athil * aske peth of yndo, PF

‘Quaso pai ware, quothin pai wore * & of quat kind. pear

And ui him swiftly swarid + with a swote stenyn,

“We ere bald Bragmenys * pat neuir bale tho3t.” eho aay they are

‘pan list pe lord on his lyfe « haue with pat ledis spoken, “™™**

Mijt he have won oufr po watir * for wounding of bestis,

As seo-builo && serpontis~ & soukand locerhos, 4197 pret. 24)

Bathe eddirs & ascres * & atterand wormes,

ire Cocatricesse in ereuessis * par kindiles pai brodo, the rteerts nut

Seorpions many? score * scautand neddirs ; 4200 one ana

‘And allway bot in angwisch ¢ + as pe bulk sala, ae

‘And saue pe Tolite of Tuly * pai Towke in pu strandis, —sutyand Angus

Quen bo? persayued be na poynt * at he pas mist,

pan wns he sary in pat sithe - & sadly he pleyned,

Callid to his carpentars * & of his kid wrijtis, 4205

Bad make him boun ata braide - a barge at! of redis, Alexander nas

Quen it was done at his diuyse «& drajen ouer with “™ 6"
hidis,

Pared & parreld at his pay ~ pickid & taloghid, 4208 Cael aki

ban bowes parin a bachelere * to bragmeyn ho wendis, ae

‘To pe soucreayf site of fe soile * & aosid him pis piatit, ““"*

1 “T, pat kyng am of kyngie - & crounod of loriis,

Alexander pe aire - of Amono oure driztin, 4212 “Aimar,

And of fe quene Olimpades * pat Iam of eprongof, King Dindimus,

‘To fe, ser Dindyn, of pi dese * dities of oye.

Sen wo chapid out of childhode - & cheued to elilire,

§ Atwre the tine.
* MS, Voneth is his; with jx underlined, and his bore the
tine, * In the margin. * Read august,

Ashmole] CUSTOMS OF TIE BRAILMANS 231

ou prayes vs to pi! person ‘a pistilt to* write 4217

Of all oure lefyng’ & oure lazos - & oure land techis ;

‘Quare-of fo proces to proue ~ vapossible it were, (ha.

And if we did it to dome * it dose 3ow na gude, 4250

For pi tent is alt on terrandry * > & tourment of armes,

In boot & in bobans - in bataills & stryuys,

A. ceaft till oure condicions * at a-cordis bot lititt ; ‘Tour customs

For simpilnes & surquitry * wscwis nost to-gedire 4254 wm

Bot leue 30 nogt wo be to hego - no hauten of wil

To steryfi or to aturtyfi * or aterid to enuy 5

A partie of oure propertes * & of oure pure thowis os wok Deals
it ell I und sow to say ~ eon 30 mo sozt haus, 4258 rick nol

rradge tolling
1%

| Decimus Nonus passus Mexandri.

ine, we po Bragmeyns blode * birdis & othire, Wears torly
A lowly lyfe in oure land «we lede, and a clene. awd
All ydelatris in oure Ie * ere vitirly devoidid,
& to no syft vndire sof * asont wo vs neuire, 4262
AH fut ouire mesure is to mokill - emell we declyns, Wet sim
And nouthire couct we na corne * bot pat vs kind

Teues,
Dat ia po filling* of fode * pat ilk fleach askin, 4265
And par-te suffirnd oure-selfe * & sobire as a maydet.
‘Hald we no hors for na barow * no na hornod etottis,
Ne nauthire sondire we po soile * no na sede sawia, We plough wot.
Soko we nouire no sustinanco ‘to eauo with ours lyuys. “*"*™*
Sef we na eaynes in pe 8eo * no soea wo na fisohis, ‘We flah not.
Ne nonthire hunt we no hauke * no hont we na fowlos, wehunt not
‘Bot siko an growis of po gronde * witi-onton gomes — i¥vi.74)

werke. 4272
Anil pat wo fede vs with in-fera * & fillis fait onre tables,
A dayntefull diete * pat damage ve neuine, Be snicona

* In tha margin. MS. inserts pls, atrucch throngh.
* Ms. p, alt, to terrandry.
MS. ting, corr. to Alling.

Ashmole.) SUIPLIcITY OF THR SHARMAN. 223,

‘Bot watir of a wale wett * or of a wild bourne, 4304 wo sinx ore

And pat sullepe sine - at sett alt pe warde,

Tn him we lely! beloug » & in na Iago ellis.

Tw all oure digans of daios - fat duke we comend, wanton

Welo wenand in anothire wonl * to won ay o-lyue,

And quat as pertenys to na profe~ vs plese nozt at lestef, Ales. and Dint,

No mokills? mollis no3t oure mouth * bot mesure owe *™*
wordis, 4310

‘Quen us we speke any spech * we speke ai pe treath, joe ate

And pan is still os « stane * d stirs ib na ferryn, c

Riches no no rede gold * rose we fam nouthire, We are not

Bot ay voide of enuy ¢ & of rayne tho;tis, 4314 Sem”

Ts for na bene rs cblands - biggir pan anothire,

Of land no of lor{}schig * bot all clike simple.

be pourrt of oure persofis * for plonto we hald, 4317,

be quilke* is part vs, all fo pake * be parcels euys.

Ts for na brag in oure bondis * ne boringt of armos, Wo tormke

Bfo}t ay perpetuall pes + pist in oure landia, 4320 "™""™

Ne nouthire Iugement no InyHt * ne Iustion of aire 5

For dove na douth par no dere * to dome to be callid.

Ne custome in oure contro * contraria cure lages,

Is far na mercy no metho ‘in onremarcho vayd; A324 Weshew ne

And I eall quethe pe forqui * & quat is po cause : bei

par does na modiriof o-mys* na mercy to crave, Nene have to

For auyrice & errogannce * & alt we devoide, {rot 73)

And to nu licherous Iuetes - leoue ve * oure mombris,

A-vowtri no na vayne glorio * no na vice hauntis, Rip isbn sel Diy

No neuire to-plizt worth a porlo * to-ponyscht be-fore. we iu tonta

Fyni wo na faute in na froko- pat vs emange dacllis,

For ay off reson & of rizt * rewelle wo oureslfe. 4332

Ne sezos na sogye of oure sode * sodanly of lyue,

For pe aire within oure habitacle * is ai ya-corumpid,

Nouthire to toly ne to taunile * transmitte we na vebbis,

‘To vermylion ne violett «ne variant littis, 4336

ees ne

Ashmole] ‘DIXDIMOS REPROVES ALEXANDER 235.
And othire sertis wee sco? * fat solace oure hertis 5

First, fo faire firmament * fichid full of sterres, 4372 Alex. and Dind,
Jpo redo 208, queft he ryaes * & rynnye in his aencle, y/ wectmrveste

at all fo land with his lomo * lewis & cloros ; on
De playne purpory geo * fall of prose fischia, 4375 stim

For tide ne for tempost - it touchia nozt oure kythia,

Ne neuire sondres oure soile * bot sesis at po Lrinkis.

Vicesimus passus Alexandri.

nothire mirthe ia in May * pat va maste ioyes,
fo faire floryseht filda * of floures & of horbya,
Qaare-of fo broth as of bawmoe * blawis in oure noose,
Pat ilk eonsitife eaule * mast sovorly delyte, 4381
As in po woddia for to walke * yndire walo achawis, ‘We love the
Quon all is Jokin ouire with Iouys * as it wane Littit "tho. 13
heuen.
pail hane we liking’ to lithe = pe late of pe foules, sand the songs of
je awojing of po swift wyndo * & of fo swote wollis,
pe kind of pire customs - we kepe euire-maro, 4386 Alex and Dini,
pe qailk, I hope, sev, po to hald - vnbaleaom it ware. = > *™
Tf pan will chalang’ paim be chaunce ~ cheso if po likla,
For here is written all fi wilt» & wo na writh serue,
As pe tenour of jour titi is oure techis Thane we soe aon
4390
ure dodis & of oure diseiplyne « a dele of pain aythir;
And of pi lare w TitiBt-quat - likis me to write,?
For pe sothe of oure solitade » wilt serue pe stille aftir.
Sire, je hang lajt now of late - within a lite zeres 4394
Alt Europ & Asic « & Auffrik pe mare > -“
pat weising’ burdo sufficiant - pofe s03t 30 na ferns,
Bot ay mekil wald have mare * as many man spellis ;
be soft, for sake of zour syii * sesys his lizt, 4398 Thon peerenent
Be-cause of joure countise « to elym to his bounds. shining.

' Written adore the Tine.
* ME. fere write; with lore struck out,

Ashmole} ‘THEY SACRIVICE TO Tors, 237

Tn bigging? of burgis + & bilding of toures;

And quon 30 aitt in zoure salo = with syria & dukiz, Ye ihe tw have.
an have 320 soggis ow to seruo * sowmes cnogh. bacon
pail aso Mare at a moghe * 30ure mawis 30 fi, 4434

With bakin moto & with briddis - bolnos joure paunchos,

‘Stuftia 20 gour stomake * with stullis & of wynes,

pat vnethie haldis, be 3¢ hoo * pe hide of jow halet

‘Quat dewis sow pan pire diatie » & alt pis dero fode,

Joure sowping in vnseson * youre surfete of drinkis,

Bot settis zow in-to sekenes * of sor-lepy kyndts, 4440 trou77
And gues jow dio or jours day * many dro3e wyntir?

‘pan 30 couett & crane * castels & rewmes,

And thristia eftir at thingés * at in zoure tho3zt rynnes,

Taspre, Tawels, & gommes~&Tottand pele; 444d

And all sall Jeno sow at po laste * & in-to lnire worth |

And maydese zit, for alt your molle - pat modire ws! cried, Ye are bot

pat fourmed pe flode & pe flynt * & po faire lyndin =

‘And, 08 I brefe it in pis buit » po bragmeyns takens — We wrpim yur
Surmontis alt zour sapientix * & oure assomy thowin.® =
Auvd opir werkis of wast + is wrogt in joure landia, 4450 Ater.ant Dina,
As, graffis garnyschit of gold *& gilten tombis, wat te
‘Tharghis to thrawyn in « quen 3 pra worthe, wate:

Sum of siluir, sum of sipins « surn of sere games.

pus make 3e vessels in vayfe * to 3oure foule corses,

‘To crom in 30ure cariouns - pat kind zw defendis,

pat ilk slymand slugh - quen 30 ere slide hyne, 4456

And will no3t suflire fe orth «to hnwe at hire fallis.

For iolite of Iupitir * ze ioyen vp templis, ‘Teme teaptes
With Iinagia of zoure ydolatry * alt within payntid ; *
Symolacris vp sett - of Seropis & othir, 4460

And slecs ino fo sacrifis - many eure bestia,
Quen 3¢ have tildid vp-om [top) * gour trouthles gods,
Bum of gold, sum of glas - sum of gray marbil,
Bum of Iatoun & of lede & sume of ligt siluir, 4404
‘And sum ore tiffid at of treo * & eum of ty pared,

* Read ow. —* M3. twethowin, ait, to thewir,

Ashmole} = various SACRIFICES TO GREK oops, 239,

For marcure was mansla;t * a mammlere of wondis, Mang mast at
3e graith him to be gousnoure = & god of fo tonge.

And Aroales has aythize arme - in his awen wande, noe.
For ps xij wondirfall werkis « ho wrest with his handis, oecie wee,
‘Mars for his mainterris - d& for his many weris, 4502

‘Him brefe 30 for his* baratris - po breste to defend.

Damo Taro was a iottir » & joyned fal of ire, eae
For pi scho bodia to po hort * & haa it to seme. Bi oe oe,
Bary? ho was brayno-wode' for bobbing of wynes, 4506 ioe
Forpi [ps] ewire & po awalow * pat swierw ho kepis,

Cupido has po eustodi * & cure of pe mawo, Capit over the
For ho® was countus & cursid * vnolone of him-eclfo.
Serenon is sustenour * & sire of pe wambe, 4510 Res enseiiy

For hom was quartirs of qweto * vmqwile out of nombre, """
Dame venue pe a-v[erJous* for vices opon nijtis,
‘Ts pomsestour & principale * of all pe prene menbris.
pos itk cantel# of zoure core * 36 catt parh driztins, 4514 Alex and Dina,
Deufi}is it in-to duesses - & opine donels many. me
Of Mk gobet of pat glott » 36 a god make,
And lenes nozt as mokill as a lym ~ jour liches of to
stand.
Zechuue na hoping'in fat hathill-at on igosittis, 4518 ve ster wim
‘How he jour nase & zoure nebb * & alt of noxt cried,
Bot pinkis on pir othir thofis + & pam as thrall seruys,
And sacrifice to ilk a seggo * a sere-lepy gifte.
‘To Mars in hit mynstir «at maynteines po worls, 4522 Repu vene
3e brings him a wild bare * for his wale dedia.
bo carons of a fatt kid pat earayne is worthe,
Jat bring: 3¢ to ser bacus ~ to bere vp his drinke, to Bacetous, # Bd
‘And Tupitir pat Toglour «sum Tape bos haue®; 4526
‘A bullok or a fell bule «is brozt to his temple.
And Tuno fo Ientilt « for ioy of his pride, tote
3e presand hire a pakoke - with pennes of af Auagell, :

2 pnd et ers err at gig bg
-) Bost Bay, 1525, Tn the margin,
“M3, a riows, be. ha hans, with be stench ent.

— &

Ashmole] {SERIES OF THE DRAMMANA

As sarquitry & sacrilag' * & othire sore tecchos ;

Constrone 30w if-to cauatise - to clame alt pe wend,

To rayme & to robry - to rayme mun pairs godis, 4563

‘Wailaway to wriches - & wa is 3ow in erthe ;

Herefore je hinge mob in hell » quen 3¢ er hethon
.”

an was fe kyng of his carpo * crabbid vnnfaire,

For he was spetous of speche * & spisod his driztins ;

Quett he bad lokid oft fe lyne - ho lappid it togedire,’
And notid to him a-nothire new - pat now next fologhies,

Hicesimus primus passus Alexandri.

a keynge crouned of kyngis * o londis at othire,
Ser Alexander pe athelost + of Amofs childire,
And of po queno Olimpades * pat I was of geten, 4572
To po boat of bragmoyna * blissing & hele?!
Siry, be pis sothe at 30 eay * of all acgeis oute
30 may bo sett be zow-eelfo * for ayn doo 30 nenire!
Bot sothely slike a simpilnes -as me my saule demys,
It comes bot of acustournos * & of na clene thewos,
And owpir 30 geste at 30 be gods * for youre gud werkis,
Or deynes with oure driztina * for® pat we pam dere hald.
3e eay 30 awe nouire soile * ne na cités biggia; 4580
How sald 30 tello withouten toles * or any tild rere
Is per non Instrumentés of Iren in all pat Ile founden,
Ne nakin motalt of to make * messelyne ne othiry,
For-quy ax bestis of po bent - je growe of fe grouys,
Refeta jow with refuse - of rotis & of herbys; 4585
pe same wyse dose a wolfe « pat wantis of hia pray ;
‘Quen he has faute of his fleach - he fullis to pe soile !
‘Lo, if me list into joure land * with all my ledis entro,
Quat wisdoiis at sour wricchidnes - or witt mit I lero 1
De, lode, is litilf to loue * pat Iouys ay in sorowe, 4590
Bot mekill mare he is menskid « pat in a mono duellia,

* MS. to gedire, * MS. helee, * MS, inserts we, underfined.
ALEXANDER ®

trot 9]

‘Te shall dwell

An formant.

‘Alex, and Dind.,
pM,

Alex. and Dind,
pest

© Aleaander, 90%
of Ammon,

te Dindimas,

greeting.
Aral herve, 6
inre very goad
men,

‘Alex. and Dind.,
Dede

‘Te have no ime

A bungry wolt
‘at aah earths

Ashmole] AN CHANGES AccoRnING TO MIs AGE. 243

‘Ooir® wild ie many ways wrniste «as po wedire akiftés ; bags im 3
For « clore cloudles day « mas a clone mynde ; ay 3
Quen it is? brist all a-howto it blithis ourehertis, 4624 [aM rai,
Anil be par gold in oute gate * or any gud etanes,
Woe do bot foules it with ours fote*va fayna it na more,
And quon it walows * & wannos alt oure thostres,
et ore wo toghid to & fra * bo turnyng of eldrie. 4628
For quilk a frok is bot a fafit + pan i he first eimple, stan change
And quon he prouss fra pat prike « pan ishe proud-lokid, y"™"™'"*
Metis off pe medi morke + & paro his mynd stablis.
‘Mekill yariannce of vortas - enveronis oure exules, 4632
For we ere fetid fnit faire - & has oure fyue wittis. ‘Wo ase our five
Ano, oure ijt with to see > & suuour at pe naxee, Sanh eros
Anil ane to tast & to tonche * & pen oure twa ori, = aig
Of all po frutia on po fold “wa fango at oure wik, 4636
Bath venyson & volatile + & variand fischea, Blox. sad Dint,,
If so mefreyne zow parfm * it falis bot of prido won ke
Or ellis jow writhis with jour wele + for 30 na welth

hae! 4639
Be many opynion I profe * fat pare ix zonre tecches, — Ysurdoetnae
‘Mare fonden opot foly © pan fcchid of reson.” a
Sone as fe kyng of po kith « po clause hai devysid,
He settix him doun full sobirly - & sendia him anothire.

FT, sir Dyndyn po deriest * at duells in pis Tle, ~pnarmeato
hho beat of fo bragmoyns * of bounte & of thowls, 4045 mc"
‘To Alexander, pat aire * pat erles alt po werd, ‘Alex. andl Dini,
he souerayno sire of af po soilo * ealus & ioge, Ome
Sire, wo erd nogt in clementis * ns cutrmare to duel,
Bot aa qua pas a pilgrymage * fra Paryech to rome 5
‘To othire hames ts hizo * quen wo ere hothen voided,
And in fo oltes of ey pati eitt wena langire, 4651
“Vee we nano Epocrise «no ire, no no theftis,

Ne nothive gesse we va gods “ne grym at ours dri

For many scerties we mot - pat sysed alt pe werd

And wrogt po will of ilk we * to wale as him likil, (ol, wo 4
* Or 05, Ia the margin.

Ashmole] «ALEXANDER BUILDS A MARBLE PULLAR, 215

Tso na godlaik in gold » bot grefe to po saule, ‘The more gota
For po fastir it fallia of w freko * po fastir he conottié.” tmoe nwa”
Sire Alexander alt at ese -avisis him of pis pistill, 4690

And wayues? to hint a-nopire writt * at i) Pa yap Min sot Otek

spellin
4] * Hize kyng with-out comparison of kyngis alt opire,
‘Of all lordis fo lord + fat lowss vndire hounn,
‘Sire Aloxander, po airo * of Amon ouro driztif, 4694 Phe
‘Lo pe, er Dyndyn of pi doso - pin ditios I write. to Dinan,
In slike a side of po eaile + 3our-solfo is in-closid, ‘Alex. and Dind,
May welo na wee, if ho wald * wy to zour kithia, x wrsnperncan
Forpi enhabeto 3¢ in angwysch ‘ at jour vnthankisy = “™* 7
And ali joure lofing & joure lare® at 30 #0 loude prayeo,
Te comis bot of a kyndnes - & of na clone thewys, 4700
And als 30 fonde may na forpire * to hizoh joura name,
Bot pyned par in a parroke * inparkid as bostis, Yeare tkewretsb
pus pers to pir presons * pat ay in payn lengis, beh
And he pat segia to vs sage" jo bot.asott ca, 4704
Be pe? grace of my god? - mist T zour grand entre,
T sald jow ken to be kniztés’ & clothe 3ow with armes." ‘Asante,
an pizt oure prince in pat place - a pelare* of marble, Zui wore a
Quare-of a tulke with « toile * pis titi yp he wrate, — ™srefmartle:
Sam langage of Jatine » & lettres of yude, 4709
‘Sum was graithid o grew - pat pus to-geilire spekis ;
“T, Philip sof fe fell kyng - po fondore of grece,
‘Sire Mloxander po athill « p[a]t aze alt po barbres
Eltir pe day & po dethe ‘of Dary & of Porrus, 4713
ye

Dus fore I folozed haue my faes ;” - & here a fit end, Rene
| Vicesimus secundus pagsus Alexandri.

"ow gare ho fra gangafi ‘ and alt his ging? eftir, (Fal, wh 8)

Fondis forth with his folke * & a fild entris,
© Or waynes ,
# Mb oth Be alee fe ead te werd

waderlined ; Bot be robal
be jesenderiined;, Bot be pois probably intended

Ashmole.) THE TREES OF THR SUN AND MOON, aT

And lange was his odd Jome - fo lentho of a zerdo.

With pot comands oure kyng his kni;tis him to! take,

Anil poi wasillid him sone * bot ho na soggy drodis,

For nouthire fondis he to flee * no na fens make, 4753

Bot stude & stored as a stott + d& etirred he na forthire,

pan callis to him pe conquirour + a comly maydefi, Auselicens
Bad hire bo brost bo-fore pe best « & bare to bo nakid, said maid.
And ho be-held of pat hend * & hissis as a neddiro,

Ho wald hauc stmngild hire strozt + no had stiff men

|

ben 5 4708
| He-wald hauo schowid of pat schono * had nost moon st ites wg
| Lalden,

And to fo prince pauelion prestly him ledo.
‘Qeen ho had forliod his fH * on his foulo schapp,
Ho gor paim byndo him at a braid & brent him to antbamt.
poudire. 4762
pen rado he fra pat reuir * & remowid his ost
Tntill a bmde bent fild + & bildid vp his tentis.
pare fande he findis on pat lande po? lenthe of a spere,
Andi pai ware frett fult of frate = pe fairest of pe werde.
Teware to tern any tong to tell * of pa trens Kinde, 4767 Alsander comes
For pai wald sett with po son * & with pe enn rise, aun aud Moon,
Fra morewane to fe mydday * merely pai spring’,
And pan diacende pai doun * as pe day passis. Tiles war out
Te, pis was a wondirfull werk * bot gods awen wilt,
pat pai sald wax 00 & wane * within a wale time.
For, fra it drozo to pe derke * ay tilt it dawid eftir,
Tt was bot vacant & voile * as yanite it were, = A774 rot st
pe kyng in his caban - with his knigtie he ligis,
Tatand out of his tents - & pe trees waitis,
A bad a berne ofa bob * bring bim a nappil ; piano e
att bowis furth @ bachelere * his bedingo to f2; 4778 su spple te slate,
And he was sodanly sesid - & slane with a sprete.
Wah pat enverronns aH fo valo a voice fra po heuen,
Said, “qua a0 fangieo pis frate * bees fey in a stoundo!"
* In the margin, 7 MA a fo, but corrreted,

Ashmole] AUPRARANCE OF A BASILISK. 20

‘Nose throtila with po thik airy * & thrango in pare audoa,

pai labourdo? vp a-gayh pe lift + af cllonen dais, 4814 ree,
& quen pai couert to po crest * pen clerid pa welkyfi ;

‘po achaftio of po echiro eon schirkind po clouiis, —syttteam sting
And gods glorious gleme * glent pam emaunge asi7

pan past pai doun fn pat pike - in-to a playa launde, — They come tow
‘Qunre all po gronde was of gols* & growen full of Tmpis,

A cubste lenth, sis pe clause + cald was po maste,
‘Quare-of po feloure & pe frute «as fygis it sawourd,

Pare fand pal Revera,? as T rede * riechest of pa werd, sik cote
of it ware Toly Tardan + or Iacobs wolt 5 4823

‘Was neafr no mede ne no milke * go mild vndire heuen,

Ne cliffe of eristall eo clere + at euire god fourmed.

A hunilreth daies & » halfe + he held be pa playnes,

‘THB ho wax comon {iH u cliffe at to pe cloudis semedl, Tr wmeton
fat was so staire & so steps * fo store me tellis, 4898 ““?
‘“Mijt par no wee bot with wyngis * win to pe topp.

Zit fauil he clouen purge fo clynt - twa crasid? gatis, —withtwo pat,
Ano to fo noke of pe north - anothire to pe est, ne north and
Sire Alexander him a-vises * &¢ all him awondres, — “"*
And trowid it was wro3t > of na lode werkis, 4833

“With pat stairis he forth po atye ~ pat strezt to pe est, Thereooutwant,
And senefi dais with his mefi « he s03t be pa costis.

