Bannatyne Club > Buik of the most noble and vailzeand conquerour Alexander the Great

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Men fais he fall haue the mare valour,
But tume or take thay worllit fua,
Rulhand and rugand to and fra,
Samekill thay thole trauell and hete,
Angerris and pane trauell and fuete,
that fic ane ftour attour thaine ftude,
that euin vp to the lyft it zude,
thus war thay lang that nane micht fe,
Quha maift that micht auanfit be,
this warlling was fa fers and fell,
that nane the fuith with toung micht tell,
and leftit lang that nane thame faw,
For all faucht fix in that thraw,
that ilk man had famekill ado,
that nane tent micht tak vther to,
Felbnas that in Kirnalles lay,
and Ideas that was fa gay,
Held fpeich thare wift thay nocht,
Quhat thay war and quhat thay wrocht,
For thay war fa countred and dicht,
Sa renin fa rent into the fecht,
that nane effonze appeared thare,
Na nane micht knaw weill quhat thay ware,
thay put and fhowit with all thare micht,
Floridas ilarkeft was I hecht,
Far away than the Bauderane,
He rugged to him with fic ane mane,
and thirled with ftrenth fa faft,
that his hart nere in fhunder braft,
the Bauderane fuounit faft he was fa wa,
and in that tyme that he fuounit fa,
Floridas that was gude at neid
375 Bb.iiij. Hynt