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Darius consults his councillors.

answered & said, 'thou has here,' quoth he, 'greatly magnified' & commended Alexande, in that, that thou says he is more fervent for to come into Persia, than we unto Ellada. And therefore if it be pleasing unto your majestee, use thee the manners of Alexander, and so shall [ze] well & peaceably [whelde] your empire & conquer many other rooms. Alexande, when he goes to battle and shall fight, he lets none of his princes nor his other lords go before & himself come behind, but he goes before them all, and so rises his worship & his name.

Quoth Darius, 'Whether [awe] me to take [sa] ensample at Alexander, or Alexander at me.' A prince answered & said, 'Alexander,' quoth he, 'is a warrior man & awise, & has trespassed in no degree & therefore he does manly by himself all that he does. For he has taken the form of the lion.' 'Whereby knows thou that,' quoth Darius, and he anwered, & said, 'what time,' quoth he, 'that I was sent to Macedonia for to ask tribute of king Philippe, I saw, by his Figure & his wise answer, that he should be a [passionate?] man, both of wit, & of doings. Therefore, if it be pleasing unto thou, I counsel that thee send to all the lands & countries that belong to your empire, that is to say to Parthy & Medea, Appollamy, Mesopotamia, Italy, Bactri, and to all the remnant for they are subjects unto thou a hundredth: [c. and fifty] of diverse folk. To the lords of all these, I [rede] thee send commanding them, that they come to thou, in all the haste that they may, with all the men that they may get which are able to go to war. And when they are all assembled to gather late us beseek our gods of help. And then Alexander when he seez such a multitude of folk against him, his heart shall fail him, and his men's also. And others he shall for fear turn him against to his own country, or else submit him unto thou.' And then answered another prince, & said, 'This is a good counsel,' quoth he, 'but it is not profitable. Wait thou not well that a wolf

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