And on pe nztent day » eftire po prime,

A Basilisk in n browo * breis pain vivfuire, 4837 jes bas
A otragtill & a stitho wormo * stinkand of eldo, (Pol es)
And is 20 bittir & so brome ~ & bicchid in hinveclfo,

pat with po otinko & fo atronth * ho etroyou nozt allano,

‘Bot quat ho eettiv on his aizt* ho elacs in a stonde,

‘He vemons in po vaward * valiant kniztis, 4842

‘Maintira out of Memedono * of Modo & of Porsce 5

pai ssye doun nodanly ~ slanc of paire blonkis, who slays many
‘Lo stop & to stand-dode * & in po strote liggia, aa

“

4 ees ‘MS, babounte.
Written margin, aa a evbatitute Jor Hiucr.
* MS. traside, + dn the margi) “tale

| Ashmole.) THE HOUSE OF THE SUN, 251

‘Twa thousand be tale & fyuo trow hundrothe. 4879 1s ssoo espe
| And pai ware sett 20 in souto! * of safors fyno,

Dut of pe noblay to nousn - it neyd any cristed.

‘Pore logis po lous kyng late of a ened,

‘Vndine pis maste mountayne * & of pa morno oftir,

Pare setts he furth of sere gods +a eelle nounbre, 4884 dteanter oem
‘pat. he honowrs & his ost « & clire ilk sane, nee
Syne tas ho with him titly » his twolue tried prineo[s),

Gas him vp be degreces * to pe grete lawe, Hisenmenas
‘Trenes to ps topwant * pat touched to pe eloudis, 4888

at he mizt lend par o-loft * & waite eftir wondirs,

‘Vp-on po cop of po cliffs * a closure he fyndis, the topo
A palais, ane cf po precioussest *& prondest in erth,

A bild, as pe buke sais « with twa brads jatis, 4892

And seventy wyndows beside * of aevelepia werkes,

Dp gatie ware of zeton gold - zarkid of platis, ‘with gator of gold)
be windows on pe selfo wyse * as po writ schews*; ‘Dhol 8
“Anu pai ware coruen full clone * & elustrid with gemmes,

‘Stizt staffolt of stanes » stagis & othire. 4897

Zit was a mynatir on po mounte * of metall as penobill, aie stmpte. |
‘Vinbegildid with « garden * of golden vynes, pin rose
Was chatrid fuit of chefe frate * of charbocle stancs,
With-outen mesure emaunge - of margrite grete. 4901

his hame a4 houes on pis hill : was in po hizo est,

Forthi 3it hedirto it hat + pe hous of tho sof, Dik Gatien
It was 00 precious a place * & proudly a-tired, "
bare was na place it a pore « bot paradyee selfe, 4905

‘J Dicesimus tertius passus Alexandr.

fires furth ser Alexander - in-to pis athifl temple, Atexander enters
With Coulus & with cleopas * & othire kidd princes, “*“""*
‘And fand a borne in a bedi * bawnand alae, gabhaee!
Ano of Je graciouscat gomes «fat oulre god fourmed. “***
All Iomed of his letere * pe logo as of houct, 4910

' Orwonte, — * Ta the margin, 2 Substituted for schin.
* Snbstiznted for wanes; vee line adore,

Wve

Ashmole] ‘THE PATI THNOUOR ‘THE Woon, 253
at has pe surname of fe sof * & of be mone alls; hear ote

pat is to mene, bot of pe mone * & mizt has to apeke, wil your ter ™

And tell po trewly olf fo text * quat tide salt here-cftir 1”

“ 3is, by my crouns,” quod pe kyng ~ & kyndly was
foyed, 4946

“ pis word L wald, be 30ur wilt * nozt all po werd leuir !" “Yeu gtatye=

“ Ser, waite at pou be wemles > for womafi touching’,

han may 3¢ lenely off path loko * & lesten jour wirdis, (ol. 59)

For be 30 pure of fut plist * 30 may pis place entre,

‘pat is fo sotte of hat sire * pat aott alt po word.” 4951

« Ser, Lam clone of pat oraft * I knaw wole say-telfo,

Bo pou oure gide to po greaye * apofi gods name,”

With pat bownes him pat borne & fra his bed ryves, The god rise

Cled alt in clone gold * kirtilt & mantiB, =n

A grym grisely gome * with grote gray lokis; 4956

Al glitered pe ground * for glori of his wedia.

“ Sirs, 30 pat will has to wend * 30ur wapens douoidis, apn

Nymos of jour nothinglouo * & nakens youre legis, hinarms,

‘Pesan, pancere, & platis aH to 3oure preue clathia,

Topon 4 isserand > & radly me folows |" 4961

‘po kyng at his comaundment - with his kuigtis him

spoilis,
Paltis of to po selfe serke * senture & othire, Hy Alene,
‘Takix with him ser tolomew * ai of hia princes, 4964 wou
And Antiet, af athill duke « & eftir him wendis.
pai ferd furth oll in fere * pir foure all to-gedire 5
bbe de st was par Indisman ~ po lord & his knigtis Perse ney,
‘Went purge a wale wodo! * was wondire of to tell,
As it ware higtild im pat hill - with handia of aungele,
‘For pare ware tacchid vp treos > pe triest of po werd,
A hundreth fote to fe hede * po hist was & mare,
Lyke olenes out of lebany « & lores so grene, 4972 emtnining aliens,
‘With sichomures* & sipresses * & scdrisso o-blande,
par trekild doun of pa - teres of iemmes,
Boyland out of po barko * bawmo & mire, «4975

Here follows an erased, * MS. sichonrmes,

———

Ashmole.) ALEXANDER ASKS HIS PATE. 255.

Saket Gs) with sudayee "endl in gmake: Tana ese
And mast-quat ay po monetree * pure mist of hive
kynde,

‘Quon it kithis vs any carpe * pe contrario apekis ;
For echo bezynes all in grow * & endis in ynde, 5012 The Moone
And pue bo twinlopi tongis - telt pai oure windia.” Lote!
‘an koolis doun po" conquironr * yn-to pe cald orthe,
Anil aithire bole eftir bolo - blithly he kissis,
And Jog if ho suld with fo thra + of alt po thodes wete, Aleanter aks i¢
Tf be suld nieve agayf to Mesmodon * quare hia modire tees”
duellid. 5017
all achoge hire po soft-treo « & schoke hire schire leues,
And with a swozand awo3o * pis aware acho hive zoldi¢ = The Sun-trve ttle
# Sine, Jou ort lole of ile lode * po lorde & po fadire; "™™*™
Bot pi sire soile in na side * eco satt pou neuire, 5021
For pi medire nor zit Mezsedof - fou kezie pain na
ae
‘Pati list hirs lithe of his lyfe + & of his last ende : He then ask
“So maidenx,” quod pe mone-tree * “ pi meere bees na The Stele,
langir 5024 trea
‘Bot out pis anlepl jere* & aftir viij monothis ; <=
an call he daale po with a drinke at pou fut dere
traistia”
pat makis he? mournyng & mane * & in his mynd
thinkis, 5027
‘Qua suld pat trecherous trayne * of treson him witke.
‘He said, “ hends haly treo” * & halsid hire in armes, Ho ska," who
“ Quat perso sall do me depresse ‘ I pray po me tell" “*™m?”
Ooh on ale a ad aT
Qua suld fe wite out of po werd ~ & po pi werdis dele,
pan suld pou alan po sane segge * & 20 my mis faile ;
And pat? may wortho be na wai * for ay my wordia
standin.” 5034
‘Pai lokid off him hie ladiemafi * eaid, “‘Iofo of pi wordia, —o.73
* MS, be k conquirowr, * In the margin,

Ashmole.) ‘WE COMES To THE rrectous LAND. 257

“He mae twa pylars! donn to pynche all of playn marbla, tte makes two
And tacchis vp of teeid gold * « polars in pe myddis, 9“
Wath a prolonge in pat plate * on aithire post writen.

“T, Alexander fe athitt - eftire pe date? 5067

Of po prince & Persye & Porrua » pire pilers ou-haunsid.

‘Qua list pis lymit ouir-lende - lene to pe left band,

For po rake of pe tit hand * pat may na maf passe."

Dis titdl! was of twa tongis * tane out & graven, S071 fronted
Of Ebra & of yndoys + & of pire ald lettres,

‘OF latine & of othire lare + & leuos oub of greco,

Proudly prikid od in prose; « & hore a pas ondia,

‘T Vicesimus quarius passus Alexandri,
ow strekia he furth with his stour * d& storis with 16 remove hin
his tentis, 5075

‘He Iouys all pe march-gats ‘I neuend sow bofore,

And nymmes a-nothire off po north * pe next to his kith,

pat to fo marche of Messsdone + was him mast qwome.

‘Sone was he lent in a lands «a large & a noble, ious me
Procioaa, po precions ~ po prose pus it eallis ; eee
Anil clono alt pat contro * quen pai his come wist, 5081

With sike as provid in fa partis * presentis him faire, Be rrates pe,
Som felis of fischia - ferly to tel, fates,
‘Was like us of lepards - & lions skynnes;

‘Sum with Hons of lyne - & lamprays slozis, 5085

pat sex cubsttis clere - was of clene lenghe,

Dar was n cite in® pat side * asivid alt with gomnmes, Ta a ty tn tak
‘With-outen lymo or Inire * a lady it kepid, 5088
A worthi wedow & a wlonk - with thre wnlo childire, (Poi. #8)
at qwone Candace po clers + was callid in pa bonds, — aveli queen
Now call I sotholy of hire sofis * say 30w fo namos; —
pe first wos Candoylo callid * a knigt althiry-fairost 5

pe modilmast of po mot was Marcipy hatteh; 5093

pe thrid Carsptus ix cald * pat kopid all hire landia,

* Acurlorerp. *MBdatero, * M3 piu; edd oeeaten.

ALEXANDER,

— g

Ashmole] «= caNpom's WIFE 1 TAKEN FROM HIM. 259

And twa hundrot & ten » bo tale at po leste,
‘Ofrekanthes of reds gold * milod of gemmos,
With pellicens & papo-foyos * poliacht! de gramenm, 5129 petloane, ant
WHA cambs de with coronacles + alt of clena perio, gun”
‘Thretti goblettis of gold * pe grattest in fo worde,
Fyue handreth aif of euyn elde * of Ethyops childire, #~
Rynoseros,? a rogtio best = with raggld tyndia, 5133 rhinocor,
Afi a3t6 to® jour empire * I fra myn erd wayne,
Borrers of ane Ebyi-tros - & brillos o thousand,
‘Poure hundreth Olifants in fers * pis farditt to bere, wo elennanta,
‘And threiti hundreth of my thedo « pat threuen ere &

tame. 5137
T preeand sow, of panters * fut of proud mascles, so 4 panther=
Foure hundroth fellis sit to foe * pat fynely exe tewid.” “"™
Of leparda & of lionesses - pis Indy him sendis,
A purtenyour in prouate = echo prays with pai to pas, sue privity sevds
And his personole proporsions * in percheme hire bring. leur split
All wns dione as scho demed « & he* hire dene thankie, rei
And gruithis hire giftis agayfi + po gaiest yndire houen.
be payntour presonti+ his aport + & shoo was proud pon,
For acho bad depely many day * desyrid him to seo, (ot, fe)
‘Det wondée furth hire dere son * a littl dais oftér, 5147
pat was ser Candaile pe kene ~ pat was hire kidd aire, Candscwanon,
‘His wife & his womon + & with hia walo fores, frome
‘Ont of po eito pai n0zt + to soluce par hertis ;
po kyng of Bobrike po bald. him on po bent metis, Tw dingo

With a company elena * of knigtis onarmed, Pos
Maynex many of his men « & him his make refis, 5153
For he pat lady hisd Joued * many lange wintire, od rte bat

Hie gees a terme ofa blonke - hire bremely to cust
Before a bald bachelere* - of a bigg stede ;

Scho galfe ekirmand skzikis ot aH po ckowis range, wh sures
Te mist o persid any hert « to hore how scho wepid, 9 "”"

+ M8, pollecha, eltered to polischt, 2 MB. lynoseros,
Ths toon ana avat eae
“Inthe margin, * ME, Yoohela, altered 10 bachelsre,

Ashmole] Avexaxpen raerevpe to sx axrrocuva 261

Bofoor his person apert ° ilk poynt aa ha touchid.
‘Be nogt a-haist quen T bow - ne bede moa? no3t to ryse,
Bot lat pi semblanon be sada» quen pon pi sazo zildiss
Ami sii pan, * Antioe, myn athilt” -quen pou has alt tald, got teve tere
Sy iTatt sa pe witt in fis works? = & wysely mo rede”
_ Patt? trines furth wer Telomew + & tyxis him bolyuo ;
To emperouris sparelt * his* person he clethix 5196
Anil Alexander as belyuo «in anticks name, Alea ye
‘Quon he wast callid, with a knizt~he coms in astounds, anuitun
pan tellis to him ser Telomow - pe tale allto-tedire,
Be-fore sir Candale fo keno * his consailo him aak(e,
“Wao? it sour will,” quod po weo "wale emperoare, sn cv ii
pan wali I fave with pis froke ~ his fero to reakowe,
And bid pe Bobrike + of bathe twa his ose, Wot. day
Withortem bade to pis brist = his brid to restore; 5204
And say put sire, of pi® bo-half « bot he hire sone zuld,
‘Wo salt his cite & him-solfo « syngo in-to poudire t"
With pot inelynos po knizt © & kyndly him loues, Conall se ptease,
Said, “antiok, of at men - ay be fou loyed; 5208
‘Te womes pe, for pi sapience - to ait in a trone,
And to be cled asa kyng > with cronno & with septir 1”
pan sires him furth wer Aloxander * ax Antiok it ware, Atecandey, spe
Gairis of witk candoils * & casi him his Jeue,? 5212 Rnnmnue
‘Sogt furth pe sume nist - & to po cite wan,
‘Quure pe Bebrik kyng - with po bird longia, igen te
Sone po wacchis afi fo wallis « fuch wigtly ascryes,
‘Qua fui ware, & of quethen » & quat was pur erranie,
“Ht is 2x Candoile," quod pe kyng’ * “is comyn for ant ears bots
his spouse oars
And I am mossangery mado * pat mild to dolyuiry,
ps maistir out of Mostodono * jow maynly. onjoynes,
Tf 3p j0nre cite will sano * to soae him his brid.” 5220
pan was po burgaige a-baiste + & brest vp pe jatis,

‘ ppletene in themargin, 7 MS. Ta ba; orate

orrreadad. va

MS, With oifered fo Ware, Sam the margin
eon.

‘Ashmele.] CANDACE ENTERTAENS ALEXANDER 263

Said, * weleam be pou, wale sof» & pou, my walo dostir | abe estamos ber
And Tam glad of joan: gost « as gode geffe mo ioye." —

‘Sire Alexandor hiro a-vines - & ali his hort listie, 5255

‘Him post hire liko at a loko * his lady his modine,

‘Scho was so faire & eo frescho + as faucofi hire somod, Alesanter Ie
AN elfe out of an-otbire erde + or ellie ab Aungell. —
‘Hire palais was fult precious ~ pof it parades ware, eo
Pied oufr with pure gold - alt pe platorofes, 5260

And pat was foynect ful of gumea * & of foly atanes, rol. 13
With brome blasenan® bemes * brizt as po son.

he kyng wit dame Cundace « po caste he entres, ———
Silis in wit pat somely ~ in-to a somers-halt, 5264

A strenthe, was stijtild all of stagis « po wtithest of po

‘word,
‘Was nane 20 comly s close * yndire fo can[o]pe of heuen,

po bild was alt of brent gold ~ pe beddis of pe same, r
Pigt fult of pentests « & opire pronde stances, 5268 Sid tyes
Of Onyelos é orfraye « & orient perles, soot wy

And with pire preciona piora * of peradiso stromos,

Bathe po benkis & pe bordia ~ bett of po noble,

‘Smeton fu of amaragdins *& opir small gemmos, 5272

Of Acats & of Amatistis - & adamants fyne,

Caleidoynes & crisopacns * & opér clere bees.

Do pilars ware of purfire * polischt & hewen, ‘Tae pillars are of

With gomes grovelings of gold * graythid for pe nanes, ™"™""

Fondand on alt foure - on fote & of handis, 5277

‘Buskid vndire pe baisens “to bere vp pe postis.

Dare ran @ revire, as T redo - vndire pat riche hame, A ceyntal rlver,

‘Was neuir na cristalt so clere «as was po clere strandia Pa ames

po kyng & Candace pe quene * & Candoile hire aire,

oe enmo day in po sale ~ was serned to-godire, 5282

‘Scho soeis him on po eccunde day * [4 sono] with him was day cundaso
lachea, wher etaaber

‘Rags him by po rigt hand * & railki# to a chambre,

‘Was pormillid alt of plate-gold * parict & opire,

‘Wit stoute atarand stanos* pat atremed as po eon. 5286

— é

Ashmole] ALEXARDER AND CANDACE. 265

‘Bot in # womans wand * for alt pi wale dodis ! Wein woman's

Ser, wete it wole joure worthenes * fat for na wele here“ “"*

Bold noaire no hathi#t vndire hourn * [be] to hizo loved;

For alt pe welthe of po werd > ware it a wee gmntid,

Te wités a-way at a wapp as pe wynd turnes." 5318

Pan chawfis him pat chiftane - & with him-eelfe chidia, (fo. 2)

All if he spared to spek ~ his sprete ho rehetés. ‘Alexander Is

‘Ax any terand for tenc ~ he with his tetho gualstes, fuatec unten,

And hitterly on ilk side + his houed he declines, 5322

4 Qui collins fou, eer conquirour = & crubbis so pi saulo,

Quat may pi yerta now a-vaile *& ali pine vayh pride?”

“T awote,” quod po swoto kyng * “pot Ina awerd hauo, teow hebar oo

For I na wapen hauo, L-wis “my writh with to vengo!"

Now, bald baratour of bent * if pou a brond bade,

‘Quat prowis mijt pi perso * a-proue in pie etounded”

“For I vnwarly," quod po kryng * ‘am to joure wilt 11) ttooa he,
taken, 5329 then tiioelt

I suld po elan pare pon sittis * & pan my-selfo eftir |"

“Now, thermal quod po quono + “aa knigtly pou

=) Lee & lote of pi sorows.

For pou has brozt my son wife - of bebricans bandis,

Ani I sal surely po saue * viasesid of fe berbrens, i erteek!

For ware it knawen of pi come * pai walld pi cors schind,

For opressing of pe gud prince - Porrus of Ynde, 5336

And Csratros my kid son * has couplid him to wyfo

he do;tir of pis deve kynge * pat pou to dethe bro3t.”

With pat scho eesis pis niro ~ & to fe sale ledes, ie tah an

Sendis eftir hire nous * & eobisly pam trotis 5349 "8

is athilt of ser Aloxander * as pui wore alt haldes,

At pai guld menske hin & mirtho* & make him at osce.

“I knaw it welo,” quod Carstroa * “my comly modire, Cavmiroe says he

Dat ho my brothirs' brid «hon out of bands leuird, un,”

4 how po kyng, bo pat causo * has to pis kith sent ;

Bot my wyfe will ga wode for wa * Dot T i wee spit, or his wife wil go
* MS, brothird, ve

Ashmole] GAXDACE DISMISSES ALEXANDEN, 267

And I salt prestly pat prince * present in-to pi handis," (ol. #)
pan ware pie brothire full blitho * pus ware pai =

peeed,
Ani Candoile eallis to fe king * Diecene cece te a
“ Had I 30w ay with me here * happy ware I pan,
pan wald I wene with 3our witt - to wast alt my fais,”
‘With pat scho kende him acroun *clustrid with gemmea, Cartan phos bis
With Amatists & Adamanda - & an athitt manti#, —
Storind de stizt fult of stanes -sithin stelis to him cussis,
With othire preuates him plesis bad pas on with hele
Nowe aires furth oure conquirour - d& candoile him gidis,
‘Drives farth all pe dai - till doun was pe sof, 5388
Aad 20 pai como till a cane ~ was out af course hogo,
Be-tweno twa hillis in a hopo * & horberd all nizt.
“Sine,” quod candoilo po kono « & to fo kynje said, andl ont ate
‘All spritis in pia spolonk * hero speke pai to-gedine, mag ore
‘Here is pairs comof coneaile ;" + & pis be kyng heris,
‘Makisho gravis to his goddia * & pan po grofo entree,
‘Quen he was doufi in pe depo * he enzo a dym clouds
Foll of starand stornes « and stiztild in po myddest
A gute grysely god * on a gay trone, 5397
phat ligt Temand ejen as lanterns he hod.
‘Ouze mode kyng was so maied - myndles him semed ;
“ Haile, Alexander po hends" * quod pat hize driztin. rapes
“Sine, qua ere 30%” said oury ser * “Synchoa T hizt; se
And to my powere yndiroputt + is alt po playn werd.
‘For pi namo a cito has pon ocsid! * bot fou sottis mo na.
temple.” 5403
“ Size, if I mist merke to Meesodone * 0 Maisie T pe ene
higte;
Sal nano be like it in no lede;”* “nay? lange noyt =
por-oftirt
oo salt neuir loke on pat lund * ga Inwore & be-hald."
pan kend him quare anothire clonde * was fult of brizt
sternes, 5407
"MB, aia * MS, nay nay.

And cufr ilka best was so bigge «of body & of wyng, Tra.)

pat he mizt bere away a blonke * & a knizt armed.

ho Kyng was on his couresero * to comforth his dukis,

‘On fe bold bucifalon - eblande paim he rydis, radeon
| Prekis fra plico in-to plice + bad, “plukie vp jour

hertés,” BAAS

And cherisshost his chiftans - with chelous wordis,

‘Ho baldia of hin bachslors * & bia bowmon ho cheris, snlemnmew

‘To flay with Hanes of po fowlin * & pe felt bestia, 5448

And it was dodo ot his dome + with-drows fai na langir,

Bath archers & alblastie & all pain weailed,

pe batailo of batho haliie * brymly begynnys, A groat bait,

Oure noggis & pe Synagyns - somblid vnfaire ;

Gripis gripia of oure gonies * out of gilt eadils, 5A5S Thesritin var
| Duk post in paire talons - & titt fra faire blonkis, ‘uidien.
Bot jit oure kyng with his kniztie + 20 kenoly defondis,
And with his ginge out of grece = pat he po gree wynnes.
Bot sit was horid of his hero + twa hundroth & ouire,
ie gafe vp po gaste - with gold on pai heles.
an feed ho furth tii a flode - & pat a ferly hoge, 5459 Zhe wray ooune
‘Twenti forvlany & ferro * it had of full breede, ‘i ofr
And ali pe strands of pe streme ~ stode full of stith

reedis,

‘Quare-of he bods at » braid > him bargis to make.
‘Ques it was hewyn at his heat + with beggis ouirefoldeni, which they crom
an ontire in of his erles « & ouire pe eo passin, 5464 "
And off pat kith of oure kyng ' quen pai hia como wist,
pai partd to him with preeands pe proudi of pat land, Almanie
Sum spenda of him of spon[ges}} * a sparles nounbre, secret
Of mirre & of mokit quat * milke-quite? 5468
‘Sum men muselos him mott + & with so mekit schollis,
pat wx pond mit of paise « haue ni of watre.
Sum of soclis of po sen - sondia to him cotis,

ey an th Aieell lath Speen: The Latin

1 one tak ts incomplete? add—'% purpra? Latie text,
albas ot purpuroas,

Ashmole.) ALEXANDER ASCENDS IN THR AIR, an

Sire Saltary, a-nothire sire - now is po sowme reckend.

