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Alexander and his Physician.

chases a great flock of sheep & [gerse them sparple.] Right so, and the wisdom of the greeks passes other nations.

In this meantime, Alexander assembled a great multitude of folks to the number of [cc] of fighting men, and removed toward Persia, & come to a river that is called Mociona, of which the water was wonder cold, & fair, & clear. And Alexander had a great [lyste] for to be bathed therein, and went into it & bathed him, & washed him therein, and also soonhe fell in a fever and a head-ache therewith, so that he [fure[ wonder ill. And when the Macedonians saw their lord so [grievously?] sick, they were wonder [heuy] and [alarmed], and said amongst themselves: "And Darius,' quoth they, '[wete] that our lorde Alexander be thus sick, he shall come & fall upon us suddenly, & [fordo] us each. For, and we had the [health?] of our lorde Alexander, we had comfort enough & dread no nation.' Then king Alexander called to him his Physician that [highte] Philippe & bade him ordain him a Medicine for his sickness. This [ilk] Physician was but a young man, but he was a [passionate cunning?] man and a [sottell] in all the points that belonged to [physics?]. And he [highte] Alexander, that [by] a certain drink he should anon make him all hale. Now fell it, that was with Alexander a prince, that [highte] Parmenius & was lord of hermony This prince had great envy to this physician, because that Alexander loved him so passionatly well & [belyfe] he wrote to Alexander, and warned him that he should be [warre] with Phillippe his physician, and on no ways receive that drink that he would give him. For he said, that Darius had [highte] to give him his daughter to wife & his kingdom after his disease of [swa ware], that he might be any craft make an end of him. When Alexander had read this letter he was nothing troubled, so much he trusted of the conscience of his physician.

In the meantime, this Physician come to Alexander with the forsaid drink, and Alexander took his drink in a hand & the forsaid letter in his other hand and beheld the Physician in the visage right sharply. To whom the Physician said:

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