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to him and killed him. When king Philip saw this,
he was greatly moved, and rose up, and got a sword and ran
towards Alexander, to smite him. But at once
4 he fell down; and ever the near Alexander that he drew, the
greater he fell to the earth right as he was afraid. And than
Alexander said to him: "Philip" he said "how is it
so, that you, that has won with the din of swords all Greece,
8 and has now no strength to stand on your feet." And then
all the hall was troubled, and the bridal feast was hindered. And
Alexander went about the hall, and cast down the dwelling
with the meat and drink that were upon them, and took
12 Cleopatra, and shut her out at the hall door. And the
king Philip, for sorrow that he took to, fell grief sick.
And a little afterwards, Alexander went to him to
visit him and comfort him, and said unto him "Philip,"
16 he said, "it all it be noghte seemly, that I call you by thy
proper name; never-the-less, noghte as thy son, but as thy
good friend, I shall tell you my advice. It is fully my
council that you reconcile again unto you my lady,
20 my monther Olympia, and that you grieve nothing for the
death of Lesias, and not made heavy therefore. For un-
kindly I think that you did, and ungoodly, that you drew
thy sword to smite me there-with.' ANd when Philip
24 heard their words, his tendered, and he began to weep. And
then Alexander went to his mother Olympia,a nd said unto
her: "Be noghte afraid' he said 'and be noghte heavy to my father,
for all thy trespass be privee, and noghte known, never-the-less
28 you are in part to blame." And when he had said this, he
led her far to the king Philip. And he took and kissed
her, and thus was she reconciled unto him again.
After this, there came messengers from Darius, the emperor
32 of Persia, to king Philip, and asked him to pay tribute And
Alexander answered to their messengers, and said, "Say to Darius,
your lord," he said, "that since the time that Philip's son was
grown of age you hence ever have grown barren and consumed