All fire he closis in pat cliffo * & cairis on forthire repo

To pe cecyafi at pe erthes endo & par in an Ileo ho urid'sent.
heres

A groto glauir & a glaam * of grokin tongia, 5504

pan bad ho knistis puirn ynoletho- & to? pat kithe ewym,

Bot all at come in-to pat colo * crabbia has paim drenchid.

pat sewis furth pat eouerayf - ay by pa enlt etrandia

Toward po sottyngo of po of * in sosof of wintir ; ei

Soxti dais with his sowme * sadly he ridia,

‘Razt on to pe reede Sea » & rurid pare his* tentis, 5510 ee

‘pare was o mizti moutayne * at to pe mone samect,

‘He gessis it gaynér to god ~ pan to po grounde vndire,

And slike a fonned fantasy ~ pan felt in hia hert,

‘How pat ho Liftid mizt be fra pe Iawe* vito pe Ligh Mewiabente
aternes. S514

pan made he smythis to gas smert + & smotho him a
chaiere

Of blake iron & of biggo + & bynde it with cheynce, Hebe von

A sokire wogo in to sit « & sott him on-loft, 5517

And foure Griffons full gryi he in! pat graythe fosten; 16 ema y

He makia to hinge ouir paire hed * in hokis of iret

Flesch on forrom paim fra * at pai mizt nost to reches

‘To make faim froke to pe flist » pat fode for to wyn,

For pai ware fantand be-fore ~ halden for Fe nanes.

Now in he won purje par wingia * vp to pe wale cloudis; 1g tw la op

So hizo to heusn pai him hale - in a hund-quile, 5524

Midil-erth bot as 4 mylnestane * na mare to him semed,

And all po watir of fe werd - bot as a wrothon neddire,

he vertu of pe vorray god - envirounis‘ him ewythe,

And pati pai felt of a fild « ns ferro fra his ost 5528 and deed ina

As any freko mizt founde : in fiftone daics,

And ho ynhurt with mikift vnhome * ho to his ort (eha7
wynes,

| In the margin, * MS, fo hing mid to struck owt,
* Read recho, * Dhe first above the Fine,

Ashmole.) ‘DEATH OF BUCEPRALUB, 273

Dan driues he Fothia with his dukis + in-to desert Landis, tecomes ton
‘Is rist botwene fo reede soe‘ &e Armabio costis, 5564 ™™

A wilson wast & a wild * & wona fult of neddira,

And Jai wars hedoarly hoge - & horned as Tapia,

pal turred down of hia tulleia * & with par tyndie slozo;

‘Hot pe drozest decls of pai died - of his dukis handie,

an past he to a-nopir place * & pizt doun his tontis, He dghte agninw
And fand a bataitt of bestis~ as bromo as po first. 5570 paws"
pai ware of figour d& of fourme * as fondis of het, Ps,
With beny hedis & hoge as horses it were.

And) pel ware tacchid ful of tothe -as tyndis ore of tame some

hharows,
And fell Mazames as of firs * floge fra paire mouthes.
A willy sowme of his mgyis - was lane or ho wist,
And he foo hertis his here * biddis, “howis of, my
childire ;” 5576
And ferly ford of his fulkee + was in po fd strangild.
Bot aif po dregs of pu deuola * pai drenchid or pai past,
an fondis lie furth with his folke - in-to a fil entris, Ms comeatow
‘And par be logis with lis londis + & Iengis for a quile.
For alike a felt infirmite - was in his hors bunden,
Bacifalon ps bald stods ~ pat ho for bale dics 5582 Bocephatus dies,
be emo blischis of his blowko * & cogca his broth faile,
Sighia selouthly sare * & eadli he wopis,
‘Foe Se had standon him in stedo * in stouris fut hard,
‘Won him wirsehip in wore * fr many wathe saued.
‘po kynge to pis carioti « ho castis his ojon, Atecander
Said, “fare wele, my faire foole * Fou failid mo neuire !
Sai now pi flosch hore be froten : with fowlis & with
‘wormes, 5589
fat has ao doptyly done? - nay, dristin for-bede 1”
pan bilds ho pare a berynes * pis beste in-to ligg, se ii an
(Obchans echierierand gold: na it's echrine ware, 9 “"“"™
A tombe as a tabernacle * & tildis vp a cite 5593 (ru.son)
Tn renerenos of pat riche stede - & eftér him it callia,
pan ridis ho to a Reuere a ruydo & a hoge, nen
ALEXANDER, t

Ashmole J THE GREAT THRONE (8 BABYLON, 275
3it mizt neuér, I lofe oure lorde ~ my lege, gow with-
stande 5

i
Sire, blissid be oll pi bachelers * at fo in? bales hel pid !”
And now fynes here a fitt -& folows anothire, 5626

Fieesimus septimus yassus Ulexandri,

ure bold kyng*in Babiloun* nowe bildis vpatrone, Alexander wothle
gc bed aban a pore as po batyion
Pat was eo oa ‘wrogt * of workis dinerae,
pat slike 2 sege vndire son * was neuire gene eftir,
Bo grete garisons of gold « po grekia in brozt, 631
pe Meilis & po Messudons + many horsis chargid,
pat pal out of yndo & ols-quare + with olifants lode;
Tt wald hane wlated any wee * pat welth to be-hald.
Twrelfo cubottis fru pe eald orth ~he eastie tt on high, tweet mt
Anni xij degreces aif of gold * for gate vp of londis ;
And twyse sex Semylacria * sesid he par-vndire, 5637
at held of ize wit paire handis - all pir heuy werke.
Ani par was grouyn in pos gomes * with grekin Istteris,
And tivlld in pe tried names * of his twelfe princes,
With ilk a statute pat par stude stoutely cnarmed,
And euer-ilk & perso a prince * payntid was ofvir.
‘AB fo soto of po sogo * was smaragdyns fyne, 6643. Toe wut wis ot
Of tried topnces & trowo * tyrid was pe wawes, Loe:
A tabornacte ouvir po trone « tildid yp of* loft,
And Jon with stanos of ilka atate * walt fo stoure clustrid,
A charboclo a8 a chaewe - wa» in po chef bolt, 5617
pat brynt in boly-blind nist * aa brigt a8 po sof, tra mag
With Imagis vndire in ilka nend - & Impid in po names
Of all fo prouyneos & po places * pat ho was princo ouire.
And pai ware visid a in versie’ * in variant lottirs, Rtas nectar
‘Sum in latons lare * sum langage of grece, tenguager,
' In the margin, * MB, Balilous,
3 Inthe margin, 4 MS, vorter,

Ta

ALEXANDER'S WIL ar

tho upper half of whieh is born dead, A sootheayer tells Aloxander
that it signifies his approaching death,

At that time thore was a man in Macedon named Antipator, who

i conspired with othors to kill Alexander, Ho dosigned to do eo by

poison.
D) Antipater procures very strong polson, and sends ft to his eon
~ Gassander. Cassandor instructs his brothor Roboas (whom Alox-
| ander Joved, but tnd chidden for a slight fault) how to convey the
| poison to Alexander,

Alexander makes a great feast in Babylon. Roboas puts tho
‘Poison in acup, and hands it to Alexander, who drinks if, and cries
oat, “Help, help!" In falling, his sword pierces his liver; yet ho
‘Fiscs again, and bids his guests continue the feast.

\. Alexander asks Cassander for a feather, to causo vomiting, and
© Cassander hands it to him, dipped in poison, which only increases
the malady. Alexander passes a sleepless night, during which his
Tamp goes out, Ho crawls along on hands and knees to drown him-
self in the Euphrates, Roxana stops him, and replaces him in his
‘bed, lamenting. Alexander sends for a notary to make hia will.
‘The will instructe Aristotle to give a thousand talents of gold to
‘the priests of Egypt. If Roxana giver birth to boy, he is to bo
emperor; if to a girl, sho is to be empress, married to some princely
Macedonian, who is to bo made emperor. Lat Ptolemy have Egypt
and many Cleopatra ; lot Cloothor have Ethiopia, Antiochns Syria,
Arridons Peloponnesus, Ariatus India, Nicanor Seleucia, Yamachas
Hungary, Hantus Armenia, Lyochus Dalmatia and Sicily, Simon the
notary Cappadocia and Pelagonia; lastly, let Cussander and Roboas
Ihave all as far as the river named Sol, and let their father Antipater
havo Cilicia,
| When the will was mado, there followed thunders and lightnings
and great earthquakes, and all the world knew that his death was
near. Tho Macedonians crowd round the palace, demanding to see
him, and to know who is to bo his successor. Ho names Perdiccas,
to whom he commends Roxana and all his soldicrs.

‘Thon the Macedonians all begin to kiss him and to weep bitterly.

‘Their lamentations aro as low thunder, and even the sun is eclipsed.

ha

The Story of Alexander,

[Tux following epitome of the life of Aloxander, in

‘English proes, is copied from the Dublin MS., beginning
‘on fol, 45, back]

Alexander tho grote, po sone of philip kyngt of Alezander begin
mecedot, which philip regned vij jore, and po said °™™
alexandor began to rogne in the xviij zere of hya age

& And ho rail to hys poeple in pis wise: “ Fair lordes, I Blears to
will in no wise bo contrarye to your willes, ne to your ™”
deder, Bat I achewo to you pat I hate frawder &
aaleoos, & ne Lhauo loved you duryng my fadors lyff,
840 will To in tyme Commyng, And I bothe councoll =Dradaot ter
& pray you that 3¢ dredo god, oboyo hym as souerayn
of alt, And cheso hym for kyng; & be most oboyssiant
‘to hym pat shall bost purvay for po gude aatate of hya
12 poopile, & pat shall bo most debonar & morcifalt to
pure folkex pat beste? woll kope instice & po right of
po feblo ayonst tho mighty; hym olao that eholt best aey tuonim
ispoyse for po publyko wolo? & for no dilectacion of surfrthe
16 wordly? plesaunce shalt not be slowefull to kepo & pees eae
efunde you, and by whom 3e shall be defendytt, & a8
cuelt & harmex by po moano of hys goode dedes shall
be distroyed ; And he pat most hardly shall put hym and him who best
20 im devour to distroy your enmys; for suche ought to tere
be chosen kyng’ and nono other.”

4 MB. pat beste pat bet. * MS. publyke like wele,
* A correct form.

‘THE stony OF ALEXANDER. 281

deryng herbis in pe foldex And he asked of faim
mony questions, to which pai answond wisely. And
Pe ha iad paim asko of lym some ping fat anight 1 ote to arnt
do aim good & to all palr people, aud he wold gyi"
Joim it ghily. And pen pai mid: “Sir, we aixe pe
none other ping bot at pou wol gyif vs Saberedndtic
Ayfs." ‘Thenne alexander answerd & said ;

Pe ee atc ar thas cnrbnrnsranee

| he may not lonnthe hys awno life one houre? And tte anys be
Jat 30 axic of mo ia in no mannez power pab loucth," arpa
‘Thenne fai said to hym: “Soth fou hase good know:

GB logh therof, wher tmayvellos pou piel to distroye all Tuya him
tho worldo and gadr aH? fo wordly treaoure, And tution
ywotto not when pou mui lof faim?” ‘Thon Alex: faguep.
Gniter eayd to hym: Edo not al pis at 39 vay as of

T2 myself. Butt god hath eont mo throgh all po world me estat
for texalto® snd magnifyo hys law nnd distroy all pom wil.
pat bolous not in ym.”

And some tyme Alexander wonte diegysed visityngt

76 bys lordoz & onquiryng! of pair dodes, And on a tymo
tho Come in-to a towne of hys awne, And sawe tivo mon Mo viaites town,
of po samo towne bifore a {uge plotyng’, of the which finn ee"
on mid to fe Inge: “Sir, I haue boght on house of

BOthys man; And, long after, E have founde in it a ove my. Ihave
fresour vader fo erthe, which is nott myno, And I inweiwme
haus offer? to deliuer it to hym; And ho hath refusyd ‘tng Se
it; whorfore, Sir, I besechs the he be compellyd to

BA take it, for also moche as ho knoweth it is nob myno;
for I haue no right perto." Thenno tho Ingo com-
mound hys aduersarie parte to answere to po same,

And pen ho myd: “sir Iuge, that enmo tresour was fs iets

88 newer myne; but ho hath odyfyed in pat placo that war soverbis,
was byforo comyn to alt poo that wold haus edyfyod
thorin. And perfore I bane no right to take it.”

+ MS. and gure alle (fol. 46) And to gedyr all.
MS. to texalte : (texalte = to exalte).

THE STORY OF ALEXANDER.

antis therin wherof such thyngez shuld serue. The
which answerd hym & sayd: “First, for pe outragez?
hight of housez, loue & Iustice can nott be long’ a towne

128 emong pe people.” And pai sayd, po pittez & grauez
wer pair awne housez, to pe whiche pat pai shuld
sone go to, and per dwelle vnto pe day of Iugement.
And as tochyng' that thai hed no Luge, pai sayd, pai

132 made good Iustice of pem-self, wherfore pai nede no
Tuge. Thenne Alexander departed from paim? right
well pleasyd.

283

‘The inhabitante
‘explain to btm
‘the meaning of
‘these things,

And afore hys deth, he wrote a letter vnto hys Alerander writes

136 moder, desering’ hir to make no sorow for hym. And
sone aftir Alexander died & was putt in a cofire of gold,
& buried in alexandria with grote reuerence by princez
& oper grete lordez that keped® & fulfillyd hys testa-

140 ment’ as he had ordeigned: thenne stert vp one of po
grettest’ lordez of paim that kept‘ hym, and sayd pus:
“Thay pat neuer...

[The rest of the story is lost.]

" Soin MB. ; read outrageous. * MS. paim them,
#°MS. kepeth, — * MS. kepth.

to Alexandria
eth great
honour.

NOTES.

Ix the following notes some attempt is made to elucidate a few
passages in the text, especially where additional light {a to be obtained
from comparing it with the original Latin, or with the other English
‘yorsions, In eome casos phrases are explainod, but tho reader should,
in gonoral, turn to the Glossarial Indox for holp with reapoct to tho
more difficult words, The question of the various texts of the Alexander
Romance is more fully treated of in the Preface. It is sufficiont to
mention hero that tho Latin text cited below is the “Historia de preliis,”
fs printed (at Straseburg) in 1489, ‘Tho Englich alliterative fw
cited as “A.” is that edited by myself in 1867 as an Appendix to William
of Palermo (& ET. S.)5 whilet that cited as “B," ia the toxt called
“Alexander and Dindimus,” also edited by mo in 1878, These two frag-
ments are allied td very different parts of tho present text, A part of A,
resembles 1, 23—803* of our text, whilst B, resembles ll, 4019—4714,

Lines 1—22 are obviously original, and intendod aa a Prologue.

13. Bot if, unless, “It were o wondor else, unlees they would in
many a way (desire fo hear wauton works); for, as their wits aro
within (them), a0 their will follows (those wits).”

18, Butillis, { will ondeavour, the prosent being ased for the future,
Eiltitiis ia tho first porson ; and the sullix -ée at onco marks the dialect
as Northumbrian ; for farther remarks on this polat, see the Preface,

17. The buke, i. « the Latin text hers followed.

All tho world over” is @ phrase atill in ues.

21. And yo will, if yo will, Renkis, mon, hoarors; the story is
supposed to be recited oF read aloud,

28, Here the Romance begina, and in order to show cloarly how
the translator has treated his original, the whole of tho first chapter of
tho Latin text is here given, answering to the Primua Passus of the
translation, which ends at J. 213. It should be further compared with
the corresponding passage of A., viz, Il. 452—573.

“ i fontisaimi Egipcii, eciontes monstram toro yndaequo marie et
colestium ordinem cognoscentes, id ent, atellarum curvam, moturn etiam
firmamenti, tradideraut etinm vniuerso orbi per altitudinem et per

noticia artium magicarum. Dicunt enim de Anectanabo rege cole
quod fuerit ingeniosus in astrologia ot mathematica orvditos. Quadamn
autem die dem nunciatum fuissot ei quod Artaxoreca rex perwarum
‘com valida mana hostium super cum veuiret, non mouit mil neque
preparauit exercitum, sod intrauit cublculum palacié sui; ¢t deprendens

or the fifth olemont, otherwise the
1. 106, 107. Tn this ordis are contained

planots and the fixed stara ‘The * courses of the clear stars”
fa L, 28 refers to tho orbits of tho planets,

2. For aghill tre read athill jira, Tho reference ia to the throo
* peripheries” into which the cloment of air waa aubdivided,

“This air in porifories thre
Dorided i, of such elegra,” Sx. ; Gower, ©. A, fi
_Artious and Antarticws refor to the two poles of the hearens,

35, A clear referenos to the opening words of the Latin text—
* Supientissimi Egiptii,” &e,

B6, “hey taught all, that desired to learn it, (some) of that
Tore.” Lere iw hore iinproperly waod, the right word being learn, ‘Tho
converse ecrur, of using leurn in the scase of ‘teach,’ is common in
provincial English

41. “When he beheld the heaven, ho was wise enough to reckon
the destinies of men alive.”

44. How Aristotle taught Alexander “ the nature of philosophy" in
told by Gower in his seventh book, On the “aoven arts,” sea my
Notes fo FP, Plowzoan, p. 243.

46, Tho three authore alluded to aro doubtless Plato, Pythagoran,
ar Prise they are not mentioned in the Latio text, the translation
Being much amplitiod.

D. "To pasa (i. ¢. to march) againot Lim.”
fall > po rink gon it
Lat. “conclinm plenam aq

TO. Hare word, boar wood, i. . bara wood, one xtripped of Teaves,
et in wintor-time. So ale “hore okex" and “bare twygee,” Gawain
and the Grene Knight, 743, 746 forest highe aud hore,” Lo Morto
Arthas, ed. Parnivall, 1, 3

GA. Anes, for Anvctani this shortonod form occurs frequently.

81. An iu all M.B pooms, the spelling of
Proper natnce is very inaccurate. So in |. 87, the MS, has panchy,

81. These oames may be compared with those in the Latin text
(above), and in A.A¥—GOO, Hence Syre in Syria; Syehim (perhapa
suggested by Sichom in tho Bible) auswers to nove of the Latio

names; Capidos uo doubt moans Cappadocians; Faire representa the
Lat, Phareay Batary, the Lat. Buchiri (perhaps Bactrlans), See note
to A. 493.
97, Kepe fo pe marche, guard the border-land; or, an A. hae it,
ted well thyno ow Koste” (const).

i only im that case where they Gi. ©. men) aro blended

cites compounded) ti greatness of will” (i, 6, of courage),
107, For pe (ae in MS.) wo should oortainly read pu, thou (voc,

case)
HO. “Will cae to take to Might, and will terrify, many harts.”
Sen note ta A. O15.

orks To pp. o—11, ll, 102—34), 289

192. Here again we aro referred to “the book"; and accordingly
the Lat text (sign, a 1, col. 2) has “ex lapide nigro.”

199. Fur “at his fortes,” as in MG, read “at his foot," as in A. 570,
Tat. “ad pedes nius;" same column,

210, AU hie an‘, alone by himself; prociscly equivalent to tho
sod, So, Ais lane (¢hort for his all ane).

214. Here the Second Pasus begins precisely where the second
chapter of the Latin text docs, but comprises four chapters of the
latter; and, in general, cach Pasius contains several auch chaj

237, “Put his hand vp to bis hair, and bont it downward but o
Tittle.” ‘This was a form of salutation, much like that practised by the
moder soldier, Lat, “extendonaque manum snam salutanit ean ;"
41, back, col, 1,

"228, Lat. ‘ Aue regina Macodonio; dedignatua ef dieero domina,"”

246, “For there dwell, in that region that thou before didst speak
‘of, the wisest men,” &c.

257. Whether the obild bo a male or a female” Werder,
destinies.

274. Lat. “protulit de sina suo purificam tabulam cream et
‘eburneam mixtam soro et argento, tres ia ge cfrenlos continentem.
Primus contivebat in oo intolligontine duodecim, In tercio vero wol et
Tuna parebant. Post heo apparobat cathoua eburvea ot ex co protulit
septom splondidissima astra, horas explorantia et nativitates homin
et septom lapidon sculptor ot duos lapidon ad custodiae hominum
constitutos ;" 01, back, col. 1, ‘The “blosand table" wan an astrolabe
Baleplire, with circles (1) of the 12 intelligences, (2) of the “dozen

‘of beasts,” i. e. {2 signs of the zodiac, (3) the circle of the sun and
moon, Gower expressly calls it an astrolabe; 0, A. iii, 64. And seo
Kyng Alisaunder, ed, Weber, |, 287,

@ devon stars aro tho oven plancta, and the sovon stones are
the precious stones soverally asslgacd to them ; ee them enumerated
in the note to A, 628,

205 “What ahall happon betwoon us, viz, between me and

299, “Nevertheless, ere any long time, it aball happen ax thou

308, peter ee

800, Is amec, ia destined to know thoo carnally and afterwards to
help thee fn all advoraition

7. “ But just so between the two, and too much of neither.”

S12. “ With two tough horns, attached to hin forehead.” These
horns characterised the god Ammon, Hence Alexander acquired the
‘surname of Dulkarnein, or the two-horned, as being the supposed son of
Amman,

B40. Eme fill ezorgise, eager to oxorcive. Here eme stands for
aa eager, as shewn by Milzner, & ¥. corne, and cf. Alex. A. 1091,

the word exorzise, the symbol 3 stands (as occasionally in other

ALEXANDER, v

‘NOTES TO pp. 19—24, Il. 6s1—T22, 291

shows that the right roading in sohonsid, io, shunted, moved; Lat,
“vidi elementa muiari;" a 2, back, col. 2.

S81. “And nevertheless, on any account, Jet him be kept awhile
‘and nourished as particularly aa if ho wore my own,”

583, “Yet will noble people make romerabrance of him, and rocord
‘it hereafter, that T had iu my time such a divine son,

688, The poet here departs from hia original, which saya, on the
contrary, that Philip's eldor son was not to bo bis heir; Lat. “in filii
quom ex altera vxore habui succodat [Alexander] locuin;" a 2, back,
col.

2.

‘597. Aw the Latiu text is appealed to, the description of Alexande
ix here given. ‘Coma capitin sicut leonis aspera videbatur, Ocul
eine ticut etelle micantes aod colore rare radiabant, vou nigor, al
vero glaucus appareos, Dentos siquidem eas erant acuti, impeti
ius foraidas vt loouis”

608, If, aa the original shows, ho was wall-oyed.” Here “wall.
eyed" scema to be used in the senso of having eyes of different colours,

G42. “He escapes him with great difficulty, unless he can skip
away more quickly.”

668. Sa party it, is x0 different from mine.

676. “It shall not annoy thee to tho value of an egg, vi. none of
his thoughts” (stall aunoy you),

678, Here begins the Dublin fragment ; seo p. 23.

684, For sferne read merke, ax in the Dublin MS,, on account of the
alliteration. ‘Tho rondor, having both texts before him, can readily
supply for himself improvemonts of this character,

686. “Only follow me" Here nozt bot is the familiar North of
England nobbuf, i,o, not bat, only.

692, “Many winters being dono,” as in Dublin MS,, i. 0, many
winters ago.

703. Lat. “Vide stellar Heronlis qualiter conturbatur, Mercuriua
voro gaudet, Touem siquidem video coruacantem ;" a 3, col, 1.

Lo, doath at the bands of my own gon, Cf, 1, 722,

722, Here two leaves are lost in the Ashmole MS., as shewn by
the Dublin MS,, which supplics the missing 122 lines. Aa we are here
dependont upon ono MS, only, the corresponding portion of the Latin
text is hero given (a 3, col. 1, &e.) :

“Alexander dixit, ‘Ergo filius tous sum?’ Anectanabus re:
spondit, ‘Reuern ego geoni ta’ Et heo dicens expirauit. Alexander
autem filiali pietate moto ‘nper humeros suos
portauit ipsum in palaci jerot illum Olimpia
dixit Alexandra, 'Fili Alexander, quid est hoc?’ Cui ille respondit,
“Corpus Anectanabi ost.’ Olimpia dixit, *Anoctanabus pater tuus fuit.’
Respondit ille, ‘Quemadmodum stulticia fecit tua, ita est.’ Et iuaait
as sopeliri. creep

jualiter cops de Capadocia adduxit equum buci-
fallum ad regem Macedonum. Ss

NOTES TO pp. 27—36, IL. s00"—r08, 293

owhera the Latin toxt morely offers alternative explanations,
‘reason Ea ty i rab emma cama
(Notioos m
fie Rat
769°. Warloked, fettored, In the Prompt. Parv, wo find warlok, »
fotter-lock, Gig eats bias Gund x the Src carpobe ex lar Es
778°. Hera a ‘a tine has probably been lost, as shewn by the eudden
change of subject, In the preceding lino, hye refers to Alexander ;
Preset ie on To Alox, A. 1164, tho words pa

- the gap.
faastiars ands all agreachant it with fraginent A. of the romance.

