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The brave Persian; who alone dares against Alexander.

sword on high, & let fly at him with all the might that he had, and hit him on the head so fiercely, that he [perched] his [bayonet?], and drew the blood of him. When Alexander knights saw that: they took him anon, & brought him before Alexander, and Alexander, supposing that he had been a macedonian, said unto him, 'Worshipful man,' quoth he, '& doubty & strange what ailed thee at me, for to give such a strike, knew thou not well that it was I, Alexander your helper & your [allere] servante'. And [the] Persian answered, & said, '[Wait?] thou well worshipful emperor,' quoth he, 'I am not macedonian, but I am a man of Persia; and this deed I did. For king Darius made me a promise of his daughter to wife, if I might bring him thy head.' Then king Alexander called before him all his knights and asked them what they thought it best to go smite off his head, Some for to put him to the fire for to burn, Some to go draw & hang him. And when Alexander had heard their counsel, he answered & said: 'Sirs,' quoth he, 'what wrong or what fault can thee find in this man, [Sen] he has [besied] him to obey to his lord's commandment, and at his power fulfilled it. Which of thou, so deems him worthy to be dead, es worthy in time coming to have the same doom. For if I command any of thou for to go & slay Darius, the same pain, that thee deem this man for to suffer, were thee worthy for to suffer yourselves of Darius, if thee might be [gotten?]. And then he commanded that he should wend home to his fellows without any harm. When Darius heard that his lords were slain in great number, he gathered a great multitude of knights and of footmen, and went up on a hill that is called Taurisius, and there he made his muster of his men, supposing that he should overcome Alexander through [a] multitude of folke. But also as they met with their [bathere] ostez, and began for to fight, Darius men fled and himself also. And Alexander persuaded him unto the city of Bactrian, and there he [luged] him, and offered Sacrifice to his gods. And on the morn, he [garte] assail the

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