200%, “Neither men nor ny excallet armour shall be lacking t2

thea; and hold I lit. hale) army,
ee ak dort a yer the foros baat oe elon in Strat-
“mann. aera cinen ).

813", Ta acatle that the Latin toxt has Ephesio, for tho
Liiey form Bufestyus is airs noarer the mark; probably our

Reese erry rm Epheatio, The person alluded to ix
certainly Hophwation of mai celebrated in history as Alexander’
frend; even in the romance the Greek text has 'Hyareriwre (Notices
des Manuscrits, xili. 2).

828°, Julins Valerius says that Nicolaus was king of Acarania
(ed. Mai, So 8).
ma aydeus ; So madeus, These aro corruptions of the

& ‘
apr is we ay On aid me, the first word being

738. “As angry an a wasp" is given in Hoywood's Proverbs; sco
Skelton, Elynour Rummyng, 390, and Dyce’s note,
Rea iahante atic right nee it ease, as a agosk of xy
spittle in sprinkled on thy face.” See 1, 745,
743, i.e. our, hound; Lat. “Tolle quod to decet habore,
TS red 8, back, col. 2
i. abalt so; cf, note to 1, 174,
758 "And T will either gnin for myself thy kingdom, or reach up

ich dn ‘Omit the second me in the MB,
‘773. Lat. “ Itaque tubis bellicis slangoates rate hostiliter sunt
Sore ‘acriter prepare io a ai co 1.
aie

‘powers, that the whole of the fine passage comprised in Il, 77 —
arr egaAed Pal ot tsk Soc Sra as sortie pugnora capersal

OTES: TO PH a0, HL 1068—19Te. 295,

Ttaliam habitantibus veque mie Ose, qvorom rego woatr
Europa, reliquit cos | iepecss
10. “In hee dale eal ib,

consuleadum ;" 0.5, col, 2, Valerius has “Pharum,” In North's Plot,
ed. 1631, p. 686, it is “the Tle of Pharos, the which at that time was
Huila hone ie month ofthe rive of Bilom called Cancbn, howbett 1

Read with tyndis Marea tattarnidea tees tenis
arth, (which hend) was to look upon like a harrow, covered
all over with tines.” ‘The allusion is to tho immense number of tines
om the horns of tats very aged hart; they were as numerous as the
tines: of a ‘The age of a hart was known by the
Danae of tin; se the Book of “Ain

1077. “Io locum qui dicitur Taphostri;” ib, Valerius calla it
ne he explaina aa ‘tomb of Osiris ;" pes arabes as
peweeeD ates seas have come out of Tuphonirs, fire yt changed

and then Caphorisi.

0 TOT, Note (oto that 1, 1098 is purposely omitted in the nurnboring ; #00
footnote 1, p. 58.

1108. “Post. bibitam Sin mortem gastabls amaram, In

1116. ppliesd Ascalon ; not mentioned in the Latin text,
1120. Alenrander, an error for Alexandria,

1121. Eyist, an obvious error for Eyipt, Egypt. Tho translator has
cee that Alexander is already supposed
to be

1126, ‘This black monument ix tho ono already moutioned, in 1, 192.

1142, Sydoyne, Sidon; not in the Lat, toxt,

1147, “ What with one thing, and what with another.”

1149. * Erat fortis ciuituy, tam maria clreumdatione, tam adificiornm
Seirsitoon tam ct ipsius loci fortitudine nnturali quod nullatenus

Ca are 05, back, col. 2,

Mit

VE ’

_Nores TO pp. 72—89, I]. 1300—1006. 207

. for foute hire, {.0, trond her (tho city) anier foot ;

Lat. Spnamque pedibus conculeabia ;” a 6, col. 2, “ Kouler, to tread,
or on 5" Cotgrave,

1370. Ane eld, put for a neti, or ane weld, 4 noodle ; 40 also a nedyll
in the Dublin MS, tod on sum eco agen, "Et ae
edifictum classium quod erat contum anchoris alligatum, Erat aiqui-
dom tante colaitudinis quod murls et turribus Tyrorum Al

i” ib.
12351420, ‘Thia spirited passago, evidently written with koon
@rlzrant of tho wens, ls uct fa the orifoal
1421—t, This somewhat varies from the orf
anchoris edificinm parobat ad lat

ilu

A largo portion of the Seventh Passus, down to 1. 1687,
: 16 aocount in senrhas, “Antiq. of the Jowe,
xi. c. 8, which should bo compared with tho toxt.
a slaw him an errand,” Aslinole ; “had denied him by
I hie

gis

i grea
terse tlsormiee, and shat." Tho sense of
in this case, is a small box Rancs covtaining relics. Hence the
phrase “to swear on the halidom"; Rob, of Brunno, Handlyng Synne,
5629, Sov the glossaries to ‘Layamon and the Ormulam,
1469, Jaudes, Jaddua ; nce note to J, 1171,
1504, “Deinde ipsum ira domini couculcabit; a 6, back, col. 1.
rae oped abounding in fancy and
iis passage, nding in fancy jinvon-
tion, is not in tho Latin toxt,
ne a es Cee over) oe Jewallocyy which was
rae fany) other.”
ees: kill, for some reason. Lat

reen #4 locum gut
ae tomplum ct ipsa ciuitas conspicitur ;”

ras ee eC GE aciranic 8 ckogat: plaka vouttens (6
ah mnie plave called Soya, which nema transloted-Ints

1922, Lat. “super capat eifuls beri ryndonem mundam et

ia per st in qua nomen Dei tetragramaton

scriptum erat,” fe Touoy kevin montions this head- The

word o rt, in YHVH, or Fo the exact

ee ie ntill Aisputed ; ee aS Hob, Dict, 9th ed. p, 928,

1605, Lat. “ Uiuat vinat altissimus Alexander venit. Dian vivat
| imporator Aloxandor,” &c.; a 6, back, ool, 2

ie

ee

‘NOTES TO pp, 09—100, Il 1774—1024, 299

shoot) being all one word, For the distinction between shot (shot) aud
shete, to shoot, so» Stratmann, &. v. acho, acheoten.

ok Forde ira the’ simple vorb whence ME, aforthen (now

1792, diss Be ahel (the asual spelling). Bee 1. 1831,

1809. “The great stores of gold shall gather wp our hearts,” io,
a

1813. This ee meta ees eae lo by notlog that

for, in 1, 1789, whore the FE, version has pyre pe to dede, the Latin has
vt principem latronum erucifigant ;”" ib, Cf. |. 1821, Juliua Valoriug

1832—-5. Tho Lat. text is more clearly worded. “ Sedentibus illis
dixerunt Aloxandro, Rex, #i vostro placet maivstati, imporate vt oquites
‘mille nobisoum voninnt, quia Darinm in manibus ooram trademus,
‘Quibus Alexander reapondit, Letetur animus vester in boe quod sedetis,
ici pro traditions vestri regia non dabitur vous mfles;” a 7, back,

“1897. Chart; §, . the erost on the ocal; see 1. 1845.

1846. co gi ere e truly; Lat. “si bene volamus

2

pe "pi rena, thy realm (as in Dublin MS.).
‘Lat. “ cum omnes in rota fortune volatiti litamue” ib.

1868. “Therufore » wise man, though he be in prosperity.”
. TANS, Set, sata, pints per and Southern form, short for

“Cam mi ina pin eatollatur, ot altiasimus veque ad

1964,
paluerem deprimatue ;"
1874. “Sed cum dif sint immortales, mortaliam habere consortium
vilipendunt ;" ib. He argues that, if Darius were reall, like,
Morea a here ty ncn th weal i a i
for except to overcome &
little thief" (Lat. latrancalum). isos
1882, * But if it befal me, that am a child, to be the stronger”

Meera acts cinsea tee nen cae itia curnabuntur,
Per cancram wuresm, roncbgpipea mmm tiger clones
on ta Primo ste geile ib, J. Ve
J ot Al A bee! y" ib, J. Var
een pe Boisaree a id Spynther; p. 6
Fra, from the time that, For, aos Is better.
Lat. indoarn rie carrera cena

NOTES TO pp, 190—120, Il. 2119—g068, 301

crossed the Taurus mange of mountains. Lat.“ Ascendit . . . Ia montom
Thauram ;” b 2, col. 2.

2112. Here the poet must havo had a differont reading or have used

text, since the Lat. has only “in qua [cinitate] sunt nouem

initia; ib. have no doubt this allusion ix due to a passage in Julius

Valoring, ed. Mal, p, 69, whoro, immodiately after a mention of the

Woulmes Tasel monte (sce 1. 2109), wo have an account of Alexandor

coming to a “ Picrian” city, sacred to the muses; “ibidem musw etiam

Pierides conseeraias videbantur, unaque omnigentim figmenta viventium

mosioam demirantia,”
‘2117. Lat, “ ingroesus tomplom eolis ibidem victimes immolauit ;”

211A Flum, river; Lat, "flamen." Fyue; the Lat. says ffteen
2190 Tat at go ander omer lene. "Goa veo
\ictus rospondena ait ;

yberiores laudes de te scribere qaco quam fecit Homerus de hiis qui
seen. destroxerunt Troianam ;" ib. In 1. 2123, And has the force
“than.”

2124, Lab," Magioler, enpio sapientis ease discipulus magis quam
vills Inades habere ;” ib. The translator has quite missed the point ; it
means, * I would rather be the disciple of a wise man (like Homer) than
receive the praises of an inforior man (like yon).”

UBL Abondra Tat. "Abdyron* ib. Abdera in meant; woe J,
Valerius, ed. Mai, p.

ae 2B. “ity: Lat, “ Brochin ;* b 2, back, eol. 1. Caldlpot ;

we But the Lat. calla it “lumen senie;” ib, In J, Valerius, od,

eae
05. “Then all the strong steeds stand us in stead not to the value

of a straw.”

Sarr ‘Luetws ; Lat. “Lutros ;" ib, Locris is meant ; #00 J. Valerius,
pi
oon: Tergarontes ; Lat. “Tragacintes;” ib, In J, Valerius, p. 77,

2179, Zacora; Lat.“ Zochora;" b 2, back, col, 2. For summe read
unne, 1a i. tho Dablia MS j the Lat. calla her “sacerdos fermina

‘2210. Insert to fonde, §. ». to advance, a8 in Dublin MS.
2215. Seehue ; Lat.“Zochus;” ib, ‘Tho allusion is to Zethus, brother

of
ete Gt, J. Valery. 70.

2268, Lat, “Tile qui hobecanycomtreet. Stollen tre rotorian
4" 4b, ‘Thobes waa rebuilt by Cassander, 0,0, 816,

V—_— 7 a "

NOTES TO pp. 144—161, Ll, 2606—2609. 303

Aespoll amall nations." Lat. “go autem putabam fam exe latran-
Seale with fens prod oop fears Sablon eallera MUD. 000 37
2505. OE a tech Ie alata

2608, Leues, loaves, grants 5 £ to Lat, “conoedere ;”” ib,
2612, Oriathirey the Lats has Masher; ib ‘But Jy Valerian
(p11 hes Osyethres,
“ Magnificast! Alexandrum, dicens quod {lle exardesclt ingred!
Pervidiam quara nox Ellndam occupare;" ib, Here Eladam clearly
stands for Hellada, i, 0, Hellas or Greece, od sueh is meant by: Elonda
fin 9514. “We are to give up Greece, and he is to enter Persia.”
2519. “Debeo ab illo, an ille a me exemplam colligere ?" b 5, col. 2.

eS; Tat Tell,” th Appolomadees Lat “Appoll

mati.” for Parthia; Lat. "
2698, “A wolf will worry many Eyes eo 2” Compare the
saying of Ancctanabus in 1, 109, which gives point to 1, 2592 above,

had)
also rofer to the samo occasion ; cf, 1, 889, Still, tt must be admitted
that, ax tho story now stands, the right reading mast bo a wey ie a
certain man, viz. another of the courtiers of Darius, This requires the

3 Valeri ‘agree with this latter view,
foclan ; Lat, “ Oceanus ;” b 5, back, col 1. In Plutarch,
pees tatu planes someting te ce uxual account. So also in
a. 117; of. Kyng Alisaundor, ed. Webor, p. 145.
2654, 7 ealled by Plutarch “ the Acharnanian,”"

Parmenio; xee the epitome of the story in the note
to J. Valoriug, p, 119. ‘The Lat. ealle him " Parmorins;" ib, Parmenio
‘was put to death by Alexander, but not on this occasion, In fact, he fa
alive again inl, 8113, This error is noticed in Kyng Alisauader, ed,

bites Pa 146,
fish-whole, as sound asa fish, Hazlitt's Proverbs,

partsas none a8 a roach" and “as sound as @ trout.” Fyrh-
es in the Chovalere Assigno, }. 353, And sco |, 4262

baie a Tat, # Adriacas;" 0 6, back, col, 2

+ ame Cae

NOTES TO pp. 261—209, Il, 5205—s4or. MS

5205, “And say Solaire ae behalf" &o, On thé behalf =
He hyn, he cae oe (pretondod) Alexander,

‘yous homo portare non potuisset, et nuoes forentos maximoa
Pareereens pS, Beh ool: Cl Mandeville’s Travola, cli.
‘xxvi. p.

Peasests, Thero ta no such wond in the Lat text, nor in
Valerio, 318, 111, o. 67.
Shad Plas enim apnd

“Respondit regina, bene dicia, Alexander,
Grecos quam apod Tudos digna fuisscat;" f t, col, 1. Hence, in |,
5500, @ stands for ‘than’,
6319, “ Andions hee Alexander stridere dentibus et caput cius
‘copit omni parte ;" ib,
san. “Ut quid inter temetipsum irasceris ot tucbaris?” (ib.)
5333. Bebricans handis, the bands of the Bobrician; ef. |. 5151.

‘5337. Lat, “Karothorus" (col, 2); but before, Carracorinus; 00

‘note to 1. 5002,
S377. “It is ouly needfal for thee to grant (assent) to give me what
Lega Laake for,"
5401, “Quis ost to, domine? At ille rorpondit, Ego sum Thinthisns,
jiuemos inundanos
‘itatem [i. 0, Alex
andriam|), et nomini meo non construxisti templam ;" £1, back, col. 2.
Je lib, iii, @ 67, cali thin deity Sesonohoria,

S413. “T have told thee ere now;" aco 1, 1103, Lat, “Si asset
homini nota cavsa mortis, dolore intollerabili mouervtur;" ib, ‘The
F, toxt is corrupt; in 1.5414, Z stiould of course bo he, “Wore that
‘evidence known to any man, of whut (were hie) doom, thon he would
die for sorrow." Serapis, being immortal, not de a all

‘GAIT, “Ibi fabricabitur sepulerum tau

GH2, A wert this griffin is given on the title-page of Falli-
well's edition of Mandeville’s Travels ; soe ch. xxvi. of that book, p, 269,

6458. Det tad thir: “With gold on their heels" i. 6, knights
‘of rank, who wore gold apa:

5467, Tat“ obtoloruat a ei mauera, scilicet spongias albas et pur-
preas mire magnitudinis ot conchas maxima, per singnlas duos vol
‘tros soxtarios continentos, Necnon et tunicas do vitelis (sie) maximia
confoctas, ot vermes quos do ipso fluuio attrahebant, quorum grossitalo
eta hominis, et eorum gustus erat dulcis vt ee eee Ot

« Pondus antem do vnaqnaqne morena erat ducentarory
neqeagieta Vibraram 5” £2, coll, 1 and 2

an

ry

NOTES TO p. 276, Il. 5656, 5677. 317

throno erant imagines vndique constitute, in quibus erant versus scripti
Grecis jiteris et Latinia nomina omnia prouinciaruin que seruiebant
Alexandro ;” £3, back, coll. 1 and 2.

5656. This list of names is not in the Latin text. Panthi is Parthia.
‘Many of the names seem to be inserted at random, and the list includes
places scattered over almost every part of Europe and Asia; compare
the list of places conquered by king Arthur, as given in the alliterative
Morte Arthure, p. 2

5677. The fragment ends here. The rest of the story, as given on
pp. 276—278, is abridged from the Latin text, leaf £3, back, &e.

NOTES ON THE “STORY OF ALEXANDER.”

P. 280, 1. 42. See p. 42, 1. 893 of the Poem,
1» 11.45, See Il. 4019—4066 of the Poem ; and cf, J. 4194,
P, 281, 1. 62, See Alexander and Dindimus, p. 3, 1. 69.
vy 172, See the same, p. 4, 1. 88.
», , 175. This story is neither in the Romance here printed, nor
in Alexander and Dindimus. The same remark applies
to the next story, beginning at 1. 120.
P, 283, 1. 135, See p. 274, 1. 5617.
» 71140. “One of the grettest lordez” may refer to Ptolemy of
Egypt; but the story referred to is iusufficiently
indicated,

Bydono, ade. forthwith, 2699. Seo
Bydone), Bed ra

wien as tn
befisre, 770%,

& eet up, 26735 pp.

ati Pats re we, =, 700% 1000,

i7. See Boline,

eat ya rd ai

“zat

‘Caben, *. cabin, tent, 4775; Cab-

cable ab Sea

Oey Lat, Cathomi, 5439,
Cache, v. take, nese, 2417;
to guin, 4872; Cochis (Caches),

en oe

»), & cave, hollow, 730%.

errer for Chaftare (ae shewn

ty the 4 chnfor,
traffic, intercourse, 4603.

Caggin (ean) r#, draws, fnst=

‘be numerous @x-

tits teetinterottoopen | Gal
fasten,

), ger. to,
bly
Caine, “e- return, S007:
(Geers w. retarn, travel =
air 1
come, cone Ee See
B12; Gaires (Cary en 63;

6804 1889

a Gald,

, Caren.
a (Catef), adj. eaititf, vile,
Cried, + oxi wretah, | 9078s
cai if jena (Gu Saf. mont
wnt vege TROT,

fais.
1699, 4928 ; a

7
Calle) yer to call poo, 2244
Satis Se afte 1077;

4, 659) Call , 2198
Gs; umnescle 6108) Caled
summon
vealed, 638 Cold
eet 820; reckoned,

Calodane don), Chaloedon,
ete al wa,
Calodo ) pL men of

ah Gata Mere
4216; Cathe (Cou! pe ptt,

may soir
782; Dales,

ae
Damas- | _ Morris,

r, 4. Gay, 47, 168, 288 ; life, time,
"Be

yt

dignity, 229, See
adj, dainty, delicate,
mean

Dobato, a, strife, 4404,
Debato, v, debate, £416; Debatie
Debates), pris. fight, a17.
error: ton,
ie adj, courteous, p. 279, 1,

». | Debonerto, «. humility, 9274.

Declare, deal as es
latie, pr. 8, + (Dew
clare) 1705. pens
Declines, pr. 4 hange down, $322 ;
sinks, 2714; Dee
pr. pl. 1 p. net ill
clined, pt a. 1 brought
down, at ®

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Ded"YDuthy n deat HUIB.” Se

¢| Ded,» $19, aon 356

a deeds, 1005,

hare as

1396, pa 70 eh, a6. 8s

aa

GLOSSANIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OP Names, 355
adj. ‘leep, 225, 265, 896, 700, ponte hen a
00, 645 1908,
Be Bah EnES Seas
cS elena rae ae

Ser aoe,
Hold dear, | ph dues, 887.
pita 3 pas ph), 4 writing, better,
open te Daly deat 813, U4 996,908
| Beek Bea (Dea Sieg Dae
| ono vbr, 2351; Deve (eres eel Ded
*. lon | 1268. lo,
| « ‘2041. A.S derion. | Detiraty, Lat, Tyrum, 5696,
aids, deary, ear-| Deol 2 pr: diileah 4816,
| ee U ? vi eseisibore |
Dere-worth, oj precious, dear, ce 67; Die
| Sere! "ites Deveag gor to tel 4919; (Denised),
adj. bold, 1968, 2667, 8850; | ” pp. explained, 1 ed ;
157; Derfo, uc | Devoid, ger. to destroy, to gut rid
S118; stop, ria a enth WYapicha aioe Hes
2 et. 2st; Denne, re
2081; Devoid, pr. pl 1p. eschew,
Cogs Nou TOek, $8275. Denade pare lina ies,
a y
pay veda ly] ed), pf. a. hid way, 2038
5 A 8000; (1 pl. 1 p. emptied out,
Sees Sees
a i" voi
at : Rt 1a
® S442. Deuowrid, pp.

Dare aod sly Desyéic, eo catered,

liga pede tape

Dena, # dais, throno, high soal, 47, ; ae ,
a

—

lll

diviner, sorcerer, 406,
ecm 2

on, 23, S447 ; (hight),

Mi

‘OLOBBARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NaMus,

307
es ready, 8013; onlained,
treet dio; andi, treated
8205, 7a :

Ps Bo eaites ‘bo
aid eh preity Do

do; Do Jendis, do go on,
4902; Doo ph 2
fame BUR ie aap

jommpe, ¥. down, descend
wri, fall, 4487. Bee dumpen

MS ln

=

GLOSSARTAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES

74 & dread, fear, 2140 ;

foar,
Dredfall, ai dreadful, 369,

withou
Bee recat IA72; creeps
jures, S31, ree.

a
ree Sie Dromyd, pt.

v. bedrowned, 8274 ; Dren=
Feeco Test: allt

), pl. ates
to till, ey, 867, 1777,
ly ye soe iy; pai f
Tew coe
oe Se
oe ‘ais
744, 961, 1233, rEg ahha el?
Drece, aij. dresry, 4804, el it the
rere, rey ae des ireary, at

of
Drerely, early, naaly, 030;
Brey Peat, 2099"

bi j. dreary, sorrowful, sad,

eienda Tl? peo atari
appolat, 801% ; Drest

Gresed, adorned, S01, Bee
mS 1647, 89055;
+ (Dryven),

i
Droyo, adj, todious, weary, long,

and should have
too the footnote, See dre in
Matxuer,

J rannayance (it tediousness),
D it, nod.

nya cakaitbenbie 26
‘mont tedious; aed

ae
Set

Bou
Bence — si
.
seats ate! reer i

ati
ae {Deyreah aa
1808) Drane

fa sane hurrying, 882. of +4
7 1 of time,
, 5082. Bee

interval,
AL 4

Drigten, «. a lord, the Lord, 800;

¢

S457, G400: Drigten
ane ie 5 518;

he:
Prghtenes), gen Lori's Heo
Droimondrs, pt dromedares, 080,
i, pl. swift vomole, 64,

Low Lat dromondus, from Glee
Spiny, 8 awiR whip.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES.

or, ee boaiind 3929; (Dia-
Dri. is. Dinas, for

wpe pls (Oya aly, wet,
die, 1100, 1874, 2155;
po 8b; Dr ¢

bottom of the ml
‘or dyke, 712, See Dike,

ied (Demmyd), pt, #. grew dim,
Drrnly ade diy say, 718
Bers din, noise, 2618; (Dyne),

mn, Dindimus, 4644.

. blown, 451,

enditings, words, 2312%,

Dyseree, adj, diverse, 85,
Ebland, 160, 8723
vhora'it fllowe fix ‘cave), 4023,
$085; Bola, 43 Dan,

land, pro

ict {had
nonoaget (them), together, also,
8910, ‘See above. =
Bhi, Hebrew, 0072; Kbrucs, Wo.

Bbya, ra en won 3682,
Kunio, 1y-tree, S681, G1S5,
Behewis, pr. 2 exchew, 4603,

dirs, pranieg ii 4108.
Ray 'pP. baile (u house), p, 281,

Bee wes, stream, 5464. A.S fa,
fea Bee Bye.

aint as saith 783) Ete,
pala, 5061,
after, 95,
J ronda £01), ie; (asen

for, 3162, 3183; according to,
the likeness of;

of a
rhen ale, atierwanle, 206, 309,

361
478, 4773; Rt 614;
fie, ce ee ee
Efirsns, ode. again, 408. S00

rte
Saar tapes

as, 1200 i Ege,

les of a hill, ries *

6, Wenlock lock ge (slop)

sae ‘76,

ie, bagi ne Ue Unt egestas
Bate (Eanes egging, inatigae

g 71, 186, 1
one ipt), 1132; igi
Eg ad, sharply,’ 561, 580;
Sagerly, 315! etic $88}

_ ss ition, ae
landa, prop, name, pit for Hollada,
i, @, abe Tall (ive note, pr
803); 3100, B106 (see note, p.
805), In 1.3106, perhaps Blam
‘iv moant.
ld, needle: Ane ald = nel, La
as wosyll.
wile eh 28, Ob 164%, 6152:
Ke, great aye, |
Eli, age, 616; CEM), toi,
Ener {elder ai, rather, 1018,

ape ee helder; ¢f. Tock
Aeldr, rather,
eid. Heldest, mnost pare

older, 616;
fener yy eldce, 1444

. | Element, «, element, 60 ; Elementes,

pl olen 542, 680; EI
Et (ilonntey tee | ee
Eife, ». elf, spirit, 5258,

GLOSSARIAL, INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMIES. 363

(Engynez) a
Paaiarmed re. jared, 4668,
‘caught as wih bine, } aoe

we, PP. 02)
Ee et on Tenable doll,
Bl Ph ph 235) PR

Eabansia (Eshaunee) prt. on | En

ectalta, 2714 5
gh s.1'p, enhanced, rl J, rained, 6088 ;
(Enhaunsed), pp. ad-
vanced, increased, 25107 (in-
Launsyd), 3496 ; Knhansed (En-
Ihnunsyd), exalted, 2498,
Taheresie (nherets) pr. rk Bp. dost

Huaherie a lhe 688 Seo Koerd,
% enjlt, lay a command,

TEE ere
aay

7 hor, S68;

tt
& inpyd 5 error for Limpid.
lt) or fr Ba em,

mae 819, 2681, 9096 ;
Ban hs He ee
(Bnsays), 1261
Bangin wet,

a facta at
ite

follows ite substantive), 21:
feo ay Bio, a Er,

ep a song saan i15

raphe
h Op

rs 2 a lai

8878: parable,
scan Enastnp) le),

+ | Eusurid, pp. promised,

|, 2638,
Entorely,adu entice whol, 2700,
$213, 5 Ene
rel ji i (Batesly),
Entoris, pr. « intors, 4017;
Eni 8323,

90; 1433
tad (Batred), pp. 1916; Thin,

Entring,r.entoring, beginning 4158.

Engrs Cin tor ae ent, ta
dotail, 1261,

Bavemonde nde (Engenmonyd), pp. ene
venowed,

Enverom, yer. to surround, 8617;
Ynvirounis, pr. 4 environs, 6527 ;
Enveronis, environs, surrout
40925, Haverrouns, resounla
through, pervades, 4780,

Bnuy. envy 4256 Nigh

¢ pol adv, onoo, 1

Bpoetloa, bypooriey, 4682.
Byalnow a cquinex, 4158:
roHO13 (Be), 949, 7979.

rand + momage, 1467, 3770. Soo

Errande.
Eroules, Hercules, 703, 2184, 4538,

OLOSBARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES.

haba atraightway,

Even, “ae make il, 4483 5
me ma

rue Meo

wae

ame, BIB,
aem 2598; Bufm=
hinrm, 169!
res ade over, B29, on (Buer),
Euire in ane (Euer ouon), contina-
Eoire-iik, aif, each, 4497.
Buuure te siger Tunas’ 4109
Buon a irsrs, 3080 ; Baoor, 375
ont, 275.
ete Eup 046, 2997; Europ,
Buy,
ee Cre egal, 5182, Seo
a aly fll, even, ius
oe sin Tati; Eayn on
Ie. even on, fully
hou Xshe host), 1793.

Euyn, © evening, ove, 350, 3055,
desis dis; Rayan en aa aden the

by

an

& Kurne, tho cast wind,

Estat (Exclu), yp. what out,

Exidraces, pl. x nation of Gymno-
opin, 102. :

a ise, practine
chars 81, Sllece 3 anda
for x)
Beef Deny, +, foar, heed, care, 731,

Eye, » eye, 222, 1589; Eyen, nt

365

re BH, 498, 603, S151, cay
1), 688, 1133, ss #
flgag ey),

Fa, adj, few,
f hear Foe) 181
“isa (Bea) 3100. Boo Face,

ai.
Eable, & fable, 1886.
"a. face, 600, 965; Face to

face, 367,
Faculte (Faculter) ph, posmeesions,
father, 2323; (Fa~
aden, 701, wo,
96: Fadiro, 600 5 (Jee , Tat,
1658 ales), 74 5
pl fathers, 8: (Fader), 1075.
Baie oe ry 53095 (Fades),
Hons toon, 3081, 30065 {Fone
. ar 23 See as oe
iow
Faille,

wrong, 2966 ;
fails us, 1006; Failed,

Fale, «

pits

‘adj. “nin = 125, 1847;
Bair), 1541, 2116,
Faire, nt fan el azantly, 196,
424, 636, 878, bog, 1041

1695, Tio0s ook vio a:

eourleouly 2780 (Fairy kindly,

aan 24T8y (Eure, aulesy, 2250,
airy (Hare) wolf, 20

ire,

rere (Reina, ,
Fatrerg Cheitane én MS fei

a greater pat, 1238

a conn, TA

rnp foe 1 Tee, 217, 810,

1848, 6082; (Bucs), 1034. See

al 3 Bas

OLOSSAMIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OP NAMER

v, fare, prosper, 1788; go,
Dandi eae

BRZE
ua
i

TEqf isate

ue,
an - E
3
22

Ds Ff 700;
at fee

hizoer, p. 102,
const firm, 46165

tant, ceri
505; Shien,
acarchingly,
lonely, 133, He

881; sis tu
0, S944 ; Faste, close,

A

x
He

iu
As

Ls
n

He
es
z

a
i

corks
Faster, ade. comp. faster, R47, 943 ;
Fustir, more quickly, 1805 ; ‘more,

®
aynes,

, rijlon, 1788:
yrs ghuddens, 4681; Fayns,

i] Fadi, ‘ger. to

367
rm dnpers ae delights,
reek, feokTe, 2359,

aa
a4, Faynte), 1275, 1738,
ri ch Dir ts

ae ve Hikes), Itt gon

Fai fair, 2019.
pie enna it

ph 8

Feit a weakness,
is geae 1710, 1276;
“na oor, 1610; Febill (Foble),

to fetch, 884; Feches

35 pe wh

fod, 1,
el) 217, Fede, imp pt
€ aan ey imp, ph Lp.

vedi adj, gerhapa fat fatied, wall
d, in good er

is fedele i
Gloasaries, ed, Wale,
190. If tha word boof French
may mean ‘faithful,’

Peete, M fect, B44, 4168; (Fete),
2852; (Pote, sing), 1960; Feet,

1
Feet (Fe eee
Tet (a vi Pitas foute dosh

es, acts, 81

behaved, in Sir Gawayne and the
rene Knight, 1282, From feet,

Seo
Bealone 8 vessel, small vi, 1860.
Sia fetes in
Feet, ade, wall si eveatiantty; 4219;
Feetely, 3694.

ito Fer.
1167, Sno;

4282. Teel.
wer | |

i,
Is
E

i
nate

7
3

lores, 4908,
ten “ol

* mes "i68).
bles, provides (for
.Thik verb is per-
from, ites, ab,, a com
It anawere rather (

I

Ht

vf
Fere,
‘zac!

Battie
ie
5 isk §
32233"
3g
ea te

tener, p.102. See
wondered,4761; Ferlid,

jarause 4007 Ferlyd | Fes!
(arlydy, won lered,

i" strange, wereioun 66f,
tae AS. fibrtic,
ral, ra wonderfully, ens 3

sete il jagttreely, ve

rt

0, 457, 3188;

Yornas won 896, 601, 926,
Ferlyd ; see Forlied.
Ferme, adj, firm, 8259; (Ferme),

Permes, fai 4012 5
ied

Fernes (Forneass), & distance; 0
Zornes (On fornesse), in the die-

tance, 1424,
Forro, adj. far, distant, 210, 1057,

a Fore), adv, fur ; To ferro, too
far, by too much, 2086.
comp. farther, moro
dvaneed, 6837 more, 5160.
okie 3492/8878, 4396;

comp. farther, 4671 ;
"Feria: Re Forryre, 98; (Ferre),

ee

ae

Fersly, 4 itor one
Forsly (Borely), 2208; (eruly),

Feruent, adj. hot, 3871.
Beuike, & p is? AB,
Feuisan FRyweyen), physictan,

(Fen Seek, for Ee, pp. 00

te Pr f fastens, 6518 ; atin

ids him fast (7), 8308 (but

Pi an error for frayetes, as in
hs MS.) 5 Fea, rp fasten,
2280; Fest, 1

itl
fasten, f rt) set 240; grote }
fastened, 807; Pest,

ese vii 120 0 Pence,

yp. faster
Puntid, pp, feasted, 1
Beating 5 (Bean: ), he fastening,
ort, hi

Foto, #. action, movement, lit, font,

80; feat, doings, 4366 5 (JFetez),
Fetaakie ae ph fetlocks,

ar covering
of fexthers, $694 ; Fethire-hames,
same. 0 10. AS feder~

GLOBSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OP NAMES

oe ales

aaa
flakes, 4165, Lowl. So.

Fi
pr. & barns, flamos, 558;

HeotneiP

Hara
oe a

wines.

Flandres, Flanders, 5674.

Flane, pl. arrows, 3889; Flanes,
Fy ET salar
doable glut “Soe Fgne age

Fange ( longs) ma long,

ca os i hs Mashed, rushed

ade, flat, 1135.
mass of snow, 1756,

Fawn
Goo Plaggin,

Flawmes, pl, fumes, 3871, 4784,
See Flammes,

Eis ‘arrows, 17674, Soo
Fey Mv. flee, 988 Flees (Fleer),
I. theo, go, 8180; Flad, pl. «.

186,
Bic (eh 86 Ses 2.

Flokire, pre & AS.

a (pie
Flete, a. "in host, Paes fh B.
ee. hall, 821. AS. fa

Fllngee, pr @ Nara, shoots, 9899 ;

read fol; seo the | Flitt,

371

3784;
Ss? Hed
tight

if, & flight, S044.
Fligt-loomes (Fiyght-lomés), pf im-
pane it, means of flight,
10.
Flode, «loo ne, 658,2460; river,
2119, 3814;

less ‘of
toara), 1183: (Flodez), ; eae
1300." See Pde

jai curum ey oe

bent, i sooms to have

gested thitranaation) The Therigit
rm is rather ih

er florin) ir Sean lew mice

Henk with his florantis” means

swith it Horing,” i.e, to eneey
his florins or money, S90 Flor-

aed 47175
o aowared, ed,

Flosches (Florshes), iad ners 2049.
See Siosche in fo
Ef a the Mion te

Flote, a: (lit. fleet), seman

-GLOSSABIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES.

or conf. becuse, 2196, 2478 2651,
;

ee tithe alas thet-oortaet

Yr
r foe it eae mation 471,
Forcelott, 6. defence,
a
‘orces | Sor apap tek rae a

ace F Forced
Beeeeee, Eos

HO6T | Porclang, arp SU. Sos

Toes zp. focsited, done amiss,

2 Joan (2
pen ly from the AM
eee
th thn presi
og clei and,
to disorder, to mar, ‘h
here used fn the intransitive
sense, ‘to nem marred ' or *to
sccm’ disordered to be out of
condition.
Fo pp. exhausted with
Roe Porfonagitan, 3 AL

Fore ie
itty,
nae Sea esas Lgese Sogire,

Fomieacion, fornication, 4485.
Secs ph foragere, scouts,

373

Zig wheretore, 4584;
Forqui, 43:
Rormake, gr ta give up, 280; Yor

10a, | gure aya pp. 2888,

‘oraen 5

Fores’ a caapali dora,
See Forcelet,

For-sothe, adv. of a truth, forsooth,
verily, 865, the, 498;
Forsothy 1

+ Forso!

For-eworn, igor pp. for

‘sworn, 1

rorthe (Forth),
For Fate Hah ee

Forthe (Forth), v. afford, iar ‘AS.

Forthi, conj: therefore, 3466 ; For,
ail. 4279; on that account,
Forthin arya apa tor
ing ie yu at juarter,
Seth Lik farthingdoas

For-thinkie (or-th
Spares i Foon ae re
pente him,

rarthire, (For-
ther), L907, 1989 ; (Berber, Bla;

Forty, forehead, 319.

Fortrausilid (Por-traveld), pp. worn
with travail, 1009,

(Foretyred), pp. tired out, 1009.

Forward ‘orwanles, pl), 8, aireo~

Fonwani ‘orthward), forward, 847,
Forwith Bore rae 5;
+ in prosence of,

Penterd 2729;
set noua, Od.

Lys FFeatering, bringing up,

Feta vio 3290 A fota (On foo), 0
ht foot, onb foot, 24235

Bis ts pa

15 mie
orted 198, "The earns
only fotes (= foots), oecurs also
pr Gavi and! the Grene

GLOSSAMEAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES

pew, BOL;

Gresho),

val et Pec (Littrs).
oe

Frotin ph fe ven irritate,

8680,

padre covered,

Frot (Lvett), 1642 AS,

ae ‘ph ormaments, 4338, AS,

Beles

p

among the bret, ou
‘A, lias on frat).
fuiths, forests, woods,

ieee men of the

1. (Fro), 742%,
the time

=
a

i

oS
F

2
ne

if
Be Ey
fF
ean

Hl

.& charge, rush,
ue te Troy-book.

ing, 8
its it aE ites,

ae
Fy

52885

Grndon! pale
igi fulAl, $173.

fa ce 6, 112, 888

Rane oh fated
Ives’ seems (0 mean full

H
Full, wile

375

of thoir troubles, fall of anxietier,
Jn 2168, we have af the full =

, 65, 129, 149, 171,
tae (Fal hey),' very

hi
(Fully) adv. full, 1590,
Fulth, A plenty, abundance, full-

FH Pus Pander) pr, & founders,
: up,
906, Furs MED pl furlongs, 3306, See

(raretontly farrow's length, fur
long,

Purves, ph fary, 4338, O.B. four
res A 286, 335 ;

ir forward

Furth, fordh, way 83 4

Furth in with euyn,!

von, far advanced in the evening,

ici Herr asomy ray
Figll fu, ads, full, vory, 2197,
Fyetne | Fiance) confidence, 1641,
v0,

nn, fifth, 8845.

2867;
Te aera aioe a
Fyld (Feld), 4, field, 1948.

2, rubj. ray Mill, 2168%,
to be. ly

pate fd ah, fat, bra
‘yndez), ve 8,

a bim-
ym), cee 2 =

ape

om to imma 3

in, adj. fine, 1512, 1600, good,

fing, clear, transparent,

“hike:

male finaly, 2766.
nely, ade, finely, 3220,

GLOBSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OP NAMES.

1213 iin on emo

onset ‘rand "860, aoe

(Gauo) wet Gauo
, 190%; Gay, ade,

37

dicen, 4600; equ
SSIS, Goat imple

Garhi pt
one aie a 4911; Gaile, | Gore,

Gaynos, oe & avails, 181;

Ate to help, be ey nee,
enrest, shat:
3 At the om

ue by the antet a

ee ere ba3%)
am Convenient,

Godire 20815
ag + Gedire (Geder),
101 (Geile er B15
aed
211; Gedirs pr. at 8
eee
died 6130)
1725; Gedderys), 2400,
Geere (Gere) stuff, gouty pro-
winon siz”
Gerezete Faia;
i man ) #. 1826 5 hs
pk Ipietse in
font take er geet

Roath = mae a ‘ow meet-

ai
Seite ection ‘Gents,

Gentile meas
Oras say » complately,
Geaiilrian {Gentellaman), a gealle-

2664,

s

485,
Gesteeh

t
mony
= a $ ets
obtain,

gan . ehild, aa So is beg 4

891, 435, 473, 87
Gene," ger.’ to

Beets
#2327; Gi

ii 5377; Genes

Gide, 4. guide, 4968, 6047,
mal Sah 5387 ; Gidid,
guided,

oi oa

.

GLOSSARIAL IXDEX, AND INDEX OF AMES,

loriest),

‘a ee

Glotony, *. , 8266,

Glone 5 1984;

cc ies eee
« becomes gloom) pny

Gl 7 to daze Took
a te a.

Glyerynand (Gl

dite gta Se”

ingens
mare Gohiaus (3 (Gaia,

mae a te rere

ode |. © God, 107

Zs Godin

876 ; Gods (Godex), ;
id, 807, 5A10 | Godin tT

jode), good, B04".

: is oddesves, 1674.
Godheda, « godbend,
aan

Gods (Gudea), pi. goods, wealth,

ror heap "pres pt blowing : hence,
Tainy, tempestuous, 4796, Cf.
Toak gola, guia, 0 fale breeso, got,

bi
Geld, a gol IS ea 607; gold
Sas ee, the Bott)

ee rs ekden maetieare (ata),

Gali la rd cor (ne

‘& man, 391, 417, 435, 616,
Goa) sin 960, dst, 10912209,
8276 5 ef 1190, 18855

‘ph mon, L417, 2064, 3387,

+ (living):
ates Got 0 3,
2531 ; Gomes, pl ak gy. AT,
Gone, a BL
rae 8037; Gorg, neck,
rod, 3645,
et oen, BBO.

, xoul, 448, Seo

pe

of mil
Bott oe
jouerne (Goues

8387 (wh Hone he Kable MS hes

gounere); (Gonern}, 1978,

Goueraus ovesein), 6
"or 1038, ete ey
seas

outer, gules rel 4085, 00003 of

crete a
oy), pres.

Grader taveun grace, 807, 358,
994; success, glory, 2534; Gracis,

Gibinyer, lit thanks, 8896.
{Graceux), gracious, 798%.
jracious, adj. Deantiful, 3867;
(Graciouso), gracious, 1748, 1844 ;
(Gracieos), favouring, 1964,
acount ‘adj. superl. most hand+

908.
Grud (Grud degraded, 2490.
ore cnn igh F

Graithe, w rae nl gm

direct (1n} or
imal ‘ot dg outs

(Grathez),
(orien

Onsithely con yeaa readily,
i Bariy, readily,

Gnaithist (Grethest)
prepared aot met Ted,

Gramere, grammar, 681,

“GLOSSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES,

ioe 1988; aja 4157;
; 2485,
ee ca

G great, 65, 958,
eo vith aids 4695

iro ay Bec nd pipe
(Greta eve 2
Put Grom Gre 5012, fee
orto. (fi abi nate}

cea Bandy be the

ae Broves, re al Seo

plas
Grids, pl ontario 644, Gus Saaie
be the sense ; but the prexere-
Aion of thie OF. form pride te
remarkable, ag tho usual O.F.
form ia always eri; only Italian
hax the form grido, a ory, shrink,
ontory. ‘The Span. has bene a
rida occurs in 0, Spanish,’ Boo
av.
Mode pl geina, 6459, 8818,

852, afore Grinding, A002

Gripis, pr. pl. wolze,

| Grins, a rvaltures, 6499 5 Gripis

pis of our gomen, jratures
Scie pon our men
Grippin, ph

| Grea, ah al hn Horrible, 4728;
fully, 38

or shuktering, ines ase,
as in
patie Me) Ct Dane orm

os G eis ody ged, 1467.
Tse, pripl 1608! Grote (ret), | Grote, «cero, Gre ie the
1 1638, regular word ons amine
, adv, creel 472; (Grottly), | tho Derbyshire miners;
ak 5300; | (Crome) «mun, 2101,
‘Gratin tages Xaretter), 1267, Gren, ® ground, land, 3077, 4705;
CGrethenteenglypests (Grot| 787 3867 Gromde, grou 1882
fxt), 1904, 1911; Grettisy $07. | (Grund), Land, 19797 (Grunt),
Grottis, pl. great (tnen), 3651, ground, 1215, and,
Gretyng, & weeping, 3238, Gronde, pr. pl. 2 p. ground, found
Grenes, pr. pl. pain, 2012. (upon ta base en ly upon),
Greves, pt greaves, 9808,
Greues, pl. groves, 4044; Grove, a prouring, 8288
4684, “Grouse (Graves), | Grouod, pe a grounod, granted,

GLOSSARIAL ISDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMIC 383.

‘acan hale) i he tock opt | Halt,» evinens Aaa

in alliterativo

Hath er Halt phe sides,

Halfo, a 1368,
Hae id ied, adj. halts

weft {Haydon pt holyrolieg
66 eat Reiger, Ds heli

11,490; Halle,2922; (Halle),

Hall at or Halls, teat, «148
fe, a tent, pavilion
Hallie

Halows, pl. Holy
Hals (Hal
Halsis ia Pr. & Filan
2576; (Iulays’ vmbe), pr. «. em
braces, 3260; Halsid, pé 6. em-

holy, sacred, 584, 1457,
lee Powe 4996; (Holy),

rade, palin, 987, 108;
are Hame, & home, ua, 6 461, 820;

er. eal abo awa," 4003, "5270;
Halden, Home), 2921; Hames, pl. homes,

a toss 152, 4660; (Homes), houses,

1679; held, 441; Halden (Hal- Tatewaiie Vickie eae
mn + OHal | 9800.” ae i

Hames, pt, plamage, it. coverings,
4986.

$540; extocrned, 2150. Hanpies gr a eroenteee
ma ei rer givon Pe peed ape rrp
kit ni aanpted, an are

ips by a ann (Hanehyd an ae
fcr lean over; neh eaten, , mn
prea!) te eouea ose will

co adj. sf whos, 4A, B18 a the tea srnawed of, 774%. * Fan.
pe 632; sol cher, to graspo, or anateh at witl
safe and sound, 220 whole ar | te feet" r Cotgrave,
Burst, 4437; sound, good, 810% | Hand « hand, 8% 114, 198; On
Toel. heiil, hand, clove 'at hand, 47913 At
Hin, w uplift i. bale, dag), 724] bands near, O1 Hand al, 44,
icy come, 817; pr ph | 980s je (To hand), to

ir sh, ag SSnh Hai, rae | clove combat 1956; Vadlre
5 ey ales ts ndor hand), for manual skill,
lea), pr. Dh hale 7; Handit, pl. hands, 6568,

854; Halia
drag, 2224,

GIORSARIAL ISDEX, AND INDEX OP NAMES 385°

a ee Hee ienes Ineetful, 3928,
eas Hedously, ae, hideously, $008 ;
ative form of the adj. Aawere- (Gyduniy), 160. 4 y
poor, Shrop- Hass (Heyd), ger. to watch, heed,

Heelia, pl. heels, 5476.
Home | "umbes, colsedon? G1B8
| | Here (for Wods, a2 én the Dublin

MS), 776, See Haire,
Holl, ger, to hoave, saiso, exalt,

Hegai, pl. hedges, stioke, 5163,
| as a

(itahe gt. wie was salle,

at On heght, on
bic incline, bow down, 726;

ed
it 989,

GLOSSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES

tL
i

p

i
i

A.
f, ‘8160;
rie 1938, tel

F
af
Hint te
E523
Fale &

Here, +. hair, 4559. The Lat. text
te relut gee ete

a

lored, 1637)
1616, AS,

Seapine
ro
Havdhereati hereafter 18

‘Hero-fore, conj, therefore, for this
reason, 4565,
re a laiaeeoe tl pl. arm

ta, LOLO,
Bondy pr “i 900. ‘Soetieed
‘Heria, pr. 4. nem,
Teed) Hori x barse, nv.

eee Killed, 4
veal, 617; defeated,

a tad;
962, 2667; Heris, im
3p hear, $302 * ero Hore,
Boris (Heres), pl lords, 1920, See
Herken, ger. to listen to, 6; to hear,

i ge sen, 2135 Herken,
frepie 3p Deathon tha, 740

“air” Gin Glee y “a piece, 1718,

"1895;
panne, zat.

Lit Hes
Herne, Zio, £9, BAB, 0.

ie i of ae
erat

extolled, 2498: (Here
Cf. Teel, reir,
mh ono 225; , 470,
re Betts Ht pi hearts,
onrage, 988, a8
et et A hat 1062, 10083
Herts pr heatens, encourages
Heatly, ade. heartily, 1660, 2676,

wlan Site ger, to. = ter 2509;

(Berend)
Jom chet

Seo Here,
La

promiacs, 1076; Hootie,
Heste, 4.) commands,

'

eatin’ (Hecetse), heats, com:
oe eek 8791 (Hen, 1618;
i ot), 1618;
Heat, 9803; hoat, burn:

33,

romnise, 1075, 2086; 1 pr.

y 3176; Hotes (Highten},

fr Ft promise, 2398, AS. hdlan,
a

eit.

rt See Hetire, Hatirly.
Hethen, adv, hence, 4487, 4565,
4850," 4938, Toul, héban.
Hethenward, hence, 734.
Hething (Hethyag), «. soorn, 1714;
Baume (Hethinge), 1869, Icel,

Hetire, i, Hetter, bold.
ee etc, fall of

Houed; « bead, 2487, 9090, 6622
ened,
Ces), 761%, ith B12; chit,

(Heued) for Heueded pp. beboadod,

Houen, , heaven, 66, 84.
Heaee pr «lifts 15893. (of),

GLOSSARIAL INDEX, ASD IXDEX OF AMES.

ahaa

packer rales
as, hae, 1488 {lanes
(i it Tandon
Tayln juil, 4821,
[ehe), ench, 1647.

Te ae Soe ed aarhy oo
teri for gumines, ce. resinous
gums, 4974. See the note.

Tentillman (Gentilman), gentle-
mam, 2249,

ee Ail, 1454, 1470, 1488,
Tosserand, ie coat of mail, 4961;
Tesseruntes (Iesserauntex),
‘coats of mail, 2450. oop a
in Cotgrave.
tand,

i proud 4678,
fous Drege Ud; Tettir,

ter
Tors (loves), pl Sows, 1191, 1587,

Tool a0 Bis Tewor, 1171,
(lewres), an error for Iowis
ment, doom, 1191. O.F. Juioe,
The right reaiting ia—1 eball vecho
enioyne oF

j. each, 1 9608 ; (Uke)
‘st, th is vei 1879 same
80, 41) sume, 861,
inch rey fa Sat, S09 (Uke,
= ‘Sek iis eee,

Pik ons) 3908; Cheboned

391
soa (Ukon), 21185; Ikan,

Fie an 1699;

mages, dole, 4068,

Impid, vat tia in, sot with,
aa

Ini, “qhobte, 4819. Seo the

Io, prep in, 28, 24, dee,; (Into), én,

In with = in-with, prep. within,

eee tes

ito enchantiient, 837,
Incheson, 4 vecasion, cause, reason,

Tnclosid (Enclosyt), pp. enclosed,
Tnolynes, pr. inclines, bows, 5207,
Indies, a o indites, 4041.

fer teed (Dityng), pl. inditings,

rfers), adv, togother, 8968 5 In-
fore, 1969, 1276, 8602, 8989, 4278,

In-feres, for In-fore, ade. together
no ay » adv. together,

informed, 334
gis 3 rt
past a

land, 8663.
pl. inhabit, dwoll, 4020.

Ingland,
abet,
Inet, ‘habitation, dwelling,

pe (Enhaunsos), yr, 4, 0n-
hance, Le advances promotes

Indo commands, orde
ee ‘010; laloneyd), pre

In vay pr in the midst of,
rt oy

ing,
Tags hee, ig fa Paar q

Ino ere “adj. yh. enough

GLOMAMAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF ames,

+ verily, 4983 5
aoe Ge
Mee ae turn myself,
Se aes | ‘ 108

fut

eo See
Ds pre

eansih ate

(Kast), « contrivance, 2134; Kastia
(Gasee) pe oats throwinge,

Kast, rive, 426; Kast
att aside, = Koss (Cnet)
pr. & overthrows, Kyst,

3
fntnde, 1688 Ran pe
Troe pe, ba, i ios ae

3 See Kaire.

in MS. Katht
Mou caught beld of 2020. Sos
(Keck, rs takes (lose),

Ked) excellent, 1229, See Kid.
Killip casts, hairpin 4600,
reticid "

“Kelle, lum ;? Prompt.
Kell-wyse; nga kale, in the
manner of & See
above.

sl to hae horo, ehcp
rato tech ie
199g, 32

5513;
$407; slowed, gave, 5383; Kond,

ipe. aoe A638;
Pet

oa 2983
aod ‘Pp. ‘te ‘lis:

cemed, 3148,
Kondly, ade. kindly,
inca i tei

nly,
barely,

(Kenly), ado, keenly, greatly,

boldly, 68,

Keno comp. keener, 544;
‘Kenft, ool "3089. ae

(Rengez), king's, 1040.

Kena, & keeper governor 617

eat 1202; to observe,
1192; ard, 72, 1480:
bcd, cae far, BO08s to inky
a Lope, Dr. &

care for heed, 3567 ;, care, Sal’

i amy cep thon,
Ea a

yourself,
Kero}, pr. a. outa, 1056
i cutting, 6
po bittor, 3818

‘fa.
Kast, u, onst up, reckon, O73; SB
aut, 2062, 3647} imayginedy

Korn-
8024 5
ceor-

GLOSBARTAL INDES, AND INDEX OF NAMES

Knits (Rayghten), pl 981, 1002,
katte (ean )s ee
hoo ayghthod),
iy), adj. knight-
3 Knockia

ee
ade Enis ee

abaky, unstendfast,
to ad

Jarnges, 63, 162, 1073, 081. Sob
1 Kin, kindred, 3316,

Kynd, « kind, nature, 28, 8380,
SOT A823 Face 20d (end) (Kond),

ae BE? Kya Kynde,
race,
ews: TRymlin pe tater

aan jaan

Kyndil . to kindle, 8190;
Winter a kindleg,’ excites,

eos
eae tinier ee

(Kyndele,
hin,

ie kindnees, 2718,
Ba, tie ‘4946.

reac boll mea, 2658 Dabiet
inclination,
wi 750 &e.;
el ‘ Ai Hl
yh, 18, 262, "
ing’s, 618, oat; kK:

Rae iti 1s eh a

Kynetome « kingom, 108
‘ynne); ‘Some kynwe. gamex,
se) caome kink, 98504

oat a Rises Abo Att ED

1085
ie kin

a it: =
| {yy rion
Sy sri a

i Fs
tienen, Re sa

Labour, pt pl laboured, toiled,

race Lacedmmonia, 2440;
lac Jone (Laeidon), 2471; (Lacy

lon),
Tachen, 1 tak, 28615 Lachey
at, 4347; (Lache), seize
ne 1489; Lashe, ger. to

ie pes expture, 1835.

“lads, low fal
Teves, 44 (hails), canny
Towers, 2591, 772%.

GLOSSAMIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES, 307

Caan emis
Hage 5 i po es ors

ip rgereltinn e-4
Hawes, domly, neaDly) 10ey 406,

ae oe 2868 On ae owe

oe ‘sak Sane

sano (usw), tenes daveit
wea}, ple

Lawly, adv, lowly, humbly, 3172.
" La eed

i Layenes (Lownys
"| Lay, « faith, religious belief,
pla lay, ‘See alao Lien
pt. lnid, i
laid, £07,
apa lay 38, See Laike.
Pa few rte
Laythely (Lothlyche), adj. louthily,

States rind ott ae as obsess
Lagt ityn), pt. pl. drew, 8193;
sil comp, ater, 981, Seo] Lat med eoaueed taken

‘CLOSSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAME

| Teale neti ai
|

sone

(Lennys), pr. 4 Yond, grants,

sar i,
al

114s; nis
ie Ph ars found 28
tadnelt, 6538; (Len:

tarcied, ‘aye
0 (hens), pr sau

Tent ppt he 281, 1. 66.
sn 3 tit, ustivod,

ede Leathe.
+ Leons, ph lions,

Tearns, 629; Lerivy
4661;
Toi

tterys Tearnt, tase
earn
Tsiuty bee x

Dublin MS. has Teat.
Loaard sda lizards (peobably croco-

| Siend in

1 Br. "6 2. anlt lowe,
Trey a eh
3

pr, & 2 p, sud, lewson, take

tte leat, Fria 4167; (Lest),

tone ces tnean) 523; At leston,

eae aes eran
mes

(ea) oe to Tet, 700;
% behaves, Accounts
Late, pt let, 750, 1898
icp rf ste Tate,

; Lete,
tas); Lee 3 girs
i a ett ig

ie iets
ee a Een

% Hikten to, 4470, A bad
Tay Ba tee Lithe, Lyte,

GLOMHARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES,

Lieknes, «Ii Cire) 23

, 2091, 8282, 4785, See

401
it happone to theo); Limp: pr:

Lite,

Tissers (Un Soot impid PEstymsyrd)y ne
wor, 7 Lim
1351; Li etka pb ed bhi em agile re
Lisldin, pl. lids, eyo-lide, 965, ane, impyd (Lin hs bi
3a ) ptm
Tig Bas Wodceas thao” (Lay), | topos, tebe sok
F todged, 1145. See also | Limmy, name, B405.
ih Hil atin, wet for ov,
Liga tif, 1918; (Lyfe, 2162;| 50085 Lindia, pie tresy, 6088,
Tis, ph lives, 5." 5257; lime-treen, 2861, 4760,
Hie i hs id: tite ops. | A048
linen, 9280 Lie (ive) on 1983 (Lr,
Cues) 965 Kia ines), tt | tne of iting, 4.
i 1 Tore (oh inte:
Ein tt te Lined id ite | igen oh Tioneeses, 5140, See
4 aN Oe; Tice, S45; tips ag 04a.
om to he 6501S Liew | Lie ah 308 ALS. lira,
uy. misused), 2101; His buke on | Li pleases, 8297,
oa i ‘is to, Saae
jonses (it), r it
aay, rests, I ist, does
i Foot) i, Mio) Dit
a pleasea, 2149 ;' Liste (List),
vile te me (ts wits
{see in are
reo ences easily, 1055, jessie ‘e ) di abe)
, Be relieved, cured, 2814, fi A
‘also Lists, Tiss et plated
Tike, ai hs, 240, £99, 654, 656; | Tie, ft, 2
ues 0 :
ute

(it) pl 22, 292, 525,
i plana, 2, 299,628,

vez), 987; Likis
ikea) 2 re

ee

P
§, ticks, 778%,
n keen 1p0, 382, Soo

“haan (1 880; Lip
Ee ari tem ae

S154 (eathed read
ALEIANDER,

: uy

iy), adv, wickedly,
vl, 100. Bee bata

72; Ui br, Th

with ef pleasures, 6615, Allied

ida 1, 507

fo, di 138, hare to cae 866,

9655 cisely, 1754. Seo Littill,

waits, 4. littlonoss, emaliness of
ture, 2505; (Litilayke), 1700

Gime

Ui iSite somewhat, 4392.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NABI

Lose v.to
Gone he eset toe

cho Uisene ates B71; Lox
a hoses
Losed, 6810; CLosyt),

Tavenere (Canyngcs), ling, 1999; |
- oes 5 an He 3

love, 1687.

2008. Toel, loser
Im of his hand, 2067.

Seo Loone.

Lanaly, adj, dear, 2289; (Lofely),

“ia, ade. beautifully, 426;

indly, 369; (Louely), lovingly,
Ling), ais, lowly, 1048

ler obedient,
SHH; 7 tw awa oy 8

m2
acon to, Bagh Yotl teas
ml Fern

bare 45 Lou
bowed down’ to, 3454.
Natan.

Tew; ba ise, peh low, 788%.

Low, *. Cie tee Jawa,
Lowa + Cowd),

Lowe, ane 79. AB log.
Lawsre 4 rowa reward, pera nao

eas) “ore loier

“reward,

sais | Loiecays da

403
Lownys ; 800 Lawnes,
(Lowsed), yp. ‘rained, 1960. Soo
Loned-
Lowaya, pr. 8, loorena, 788%,

ad lofty I praia, 957.

aly, Co lovingly, 1698, See
Med, d

| er te pl. pul ee as aa

lak, a,

guitayay #00 Lokid.
nrkar, & lurker, akulker, 8648
Lark, pr

ma Bas otiote Lustos, ph.

ty, ilo, 708
Uyoken (Lek), #. ken, 1740.

Tp fits fies abs Ct img; 0
vate, alive, 63$ pout

(On‘lywe), 1209; Lyfe :
alton a uke, a rm

Bera 599,

ia * i livi » e6,

in PL
of my life 809.
Lyf, bk

Ae
oh ithe css i, eal ana LEM,
10i0; (lst) in 97

i

Lyf lifting, raising; Ae «
hand yf ting, ike ‘what ‘con be

lifted ia the hand, 1-<, ns large oa
could jaxt be raired by hand, 567.

tH 2 i. logs, 3150.
yily,

mi ee
“ iy,

Lym, 4. Tt 6 49

Ay 1918: LU aC tial

Be «liz

Wait, init, 5069,

Lymp, % happen, 299; Lympid
ape

Lae
ne

Pee

OLOSHAMIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES

make, 1 Tay La aa
i a TASH
Tet him

st ton By ‘S74, 5153;

Mako vcs ‘ sesinradiveny

ae

shy

, 2888 5
melancholy,
, 1981,
aledy),
aren 1270,
ridin Wilof F eraeoranis

es oi as

atinann, and malscrung in
i oe n
Marsan roy speaker, Hoon

i 186, 211, &o
rae im
“i PL manner, 4218. Bee

a i mana, command.

ees
‘Mano, many, {i
Serer aire) tamanl 037;
one), 1
« 153 ; manner,

meat, 684, 11805 Msners, Ka,
:
wort, 1a, 4958, 4585; Manors,
thane:
7 ade, courteously, 2068.
Mangery, feant, 831. See P. Plow-

man,
Mankit, See Alto-maukid (ei¢).
boldly,

pre paulj. may, | Maro,

405
Mantill, mantle, 8286, 4956, 6181
a eee 1956, '

cad oy rae 8 8 tay ey 1245
Ww

Tong mg ago, may 0 Say, BI,

Rae aan, 4

flexche), man's ‘Heat, TABS,
Starie (atari, 's marble, 1530,
Marbrya ad adj. of swarble,
Marchandisa’ QMlerchaundyee), &
yrngeharing, 3419,
handy (Marchatindee), ph mer-

Siaroha ie berianp alates egies
boundary, country, 97, 246, 763,

March gata Tine of arc 5076,
Marcipy, Mceinius ae
Marcures Moreury, 4498; (Moroury),
204; Mareure '(Morcurius), gen.
Moroary's 2865,
od more, greater, 118, 130,
ee, Tea eb, Sos, a6,
Marput es pearls, 8669. So
lars arzurity
Margrite,

Mar 4. muttering, 628. It acems
ipa c ails iB, 6:28.

‘inittering of a
coed at bye ‘engaged in learn
ing a task, wi, Se. murs
ae
ling, a ¥. in Jamlewou. ~ leven
a fou cio iy aoe’
saguile & pest)
Marke
sees oan, mara 9
Mares} ig ere

bein srr
Mary, ger, marry, 9773,

jae mongro-

mack, burable 1747s
ea to ‘humble "(

himself),
Keeble pdt at

Ret oe manly), adv. oe eet |

Motil, 1. Heat 806, 927, $818;

mel Pipe Phone
‘mene =a
yma ba bese Sa eee
wile (Meyno ‘yw
Meee 20S; Meocaod eh Ties, Tiss.
Meno, al moderato state, tho
golden mean, 4591.
Menore (Meynet), adj. comp. meaner,

Sint Dez; Motil quar | Monon” ies bee
at, | Menoa (Meane)
ey ‘igs of various Kk hg nom Gtemmatrén, ment 2164,
[see note), myd, comy
Mela, much ‘li nota) 4997, | bempanen erasctwcs, ee)
+ Olykyll), 897. Menest, adj. supert. meanest, 9002,
Makin, Geer oF Mel, a. mach, (This sonse is inapproprinte;
4310, probs en error for modesto ittest 5
Mekly ade mechly, 1680 | ot for mace we chef)
‘Meknes (Mekence), 6. (Meynjey), 4, household,
9286. MISO" (esaad multitads, 1586;
Male gr teapot, tl, 147, 6120;) Monn (Morse), followers arin,
3p acaba company, 1607, OF, mare.
Bind Hale ale yer. soaks
1 pr. a, call to mind,
ee a Fomaa.
Melis 8 a mili ian 1287, &c, | Mer
‘Moll (Melle), ger. to meddle, 735 fore the rots ah |
fat ith, 1743; miswritten Mensoke, 174
lel!) intormoddie, 1989; Mellis, | Meneio, v. honour, 5342; Menskid,
ull eae maar. | pp, si01.
sponks, 4310; | Menskefull, adj. honourable, 2053.
Pusnrtt 729, feeeaaennarty 737",
He) aaa melys; | Mony, « com Mon 0),
bet ae furthor oxamplos s.v.| 2219; train, eyho.
a tyoans, 268; (lesys),
Mellie pt mailots, 41 tell, Taal 1616; :
Qeltyn), v, melt, Sona; Meltis,
Thos. rches, boners, 4824,
Mefiafbreo, a. member (of the body, his,
Timb, 4498; Membris, pl. ph 4328, Mercure, Mercury, 4585,
‘Memory, «. remembrance, 1118, ». mere, lake, 8863,
Es ee the 8 90, M » pleusantly,
Moubris for Membris), ph luabe, | Mec, adj, merry, 1179; COexy
wales Bish tae Sas5 -
een 2552; (iabres apn adj. superl, merriest, joy
Mend, pp. mended, improved, | Merio (Mets), 3 marches, front
erhediteu oe Ge Boolloory,

sae

‘Minixter
Ministere, v. govern, 1738.
Ministracion, © Service, 3554,

a a, ‘8851, 4077;

‘& myrrh, 4809, ‘leon cheb 5468.
it Bleue, 1853, 4378;

Mirthe sake merry, 6942,
Michie } wischiet, aise

Be ed bi miverie,
to thes, 3660; misery,

‘Rae ieas
ata rat at

mighty 508, 1160;
1200; could

could,
(ee) isto} igen) er
ani a

wa adj. rightful, mighty,

409
1491, 5492;

2009 iy ot » Sgt
too: Pde ye Faso

a ‘more in number, 2084,
focian, i.e, Ocean, Soe note,
Mode, s. mood, a
Mode, adj.;
Mollite, son ce ni
2002; (Modeo), 82
Modir (Mi

i we os 088M
Medion, mo smothers rs 30 Le: every

‘Mod {379 1499, a,
0)
i rae pl mother

Mody ed brave, bold, 1198, 2078,
3527; Modi 28, 1114; ‘sode,
216, 704, 5899 ; proud, 71

Moghé, 4 leap of corn, 13k B

Mold & earth, mind, 550, 1130,
310, 3L4t, aot To mold

ees dury,'831
Mole, labour, incl, 628; labour

trouble, 44
Mon, pr.’ a 1 yu must, 691, 707;
re MUA "02, 3352; will,
' Mon,'2 pr. pl. must, 4665.

Teel, munus

Mesand; rt bemoaning, sorrow.

Mand, 2 oon, 281, 8862, 4077.
Mone-troe, moon-tree, 5010,
Monet, prs aden hi

bids, 2692 5 seta
pls 1839; stoned
Pla. admonished, 3
Monyahytt), 1178; eas
Monath, month, 4533; Monethis
st month, 025, 56 + Moneths,
pL rosie (over ir Move &

aoa yr

wert fee nee Monts, mothe

eee ior M yA: |B, a a: pela 1080, 2

| GLOSSARIAL (DEX, AND INDEX OF NAMED. 41
| fcunere Guen, Midsummer eve,

BE a Myron. miro
eeeeat'~ |e eee
Dirac ce ill nile 0 99505 | Moschebe e cischance iicheeene,
a ae 400, 8846: Myschelfe (Mlncl),
quyte (Milke-whitte), adj, | _ trouble, 2782.
Miele, 1408" o> ihe | Moe ayeelt 108, 258, 587;
pplatian « lion, 26, ia : po
ger. ae Bees relies ate (Myssrs) 8 serge be
Peat oe cei cs, bral rea!

me
1690 ; Diyn, v. Elbe) Myater (inte, need, necessity,

us 2 pr. call te mind spook | 1A ater
Aynnyey pre 4. | Mystery pr. ain woodfuh 6117,
4613 ; \ya), remenn= remeatr 125,
bam, 2065 Sates | Mtr ite, 1609,
3 nee leony), mm
Prox i Tremomber, ie: Ne wa i "mi ped!
"remember, 2771 (where powers, 616

y. pl. tell, record, 1249; | Ni ao th 51 180, 182,
Pera 1094; teh ey Meg nen
Termemt ye, rah TM ‘a langer, no longer,
Mynde,a mind, 788; rememb Ma ee it
in remembrance, | nothing else, a wa}
2096 18 mention, 583; Mynd, | _ no vay, Bat mi

1884 5 aetna ope a Nabb, « projecting int or a bill,

if. tuts), 1245 Jagint| ent, G40. CC Nab Soar, neat
a ina ia set nina, 12 Granmere.
mya, beyond memory, | Nacen,natlon, 985 Neco, pl

aha Me Nad, pt, 9, hod 1462,
vss ean remoro! Felon inne aie ie
: ae ener Soaayes

me" my, 964, | Ni
1883, G00, Se raha & Sertiann
puny ae: my (rules), | Nakid, a 4043; Naked,
4756 j adj. ax 42, FS
+p ming, pone-| 475 aaah: part
we gr niab, be diminished, | Nalin no kind Nakin matall, no
sor of |, 4583, See ‘the

Meeerata ae Cee Name name, 79, 619, 9985 ‘To
Se namo, as a name, 2736; Namow

GLOSSARIAL. INDEX, AND INDEX OP NAMES,

318, 449; Ni to
Mes Ub daa

‘Neuen, « evens neuen (An euen),

tee Ree oe tie 663 5
SS, 1s el 060,

=
fe 413.
Neuer-the-les (Nenor-po-lese), adv,
nevertheless, 1105,
Beet re eses none ths are 825
New odj new, 1340, 1460; On nawe
titne, newly, 2011,
pt 4, created, lit. made new,
eewiy adv, nner soon, 4740.

619,
“its on On ne mraissasteieon

Node 73 ep a
ees sh a ie

ne

jf. would

iburs), gen. s. neigh
on

i
tiie sts ee 396 |
1 pre rere dea,
see 4th pr
Pr pe Sage a “Ni
Rach P: Sapproach, dr

‘ezeeen

drawn alg

saver
sath Ta

‘nim, nine,
ns tag ih) name 1, 7

Nine Re tite
= denied, refsed, 1460,

to deny.

x Oe i), 4 night, 1084, 1345,
hi

et ee higtoe {OF yeni), by

hee ee No more,

No, for Ne, nor, 8570.
Nobi bleness, ¢
Ney nobles, fenoo BIO nubs

array, 4881,
Noble, adj. good, 3192
Jabs nce ele) Sed; Nobles

‘nol
wii the ‘coin ‘called, 8678 ;
ar, a he ;
ebly, ade
Soke i tocis corey, 606, 8144,

Noll; pt a adj, might not, should
ae ive oo woke to

Noll (Nole), noddle, hoad, 807, A.S.
ae 4. number, 60; ——s

fed 4 poo * TO; “None-
me,
sega nO, 68 ; Non, not one,

2179,
Sonn), « nun,
Nor, nor, 46, 316.

Norah, Be nourished (after lat,

work, 824, 4605

world), eid oc ‘cacurrence, cour

OTST Obieh for Obes, be rl Of. often, 10,146, 607; Ofte,
Oberche (Obey), x ay aut: Otte arog UB for Ou)

Pre) j Obee- | Olaathere, Lat, Megthor, 5493,
5 ee | ae ma
Shope etn 2,1 30 a Olifas, 5136,
nt ce) 2. Ba; altaunti, 9621, Oly:

Obrede bred), in breadth, of

8593;
“eat!
225, 810,
Lod

:
aes
Perel

pence, 1041.
the value of ® pen,
to ataff onrselven,
rr aeeaeg lungs to peg | Pe
‘to eat heartily ; prov.

pearl, 4036; Worth a
to value of a A, A901 5
Perle, $677 5 (Pereloshy pe 1663.
Bee | (Pers), & pa Lo, rush of water,
por for stroam,
1b. to

menio, 2581. Bin
Fei Pse) F Featls, 1642. See

a8 ston
‘in Glow to PS
ind sve Pirre.
i | Pers, Persia, S240, 8509, 8616,
Boo] G1

Pers, « pl. peers, nobles, 9064, 9781,
ana

|

brought, put 3441 ;
ata
Phaze, plac, 104, 894, 955, 905,
| ; plaid, no
Sao than pape, ray py,
Planet (Planott) a Bay ted
Ping ge fe piged, 4186. Bes

Pano, Mat, 4188. Cotgrave
* planter, flat, as an

Planke, a. plank, 8740. =
Plant, 2. tanta’, et, 3146, 5656 ;

armour =
armour, 2214; Plotix

Ste

Platos, Platia, 2297,

“adj. level, flat, 4138, 4975,

Head; (Pamela, ne

‘GLOSSARIAL INDEX, AND USDEX OF NAMES

421

ree Playn, plain, whole,
In, 2169, 9655; Playnes,

Patt aio, ie
iy 1054. H606: Playalyy

4 ) 1791.
PI “se toma 2912

a
he Bublia ‘MS. te oeincinns
picconpletaed 1008 Parade

plaine;” Cotgrave,

Pat ph complaints, 1701, P.

Vlodo (Ploto dobate, 2861
ge ent |

Ploeg, 1 pledge, 1783, S61

Plente, 4 wonky, 1853, 1888, 2167,

(Planys), pr. #, laments, 729%. Seo
Pleynys

lease; ‘The werd
with to plese, to lease the workd
with, 4598 ;' (Please), 1180; w
2275; Pleais, pr. «. pleases, 6886;

, & aubj, may ‘plone,
feed, pp

‘fighting-men, lit. plead-
1, “Plait, sate, contro

versie ;" Cotgraye.
Puetyeg pret. pt, ploading, p. 281,
Ploynes, pr. ¢, Jamenta for, 4062;
seta
jamnents, $99; Ple: jon;
sine, 1147 5 iia
5 Ploynys:
Jamonts, 1286; Ployn, pr.
taroont” 4870; Tignes)
Ployned, pt. 2 lumonted,
Playnys, pr. & laments, 1286, S06
on:

a)

to
ily, bond, bow 5"
lig, = Her 1783. Sow Pig

I

x

i
im
mH)

4
¥

:
Z

;
a
He

ne

Hii
7

TL

‘J

nh Em iit
pests; 140%,
(Prolates),
pe
(Ch Bernce in the
Doblin MB), Le, men. ‘Thesense
ia obvious,

Pros, 4 throng, press
Bross throng. 8 tat

Prost eat ci i

eae ras 5138 ;

aes ei |e

Pairs a ft
NM) adj. present, O82,

wwacy, silence ; Tn
ay iy ony mle Aa
as et rivate
mark of feendsbip, special kid

Py , confidential, 3888

Een
sat

private, anal, 820%,

25 Prentig

(Prowsy),

inscribed, marked, lit,
Te; ito Pam,

Fel (inna, ama 191
ae “00 Palos en Ga

pee isc 08 Foo

Plate eae impeint e

Paes 50005 Pree
pons 4242; Privo, prize,

QLOSSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES.

- (Purpasee), # intention, | Quapy

ce top ppl 1682;

4. parle colour, $985;

Parvaid, pp. ese equipped,

175; Puruayd, a
pee

), sot (them~
valves), 148 j Put (Putt), pp.

mae full, filled (Put read

: pillare, 6064,

Peete

Pyndis, pr. AA pens up,

Pyne, eer pain, 2723, 8506 ;

Pyne, t ee ares a
would

425
Pyto, «and fate, 729%.
tr. wh, 6905
we, iowa
ie, io (Wao 80), 1827, 1718,

17805 Aw gu 28 one who, 4659 5
onl a who should say,
tithe wool

| Qos 1 unt he aus.
xy,

nd’ (Wappyd), pt. pl. atrack
Sere Ce oe iaps) to hits
Grom
uur, ‘adv, where, 104, 363, 878

iar), whether, 2370
avec ah nisl ce ), 4380, 54825

acconiater ates? whereupon,
upon what, 288, 269,
Quare-purys (Whnt-porow), whereby,

Quare-with, where-with, 5434,
Saas rarely told po abe er

iGeactec ofr Hhoralo, to Fewhk
i aie

Qaas (Whoys), hey), om, whose, 11925

oly whore, unde
vrhces rele, 4108.”
Qua-snm-ouiro(Who-somouer),pron,
eee tet, 261,359,206,
‘pron. whnt, 171,
ke. why, wherefore, ‘519, 3492,
‘628 ;' Quat,

3046; Mell quat, much of va
8 e

Mei? =
Quat euire (What ener), whatoeor

cee a of, of what
ont quaint, curious, 128,

a

a le

chine

ks, | Rowe

1538,
) prs him-
Ota SEC EC
stretch.

Radly,

{Raddeat), adj. aup. mont afenid
2510. Of Swed. ritdd, Don. raed)
afraid. S00 Redd,

Hudiour, +. violence, 2329, OF,
rader (Boquefort), later roideur,

violence.

Rado, pt. +, rode, 8704,

Badly, ade readily, quickly, soon,

480, 1854, 1 , 1960,
1, 2978, 8449, 4846, 4961, 6860,

Rad pte was anzsy, 6985 Ragid,

‘P- ani, 460, oA
jagged, raged, 5198.
‘pp. reached, 709%,

ror
is

mie ie Se ta
a tia

teehee
Rapin (Rapez), ph ro ;
en

1508, ak 8817, 6065; (Bove),
)) race, hurry, 1513, A.8,

, #, tumult, 943,
vp); pp. Faised op, levied,

( ii 1352,
rey: Ait metas
(Rapost) (MS, rapeest), most quickly,

fa

ing, 4631.

; | Ratons, pl. rats, 1762,

Raneste (RRenes!), pp. decked, attired,

pia som
with ie), * ickly, soon,
2A Bee teacher,

Rauyat, pp. ravished, tora. away,

Ravyn, raven ; myn, night
raven, Le. (281.

row, . araw
1600; Gh

Ri
a meecaaries

ind + king, — “4 ie
4ymno, ger. spread over,
he Te ana

Raymed (Raymet), pp. 1940, 2378;

GUOSAARIAL INDEX, AXD INDEX OF NAMES,
886;
h Phe

relates, Mont nd, 1 ae <
related, 4124; Rekind,
nounced, uttered, ‘abt
Reknatbis, chains, 6642, eee
1. rehendr.
this,
a
= » & smokes, rocks, 666,
fatal adv. hantily,
quickly, 00m,
af Q

aig ger. to, Cie BA; Chaka),
ony ‘ir Oia Bute
aoe control, take heed to, 21.

a

rere vat mp, 20)

4

Tabs Rdnowia, rok

ile.
, the some as Renke, man,

ta

7, 992,

Re, Bt, 2168s. ont
rarsiors, 21, 127 ; 5
2978. (Iteaken) 68 Seen
ee rank, 1850,
nt, tribute; To rent, in

reprore, binmo,
robaked,

Sen i Wiaesaty oir PP,

ma requosted, demanded

| Roe (Reys), « race, harry, 2979,

Resayfo ioe " ng
rn ‘ived,
Tay fre ), Fe, pl 1005,

od, pt. pl, received,

GLOSSANIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES,

ordeal (Ridyn), pr. pl. rido,

tes fe cat upright,
Bimo (Remo), «, rien, 1860.

“oy Leyton {re
i _[ategerigting
Riso 2 pre M4;
ies aes
# pl. of

cate, ty Fhe tend of
‘tho ont; Cheah, *A plume, or
bell, or bunch of oate, and such
‘other eorn a4 dood not grow in an

of all:
Sr pecdepernage nee.

nie’ cyt) (Ryfa), adj ah shaman ta fall of

feel

abundance, 1740,

Beets,
1 faad (Byghiwyssnes),

Robies (Rabies), pl. rubles, 1663.

Robry, bbery, 4563,
Roches rock S156 ; Rochis, 4864;

bh iri buy, ete.
ne atiees (esdo4e0), Dab (he (ito.

Fees ow (BS

431
(ke), rock, 4849; Rokkia, yh
See iia rolling, gallop-
R final Ror '
aia ete "200
Roms, Rome, 2328, :

“ae om eo cron oF, Ch,

in re feamrles te

Resin tmp pl. roam, stretch out,
Soe roam in my Etym,

one imp. pl. rove, roam (after),

mop, ar awiftly, A178, ec nae kre
to fall, full 32'rain,
Rosan, vm a, 2318, 8449, 3463.

Rotillyn 2. disturbanee, 943, Cf.
, rattle, which te often provinel
nai pronounced rotd
ae, pt. 4. rived, fiver 1216,
fore whisper, secrot, 244,

Rounay, charger, 817, See Ronsors.
Route, ' 4. company 2378;
“rong 19195 (lowe), roat,

2 wa
we), y ,
Re 14920 ; place, 330,
Rowse ‘airy, dies i703,

eer Ricnysdy totn ton

we 49 4. woi0e, 488, Tool, ramet,

Bogho, aj, rough, 4736, 4877,
et (at rougher,
hr,

GLOSSARIAL TXDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES.

), # woul, 1640,
maa |
Hg Shan? ait

fate tO cat

5 Salutes, retin, 27
wie

Bene a ects ee ‘Le. together

( hore nsed ia a mare ex-

rok

fecal

{Ganimya) pp, ansembiod, znty
fired fu 00 flere
«sample, example, proof

ies ae, 1264, 1288,
Sieey i alas

pl. mossages,

Sande, 1 pr. «. vend, 3168.

Rohen, c meisengor, 4254;
+ Sane

==
pl’ mosiongers,, 2899,
ALEXANDER,

5 | Sat, pt. a, wa

433

S100 (andoeran 1830; Lae

ambassnd Ti
Sand, rang Si

eels sss 2 oe ph ar

|. Perhapa an error
} Or minwritton:

sap aris con ph watraps,

sor ee yd L)

Be se 8336,

iy paris ‘Satrapars) atin

2768; Satrapuiree ae
pairs (Gutrapurs), 1997,

Sail, np ntl 4439,
Saungyum oh savages, S014,

nd, aaving, excapt 4087; Bau-

Sova bot except, 37

Saudid (Sawdett), pp. wtuffed, act,
1535, F. souder, to solder, lit, to
make firm; Lat. solidare,

Sapdlonry angnou), soldiers,
ne a oneneae Foal

‘Sowiourd), 7

sale Salo), «eave, heal” 2668,

4087 ; Sauod, pl, «, saved, 6586,

0, excopt, 3842.
aafely, 3771. See

(Sa tuetoun), 3 poldirs, 2172, See

Sandionrs,

Saul woul, 70 2 dse 30s data:

Sun Je), 1786, 2093; Sauls, pe

Sauour, smell, sense of spell,
4634,

oP

GLOSSAIITAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF Nass,

cored pr littering, | bright, brighteued,4816, Cf. cel.
Seorce, et eee ee
dingrace, S871 ; “shivers, shakes
si: semua: See ie as
choke, pf,» shook, 50
per ade ee (rare
schon 4
ecnag Rich «sta, Sn pe err fr
a 202. Shmering looming, 10 Seo
ear tater ot xb Schomerand,
‘Teter Schine ; but | Sehondisned (Ghondoret), pp. alain,
2088, as if from a verb
rnd. Shonen. pt.| Schondoren, or laren, fro
leet Weare he
eis on to qulver, shiver, in Bae epee diazrace, 469. Put

rs aren Anko and Troy-
book,

Bale 5 a, 4
Toel. Mire a cloud Hitivel
Fahad a= ky, from MS. Col.

Bchewe, ver show, 18; howe),

phew, 100; Sahowyd,
Schowid (showed
Sehewers: ¢. miro

ie Ben), nh splinter, frag

es
Schild (Sbatd ael 790; (Shale),
1402; aie ar ne ‘sis

Schilde, pr, « imper, shield, dofend,
Sohilli (Shilly), ade. shrilly, Youll
929, iW dit Tina Cal

(Schelyng), ph shillings,
Seo

SIT.
Schind, ale disgrace, 6335,

Shine, a shi 113: (Bobi
ty Lads Bains (Srv,

ay ae 83,6018; sheer,
Sehiskiod, pl ph. cloared,, rendered

for eon soo schand in Strats

Solionti; - Schoutis, Schount.
Schort, 630,
Schote (i hot), a. hi
‘shot from engines,
aS (Shote), ger.
Schotes

eee,

Schout

Schoutis (Shotoa),
Schoutid, pf,
oured, 580 (but here wo ‘sbould
rathor roa hontid, i.0, removed,
shrank, lit. shunted). See the note,

“to

Schl

4. mischievous creature,

jafchnewin phe illedisposed
yr. ph while, 8800;
ino, & shrine, 6692, feo
Preslar vudsusk foe sa
covering, 4301, AS, ecrdd.

Schryne, shrine, 4678," Seo
Schudos joderyng), 6. ibs
“ ate Th dhudcersg,

ora

GLOSSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMEA

437

® oan, A187, 202, | Sel, (ale), #. mal, 1845, 198,
dibs Se er le ie * 5, ly
ieee 2991;

80. (787, 2049;
AE bette |
‘of thew
pee em 1070.
Sep a save, 2901. than pet Se
Denieged, Ly cont).
i pr. 4. tite, 980, Selero, 4. ell, agartinent,

Seining, & seizing, conquest, 4896, | But car

Scke, seek, 004 5682; find, 1264 ; mana one
Bic attack, 2030," Soke’ (Seah) | Sole df sane 396, 494
took to 4 4 “ii thas (elf) 3b 5 (Se
fois; se cal | Solforaelfs jour-elf, yours
hey ole eae pep
Sekia es aoaled, 6100; (Selett),
reekeet, | Sell if, 2524,

acai aon

j strange, marvel
2848 AS 5 cao eat Mish), 1732}

Sekeman, « sick man, 5605. strange, Le. ‘15; vnet,

Bekire, adi certain’ 6970; trae, | 2089 Balle ate wttange, wonder™
rary 8 5 Gein trumty, 26467 | _ ful, grest, died vnet, 09,

B91; (Boker), | Selly, adv. ener) extremely,

1, sterlinns, 1042;
eye aoe 763; trusty,

hie (Sckerly), adv, assuredly,

Sekirly, adv. for a certaint;
2eitt wz 210 (faker, coe

+ sickness, 2808 ; Sokonos,

Selouth, adj. atra B69R
ee 204 OA dea
Seloutho, & rome marvel 3663,
‘5533; atl (Seleoutl phe
wonders, 2112 wits
a, umderflly, 9076;

leouthly),
oats en rh i

Seldoum, adv. woldom, 4220,

Belly, & parry 2661; Sellis, pl.

wonders,
Gelue), adj. very, 1998, TA1®,
+ eta pede 1252.

pearance, dems
$ sonbataunes, 4008.

ate meoting, 7973
1678.
assemble,

senile: (kevemble)?”
Sermbi

1921 ;

led, 617: Semblid”
blyd), pp. assembled, 1244,

GLOSAKIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES.

|, 5637 ;
ae pl. seized, ae
410s on

0)
in pouncenion,
A at. at fn ah)

pecans Ya peocrion (ot), 4210;
pit (sis) ts

motel
eesion, delivered B18;

ossession, 8161 sa me
vy i
P 3558; Seid "(Seaye),

wizod, taken pounossion of,

bay een r. #, consent, 2786 ;
na ad Tasom, 646, 4377;

stops, 45835 Sexid. (Seenyd), pe
ph pceuss, 2045 ; Sonos, imp. pl.

Paoag! season, 881; (Sensun),
t Re Sem potent re

2. brea, 2682.

Senne
gee rn 5 seiztite, 3490,

. seta, dass
1659 Seti (Sotten), pitt,
Seti fo be-

179, 443, 22, 4125

rendered, 3011;

oppored to, 1316 ; Settie (Setter),
imp, pl, 2p, not, 2142,
Soto, «. aout, 288, 482, 979, 2962,
3902; throne (Lat. sclium}, 2876;
teat, Inbitation, pas
‘And aoe Sette,
Set, af. muta, tt, 249

Foe Eek “ee S

sittan, to sit, MLE. witten, to
re Soo te in Beratmann,
ston (Settyn),

Seteqwile (Stewie)

Boe Bete, ail.

adv. vjyaferwands, 282, 42,
see bt, 3008,

Sothon (Syne), con), since, 2202,

Sotnes, a, sot timo,

Bett, +. setting, 2045,

Botte,s. cE iso, 4969. (Error

ite.) Sete,

num, seven 5
= the seven dendly sins, ‘8;
1961. See Beuyn.
euynt), adj. seventh, 2942,

‘Sonenten), poi pi

1 28, 1677,
Seuynt (Seuent), adj. seventh, 21875

te),
Seuynte, num, baventy, BL

‘GLOBBARIAL IXDEX, AND INDEX OF Nastes.

prcicea (obese or Sicisterus),

Be! Sirection 1221, 1530,
Bean 378 is
ri Of pares ire
ae ae
Sidlings, edv. fidelong, 2087,
niger, pl. eighs, 6062.
gud
wo
Sike, eof. nach,
ae
siten , lament, 23
P&T,
Sn faba: (Syles), goes, 2922
comes, 1087; Si
101. See}
Sith ate 4016; 8; Gy 2301
silk 4016; oe
B80; Siiken (ytkyn) 1620.

canopy, 4915, Seo Sy-

Srupaiiniaent, Pave; ent. oo

Siluer, silver, 276, 1572, 1688, 1839;
ome ae al of sir

nd ze

os, bur, si Ye AS.
sipagne (Pryophagoyne), piace
race orem, 1,5290; Sipire,
ti, Bee iy ey
ae asp a “900; Sirapis,

161.
Bite, «, sire, waster, lon, 903, 311,

Hate si, 868, 617 ; fathor, 1786;
(Byre), father, lord, sire,’ 1126,

441

, iti See, amt
rae a 1186}

sich ary) mes land, Syria,

Syria, 113)
seta ‘ph, Syrians, 1696 ;

si ez), hn, 3076.
Sp Gee) 7 Mista, 2061, 2870
lene, look, tate, ‘inl oo 07,
Shen 6425, Skapid
pit xpd, 2
Skarlet, adj, scat

Sars oa care, thor 6010, (Eor

«| Skathelea 4a theles), adj, un-

he l, 29%
Skatholy, ‘ade, with diffioulty, with

Goth. akathula, harmfal.
Skantand, pres, pt. pusbing, di
violently, Halliwall

reant, tO push violently; cel.

Ski
4622,
j skilful, 645,

aes
situ

if
fi
i
gS

oe
if

=
es
3

Fe

i

rane,
Bibi te cover fale ce:
See aot ta tl |

‘grass for winter-pasture.

eat )s tte stumbles,

Baare adj severe S688, Soo Gloss. | Sole

, ade. soberly, 4643;

eroatly, £340; pile 2356,

obit, aabrony, 4040 =
ure (Rocour), 4 succoar,
1468, 2252."

1H Socuy cours) pr..snceour ids

Sodanly, od, suddenly, 1052, 8991 ;
ato'ly, 2862; (Sedealy}

‘Solnw (Solace), #olnce, cor

pts, sclacod, comforted,
oho is ae ate
ty
Genes rat, Bl Seo
Rolp, v. pollute, 4202, “Sulpen,
in.

rs Sm 80 (Somer),

Somere-hall, ae 6264;

GLOSSANIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES,

Biseaee « ‘hones Sinn,

i
),768 ; Soumme:
Bee

; "EA; host, 1252;
787;

arploul Set [ell
ae ue
Ba e

doubtful word,

tn

rf gal wa griovo; in

2

SI

00 number,

ec ig)

Sowines, ph

a

4 te 64.
olor to my

ae EATS

ton),

rau nt 18 "Soyt, PP. pees
Space, «. space of time, 630, 971.

“is ios aca Seas

446

7: cea, iy, Hath ‘Bo
ott soothed hers
Miran quieted, So Tol apr,

Dan. apog, gentle,
Spakly, ade, swiftly, 7
wai i toca ak tai cee
jpare, v. spare,
spared, refrained,
res a Prensa
Boo. D Dek
ats ark, 2975.
lea, ppt jie
1 ped

scanty.
deco | Sparth, « se, Uattle-ux, 1408
Sparrethi

in (Sparthyn), pl. 245)
Tool. sparta.
a crud 234, 237, 739, 897;

sees Spekes), pr. 4. 8, B34.
eget

gat gsr at
om mi

630,
(of men), host, BI ces

088,
Bpeke, « speech, 9818,
Bpall t. word, quetion, diaconrne,

to spell, 630; Spellix,
| Pak, tells, 46015 ‘eeu
pr. ph say proverbially, 4
Byelonk, 2 cave, deo, cavern, 6302,
"S00 Glows, te P, Plowman,
troy, consume,

‘Spends prt apands

in), 4162, Seo
n Glos. ee
aa

GLOSSANIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF Names

eclie Gabe
a eed stamping,

‘ofan hour, short-time,
1018; Stand
oe

die = ple tard, 2168 5

Standen, he ce and
‘imp. », 2p. stand, be, 51)

a wwtone, 192, 263, '1127, 1196;

Ca

MOR,

cam, aah AG, 1630

a gers, 1074, 1662.

Stanecast, « stonecust, stone's throw,

3614.
Staned, adj, built with stones, 4962.
Biank, ® pool; Vp pe stank, upon
, beside the pool, 991

tare), 171
Statute, 4. statue, 6641, Lat. statua,

Stauet pl, rounds stapa of « ladder,

Sy tank, reservoir,

rt. climbing,

ibd, fre, zs =
pease feo 9p sod deen

Dawn oralfiwoll And sen

7

Stadd, 1. plaes, 2977. From atade

sunt, 195, 466, of
piste Pt te ci pe

Eee oe
aerated Se oe

fa fee

Stee (Stoch), ladder, "i ites,

T'p. shut, clove, 2139,
taken in Stratmann.

i | Stela, & atoel, 788, 9874; armour,

Stole bowe,« sicrup, 73,

: see edi. osl-ongreven,

atecled, hardaned ; Wel

ett rele aoe 889) as 2
‘& given stealth

eles), gues auiedy, 258
Stem, », alm, attempt, 245

‘summon, AS.
ny the voice,
‘and the Grene Knight, te
Sonskore, pondered iol stopped
von in e Goeanry ie, ie

wi dt Lol: sata ie 80 Toe

a fae Porta To sep =in
ay direction ma he

houllong. Soe
seo appl, pr. steps, 481
Fk 5

inte (Suppyi for which MS.

row Spettyn), pr. pl. step,
climb, 49% dae ire:
Store (Stirre), x, stir, 2809 ; ee
pr. & stirs, moves,

GLOSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES, 419

Stouts ade. proudly, 14083 dseply,

Seams 2165.
#. atrode ;
Sarr nae

suri ah eae mi
aeeneaits erica “the Da ‘ ‘oth

| fee pli Hit, atmos,

Ree losin, Tae
« distu:
ee | Scrte Hnn
blast of a uth peep ated

"4 sol “by. hunters, Mallwol

fs07, 1804, St bp Strakii fnkesh itrakes, bh

petoitiaes | tak oe ee eee
ire ‘Strama (Strame), Hane, 2334.

Strand, &. shore,
banks,

Bioarbed (Stoorbltt), pp. dietrbed,
q a tt
rin 284 Seah Si
& ngitation, 6046; conflict, stretched,
Lot oe ets heel
Stoure shock of buttle, | St re i Fc
1015; Bioure, troop, lost butte: ath Toug, Jeng i, a
Hiow, army, 785, 9017, 3601, 8977; ode, atraight,
Stour, it ‘ken, pp. Satie BOTT; net,
OR. Brest and, pres part. speaking
i is 1634,
| cea tee
re 8,
1953; Siete, pt gues
irene 4 ehreeee 1 1963, fone,

t inte src Be er

4 pole, post, BASE sre tec, 080;
i 195, 284; ‘Stremys,'15,
= 96,2085 | lemed, pe ph lect 6286

H
ALREXABDER, 20

‘OLOSSAIIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMms,

Sas Suftird

{suttord),

the
Saas, tome, 2, 0,8, 11, 12 Rey: da
gil 180. dem

Mid Sunune (Sonne,
aot (Somqwatt), arias:

Bam-quile, adv, formerly, 3186;
Sony Ranewiiih, some.

Sum ces Yo mum (som) time, at
‘one time, 2361,

ee ,
; rey separately,

sty So
0 8 ie

451

on, ee eitaliwel
ay) he he lp Sup, drink,
set gpm
Supe coe 9 varprlee, ake
= toe 198

Miley (ie ously), 6848
v3,

ured), pp. promiaad, 2633,
sr ake surely, 475, 1883;

Sarmonne Srmonsty ah “
overcame,

Surplos, pl. ewer 1860.
Sunquidry, », pride, serogane, pe
‘sumaptlon, 4298: Surquit
cat iin) 38; ag

aan "Byria, bey j, ay 2700;

Bustenance ror for Bub
tenance (error for Substance, as
tin the Dublin ee 3391.
Suatenc, v. otntni §

pr: sustains, $884; Bustaynee,

pr. pl sustain, 1749,
Sutinngon, ss suttonnnen, 4950,
Sanye, Suna, 2847, 2866, 8078 ; Si

syn gold} (aay cng

Sate, 2. suit, aot, ame kind, 2929,
Sut Sotho); With a suth, truly,

Suthely (Bethy), aie. eit, 1902.

Swa, a0. 80,

Swalow, Salicet reset, 4507.
Swranes pl swans, 4276,

is (Swappys), pr. a, attikeny

wate ee + Cuappes), 1882;
(Swappyn)

Suare, h anewer, O07; Swaris,

GLOSSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES,

ae nes eae, et, Se
aay
Saar
error ae Bye Nylus, the Nilo,
Seay

Smet sercst

Para seoing that, 1874;

synagogue, tem|
Rgeee nen),

ae oe

‘The trun

pare sina, 4:

‘ oyprets (rood), 3684. Bee

or eee ae a ee
fais thn i, 1219; sir, 214;

1 Syris, pl. chicfs,
lords, 4432." SieBire

89. See Surre,
ak aad, oe op

f, 182; Shae

Secs es ass
flan peyton, 3058, See Sithe,

453
Grd Bt inca Of pte (OFF

ee it in as i ore
Bliss fe Se *
ny pre peng 8 Seo

Tan; po tan — ‘that one, th
mete
Tan, #06, 3065, (the Dublin a8,

taborancla a eg 3688 (noe the
5593, 5645,

note);
se; | ab ii 105 tablet 324;
Tablin

tablets, oa Raatrvar te tablets,
1668.

Taburs Paar; , pl bes 1885.
Taochis, pr. s. me sols, 5085;
Taches, pre ph pierce, 2622;
Tuchid, pp, attacl fasicned,
id, seep fixed, eed
nahin

ti 082. Cf. Prov.
it blow ; to attack,
sat and soo

‘B19; Tace!

Rete See 1208; pl
Taite, 4 joy, exultation, 3 play,
sae Soy, B97 Loch, tay

nak go dake, 1197, 2149
860, 1812;

38410; (Loken) $13

fase) oR

ie vor, 2749 ; dolivers,
WED) Pr ‘pr. pl. tnke
ight 760; en),

n. Look, recuived, 2091 5

5 a token, by pees "indication,
31095 ighakens 28,
site Add

a] Sn raemes em 2123;

GLOSSANIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES, 455

‘Text, 0 epee io au,
225, 916, 1692; (Text), T41*
1044; ‘Toxtes (Texte), pl the

jeaning, 4289 ; mage ig ow, won 2176
"ali 4 4 approached, £25, 649,

teat t 18 i i, a thes
Bi iy Bt
rs as Bie BAA they,
roi
[es they 8, 105,149, do;

ii), thou,
pul, error for rae fn the Dublin

MS), their, 2974; 40 aleo in 6468,
Paitn, pron. them, 938, 1117 them=
solos, 816, 982; dat. to thom,
cath ie tat. 22; fale, 1180; (aloe)

i Tend ppt
Paim-solfo, prow. themealves, 8489 ;
drops, 49745 |” (paim-noluen), 1276 5 (huim-solfo),
3. by thernselvos, 608.
. | (Pain, there, 1146,
Pair, post. prom, thls, 8, 7, 14,38,
ey ‘a 98, 8201,
ron. thom, it, St, 306,
, &o.; (paim), dat, for
8 aes

aelfe, themselves, 660,
adv. then, 43, 76, 120, 352,

ide [ea ata ae
{; (lermyd), Par, prom. ths, 10,1 164, 296,
Par, adv. there, 140,287,8e.; whoro,
Bit, 87025 (pst) where 1866,

Por as, there where, 7: <
Barcagaynys. (Per-agnyas), shere

Pare, ad, there, 801, 221, 229, 246,

~ oT ial head-frame of a | Tharo, cS et
needfil for thee, thon needost,
Peres Lag cin p Pa ore Tu
are, thelr, ar.
Pare as (Thar as), ‘wherius, 2480.
CM +), 2198; (Tithiest) Pare-fore (paifore), ade, for ay
See Tit that account, 876,

(barfore), om

wi u

:

B

oy3

aff

3860.
~ ph tar; Ternen of,
at as

i

OLOSSARIAL INDEX, AXD IXDEX OF NAMES,

i

Hn

ae ot

Bs

sp
wi

those, 797,
‘ati fn we,

:
"

2514; 60,
Gute ae boo fread
@ ue
ie ati eb pe
(Poon) 1056; (Poe), 19645
Bebe eos tip i
iwritfen Of), 728, 262
S350 , $168
een
Tia) &. 207; Ti
tania tarry, 3888
miffered, 3876 ; Thi
fered, endured, 6 dot
wotfered, 2529. ian
‘hooey Tudor, 654." Head thon-

‘ére-thrastia, i.e. thunder-claps.
(poo, town, asta ®

sy ae vages, 1808,
jorpus), pl villages,
oi anal

Bot, pron. thou, $7, 28, 100,107, &e.
Mound 1042, 27,

j rt 5 (Thowus
248, 2163; Thousundis,

eas

3

4
=
ma

ii
Pts

fe tiny 40, 4

(Phonght), 4 thought, 1461;

2s1e=

+ pfs, | Th

487

Zs tree
‘hy dj eld, 2918, B8BE never
; (Dra), strong, L631;
see
strong S07. rae ai ig (ot

* 4a r
Pee it

Tool, prd, «

‘Thrat, pt, pl, threatened, 629.
Drathly, adv, (error for praly),
‘MS, D, Aas thraly.

time, L470; Thre dais out »
(ina thaw), flly threo daye ato
fim, 2015," AS. prdg, pi
Thraw, ger. to throw, hurl, 2018 ;
‘Thrawyn, ar, to throw, fo wis

| Coorpees),

2,
‘Thro, num. three, 277, 436, 1476,
2016, 2090, 2259,

vhred}, adj, third, L486,
‘urepia, pr. s. asnerts, 4425; oon-
tends, 3125; Theepid, pt. pl
strove, 8642; ‘Threp, rw
Throne, pt ly dispite, 204,
rivepil heped
Th) tt), pp. con;
tnt, Caaschathed, Li7b Oe
blen, prudlen, so prees ; ave

elves, to Allit, Pooma,
Tieachisy yr. o thrashcs, beats
i

(Thratt), 2 threatened,

mG tise) eke exhorted,
G31 5 pp. threatened, oppremed,

‘Throte, 4 threat, 2742,

eto ty, G42) (Throti),
121C; Mhretty, 608, S¥48
posit to the sumbor of thirty,

‘Throuen, pp, as adj. woll-thriven,

\

GLOSFARTAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES,

H pnsnet itched A140; =

aca ih 3 :

He plsacet, 64a.

ae rivets ied, aad ie
nts 1 2011; j stv)

lost, 2683;
Ns =i

skilled.
TAN, mame, osribod with

sit 4. ttle of a letter, hence, letter,
8666, 4239;

525, aa tas Tse:
ys, a5 Tittly’ (Pyto
Title, pute Lan quickly, sooner,

‘Tit 2g Sella Aaa
ii (
Bip on sealed to, elas
Be, tyle, to anateh,
L; Janie
eine 4 wont, 1895, 2174;
eft. ‘wont, 11623 (To:

Ch. Jeol. ‘tr, re rai

tee
a0)

v0, 2609,
‘Burst in two, 040. AS.

Torbrisaid bud
brabed, 186 ee

brountes), pre & destroys, 1214.
ete oa Goctesneteapt

| Beas (Claters), prs a. shivers,
in pieces (with ao noise),

Torelefe, pt. pl, cleft aaunder, were
rent asunder, 565.

To-oombiry (bors), pr: a discom-
it,

Tos dren, pp. drawn fully out,

‘To-brest, v.

liro, ade, to,

ar, 6 875
dr 18735 14.

rook,
(ta dyn) al 906.
ale A Pes implement, 8873
Toles, pl.

Tolle, Pr nee Te of, pal ft
(their horses), tollen in
ratinann.

a. | ak 4: sone oe pearlet i

Pips I.
Rent 5, tomb,

Tonbl pre ple Lesite, mh
To-tnorne, to-morrow, 1408,
Toraclen, pl. tunicles’ 1587,
Toname, # nickname, 2288,

d Sia ais

cas 1), 4 labour, trouble,

travniled, was in
ast Trauailid, pp. dic-

Rem woe
Boyne, & Ereachery, decet, snare,
2582;
2 pr. ast sata
i, pe 2.
Ce ‘Tros, wood, 4465;
‘trees, 70, 4994, 5
na % Uibute, 8719, Bee

echo rahe, 28,

OSE j Trech-

Trschoure erst traitor, 1768,

‘rade trosd, 1515; Treaia
prt. treads (an), 1848.

GLOGSARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES.

Thzeuon, ey thriven,
‘Tried,
ter

SySehalle

ean 18, 107 2077;
value, 6872; ‘Presore

461
great wonder, marvel,

‘Trest, sale ee og trust, Pers bry

Tretis, pr. a troats with, entreats,
), ee Diatory,

‘Trouthe, a. trath, 515, 729,
Trow, adj. truo, 27% $174; ‘Trowe

nod, pt. 4 pi 694, Seo
ines, Trenes,
Tribochetoa (Crebgotes, for Trol-
tox, aa in wx ines for
Castings atone, 1296, rebtie
chet og eae
‘Tribute, tri , 896, 1044,

(ig aires treachery, 4192,

ied, pp. well-tried, 3022: xelect,
2192,

‘picked,

Nome choicest, 4970 ;

aos
‘vib a a rantie 5508 ;

|, ree, port, trembe
ns rat "ste Trym “a
+. oem proceeds, 5171,
THING, Bat, "Dantas te steps
trin, a step.
Teeth frespassod, 2985,
Tri pe ten, plata of in

adv, trustfully, confidently,

approved, choice 1060,
732, 6101, B60, 564;

‘oo Thra,

‘Trod-gate ato), track,
eaten po, 2 tea ,
Tre Troy, 2128, eee ee
in Mog,
‘in the" Dublin. MB, q
ane Peat > ;
trumpets,

Grmpes
‘Groner 161, 977, 1490, 1724,
thrones

Ps of the nine ondese of abgels),

OLOS8ARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES,

gare upon, eli

c Ss ae

peat bea bead, 1079; (Tell), 8154,
® year,

Retin

wi
rate

mppeoed, $78
‘Tigris, 2697, 2785. Soe
reat of the

aie of weed)

(Tembre)

Hehe fi oe

nee 83, 204, 214,
BB & &e.5 os en 78; Tynes
Be tyme,

2890; 2 B88;

Sage is Sovuah then,

rate aso
i ted ny to, whut to,

pr. pk tinkle 1, o.reeound,
Ath (Tynte), pp. lost, 908, See
i Hs de te erat
icin: 141, al 1208, 1289,

arte, 4. attires, pur ‘Tyrid,
Tyte ih ade gaily se tyte sas

463

T;
Sos ae

"Gian tt Vt at
Vale (orate, # valo, valley, 1205,
Ve A ‘afb ut (?) ecg lls Ch PF.

pb tn

Orit oar even moan ee no
Vaile, ». avail, 85155 Voiloa, pr. x

| gmat 103),.Y ‘Vailes Waa on

on (Wi

at val 2300.
Wg a walle, 164, $482; Vales,

| vaioun = 2498.

Vanite, a.
NS ty wank
vane 8 i =a az, vannt
Va wi
‘arianty ene 1338,

Veure s. variety,
Brn (Vaunt), # vaunt, boast,

iy, 21; "Vangie

hel,

272.) Vaward, « vanward, vavguanl,

3617, 4842.
‘rain, 389; (Vayn), 17845

veWagn it 1115,

Vayoe-slos, (anentory) vain

«tign gion fn A ieee est

ee W
Wibbr plc webs, woven cloth, A336,

Vang, ‘villany, wickedness, 4550.

Velans, adj. villanous, horrible,
4164, It may be velaua;s Jatnio~
‘son has vylans, ‘and the Glos. to
the Troy-book’ hak wows, But
these examploa are not at all
octal * witadn.

.. venom, poivon, 4797.

4% envenons,

4842,
Mae) or Aint ba a

ae vengeance, 1484,
Ven

Sas

| sfc ee cat
ng (Vaderlinges), 4. subject,
Cus asls
a a
Vndifingid Reltaet + het “
Pr. & ys

to.

poke aaah

{ie
‘antrol fetta), 379. Soo the
note to 1.274, p.

vi Vaio hot

a" &

oso
Yai a :

Yndoruo, «. the third hour, at first
gue. (at ies sSscrare ate S058

ieee ees
middle
tie to 12, or about

faite 10
Vues, pp, distrbed, not eased,

Varo (iaslarne), rp unslain,
a adv, scarccly, 2060, Sos
asian

Pai) exeely
‘nfaldis, pr. pl. unfold, display,
oe ee
Vi aut ituall,
a a
mutable, 67, =
Vo-hay pees oe ABCA Vahapp

vn crm Wehappyost adi
super ah cat, ont unfor-

Vn-holid, uncovered, 3460,
kes ‘unrestrains
wat, pe. not hewn dows, un

slain,
I pp. dlscovered; made publi,

panes 5530. Almost certainly
for wnhone, i,6, haste.

Mer

Valeo a unicorns, 8699.
icornes,

Year unkown, 87155 (Vane

ie racers

‘GLOWEARIAL EXDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES.

ws, 22, $2, &e.; dat for us,

a
i +85
iti
t
i

1, 1346; Vinee, pl.
“er es faco,

“ae {a 100k 2928 ; to behold,
A Nes, pr. & pays heed to,

lore necessary, 126, Short
irk Avys0; 600 AUiuer In Cot-
to, ger. to visit, 573; (Visit),
Vygis wi

a

467

Woah (Wag «wal eno 0

wk wale Boe Wa

wal. eo Waren

feo Way.

a fae 2075, (Walks),
Waileway, inter}, ‘wel 106,

‘aito, v pay” hood, veal ;

Waitin, ti 8. watel aii6

Tooks, 69; (Wates), looke, 056;

Seer a ean

Waitid, pt. a. “i looked, con

sidered, 4; Waited (Wa »

Were ‘pr, & awakes, arisen, 2292 ;
‘(Waktied, pt. 82), 2099; ‘Wakyes,
awakes, come to himeelf,

i (Wakens), pr. 4. remains
beet alive, 726%; Wakand,

Bre phe wake, ‘whilst awake,

Ww : alaty, 628, | Wald ps. 2 p. woaldent, 91,
Baa, 05, 11085 pain, Seat out Cl Wa lie)
0), 2812; tnisery,” 3076; Lat ws Foquirod, 4855
00}5 9169; "Waa, woo, may aldo), desitce, 1067 ; ald it
+ illness, 5606; inter, | i.e, would it
Tae erases The wool Is 30 oul
= Waa (Woo) renee ike to, B16,
os wants, So Wan
64. ool. 7 x
ron ph pasa Bs Wal a wolds, A
Wacken (Wak waken, | Wale, lent, choie,
a aoe ony 8, 200, BOO,
Spitier ec x whdes gota away, | 897, B41, 949, 1189, ‘at
4141,” Perhaps put for vadis,i.@ | 2018, 2361, 2287, '28)
‘Wace, pl. woes, miserios, 4592. Seo Eonar 4304; aa pd
we en moet Binet ; iil,
ant sai. super alo quile, good ti
moit sorrowful, 2004, | period, M04; “(Wal waloaby
vatey rend = seo | Wales acted .: cS
Oey van keen) Witte; dng 2 1018, 906% Goth
1 hire, reward, wagea,
oles Valen

wise
Wagea {eae ‘pe 4. wagged,

Walke, v. walk over, overrun, $19;
au3

GLOBBARIAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAMES.

‘Tia
‘ase ae) i
io 738; Waspis, ph
ant "ej. wast, enproductiva
‘et Wt in Tieden
Afters wie, fo, dostroy =
"met Vaio eal ‘i
stroyed, 1811, Fhe

Wastoare, e-waste, ore 6810.
a ine Ott apr
est, 107; 2

Watir Wate, 4 wator, tram,
1290;

Wawes, ar rent alle)
a202 is! ret

wees ees

Wd (Wawes), pl. waves, 5
ein 265 ( wens 9167",

Was, so, increase, 472; ger.
Was, ¢, wax, 118,

Way, e.way, 1924281810; Ware

aye, ), way, wise, nia ee

Wi epee! nt away, 297;
ayfe tb. wend, 1868 j

seas HL Pee
ws (Vaynes),
Wayry ak “ ilies wiline 7 1706.

little rope.
ches: pr. 4 wastes away,

ai

wk Tooke for, 184 Me i
ek joked out, found, 194
Wap ‘Pr looked, 4283, S00

“ann (Wate), ger. to sand, deliver
31; (Wayfe), 1175; Wayne,
‘Lp. give up, 5134; Wayuos,

4. dospatches, sands, 4691 ;
Faas 16; Waynes,
A pute aide, 1656;
yyuod, pp. tranamittod, 4221 ;

warven in

a Wars ‘a Toans (?), 945. Bud

fos vy a window, io,
ow.

Bee
dao te
inhi ihe isiee rateh the

OLOSSARTAL INDEX, AND INDEX OF NAME,

“at eee erm

Ds PP

Wendly (Wordly), adj, gor

Were, 4. subj, wero, mij
Psat fe 143, 191 359,
wi, ke
War yan 6 ae 1586, 5598; con-
flict, 2260} (Wore), 808*; Weris,
ve 4602 ; ° Worvs,
68; OF were in war, 2578,
tye
‘ere fare poy fmp. &
satan woe , =i
Wore = (er) en 2583, Seo

A ‘weir, fate, 689,
Weel Bpr-s. wenret, 2008; Wer,
wees wore, 3636, rid.
eri (Werss) 2 mec, oi AS,
Werke, «, work, dol, 1429, 9169;
+ (Werk), work, 1290;
3 Werk, work,
"works, deods, | W
‘arken), 727%,

1071; Wi
12, 88, 8271;

471

in, 689. The samo
we o pear

oh Sab + (Werlde)
, & Bees: Werd, 4. fate,

a eo
aipemee st ity
62

farpyd)

wars
gag oe
ware, makes war, 8166; at
‘4, worred, carried on war,

LE. werreier (Bargu;
Worreour, &. warrior,
war, 6310; Werraiour
wala, bu; wen

dow urs i eaves 16;
Weer erloar (Wersnre), owas ft 3

jours), 2826
Worrayouria, Wareu i 3568}

Worraoury, they who make war
(apon ial terreus, pl

‘erat, aij. worst, 682, 4656,

Westie Wels) wrestler,

Way, adj, weary, 1271, 8488,

wer, ger to worry, 769%, Seo
Were.

Wasa" il Ge Peet
Wo ie i

ven Veeel failate 2028.
Wete, v. wit, know, 241, 904, 680,

), &. dwarf, 1706;
2), eat ‘warty

3 Jamieson,
whch, 4 honour, 11, 616, 662,
+ (Worschip), 723, 811, 1849,
an ‘Wimchips, pl. honours,
Wirchip (Worhinnye,

reece

weati ‘rastyll), v, wreath a
eee saan

“eh ‘i ee
iat, idee 798 i
Nie

Wisdom (Wisdom),
Wg pa ne io aan, a

Mito, ‘ion
wis, a oh i read Nn wite, no
Wie wae, 876, See above.

ew back,
Withein, ad ia 1080; prep.
ALL, 248; With-inent prone prep.

Without . ontside, 8019 5
out, prep. ed

‘ith-owte), 815"; ute,

oct 13065

sete 118;
B2 Winco, i
5.6; ia,
Withntan (Withowte), adv. outside,
wit it (Withsitte, ger), v. =
Witesiande x oppose,

(Withatonde), ger, 1798 5 rae
fe), ger. 20775

‘pt ph, withet
an )
W rah
Wit “pr. & doparts, 6318, Seo
With wit 107.
es ad an
“ae (Witte, 148 3900),
witnesses, 488

sto 14435
th-atondyn), pl.ph.

jente), 1592,
wire, ‘adv, verily, 422, See

terre
Worthe) ger.to bo, 1817; (Worth
1, rad age x font

to to turn
eg

tina Wonton S013)
rll ae mhai 3264:

1786; Wor-
it fis, it seat

Pra impera

ai irae "3 pr. beoamnet,
farthts thaimn’ ot o
ter af th Stee

i Wort 2
62;

103; Worthe (W:
ape, i ne
iy
(rea rt me
Bare ac
then), ph
ti tid began, on bohian

form worthen i+ a pp.)
qed
forthen), become, 722

|, bocome, 691.

Worth, ». esteem rene, 2104
Worthid, pt. s. 1 p. osteemed,

Wortho, adj. worthy, 902, 4!
(Worth), worth, 7880; iver

AS. wée,
Toad, furiout, excited,

Wound ne ‘wound, 1411;
Wonndie (Woundes Jez), ph, wounds,

wad 6 daioo a ina,

14;

fed, stra
Waoylin
away, alt onl
fp. ph ait Sere 2469. Seo

; Sele injury, wrong, harm,

Woyes, pl. walle, 8900, A.B, wedi.
Wran, 4 comer, rotired aa #100
Wra (Wray), comer, 1

rd, Dan. vram,
. Wink operveray_radbl

Wrake, «. vengeance, 1412; Wrok,

27a, AS wee
+ Fone wees gti

Fi ;
id ey eH

Grote, 8.

wath coe gry, wrth 798, $41,
2248; W

Wrath, » RC of eager, 2310,
Weathtull, aaj, wrathful, S167.

"ard

Wa,

fo Stratmann, 5199;
fs (Wrekea}, pra avenges,

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furs: in the ‘it means | Yr the Indian language, 6009;
q in and | Ye
eG a tah Brom Ce see
the vor ered come by,
bs ins wily = pleas | (You), tt sour
Wyner, pl winters, yous 4.646, | a es Tht. Boe
& a eae AOS rem ae 2889,
My i iy, 2160 Be (Kaya), pp ice frome 2888,
pia ay Bs Wn, eat dete Tee tea
yom my gen. sage 5 Sibes vt weteani ware EE Ses
30, yynd | (Inde), India, 2799,

a

% fy) Pr: & rot onside, 751,
tt} sent off, di-

1 go ge tt 8 wisian

Wous (Vynys), pr. show, 2068

a ee Sergei

knew,

Wyatl (Wistas), pia Ver bea dono

in Bie Gawain and. the: Goons

Kolght, 2189, where iti a al,
not a sb. .. westi, th

Wi nih 1202,
Genes ike) pi. wives, 1558,

Yall ; In ydille, in vain, 9975,
dolatry, idolatry, 4459; Ydolatris,

de pt hydras, water-snakes,

m

eo, yr a vp (ts),

Sears ifs 8h ovr 1645 (Xt,

Si eo, 1034, Seo ioe, |

me 2 et

Xi ‘ikenese, 191, 1126,
a a (mages), phim?

i Fie 360, 9189, 3484, 108
(inde), ‘2797; Yndeo, 5663.

2.
Yndis, ph Indians, 8639; Yndi
pd ians, 3 Yndes,

Bt, 641, 890, 2
i 12, 5863. So peas

jacora, @ nun, Zacora, ai

juia G side),
tS ide Bai ‘isle a
Keto, bold, 220, iy

reeset Pats

1898; ae Dy vigrowly
"are a Super rout active, most
wey oe On ipod St
ae i pre a ia bs Gale,

speci, By ges quickly,

i a ke Prepares himself,
imp. ¢. prepare thy~

4 114; jarkid
‘ ree i
au Fi Pre m. propared, 4894,

ar bar fiat,

Pe. = Ces aa
“ 5 Son 06, te Gate),
ree Raman

ate a tement, 6042. Cf

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