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 Where so he cam in to the worldis ende  
 Comparison myghte yet neuer be makid  
 Betwix hym and another conquerour  
For al this worlde for drede of hym hath quakid  
 He was of knyghthod aud of fredom flour  
 Fortune hym made the heir of high honour  
 Saue wyn & wommen no thing might a swage  
 His high entent in armes and labour  
So was he ful of louynge corage  
 What pite were it to hym though I you tolde  
 Of darius and of a hundrid thousand mo  
 Of princis . erlis . and kyngis . bolde  
 Whiche he conqueryd & broughte to woo  
I say as fer as aman may ryde or go  
 The worlde was his . what sholde I more deuyse  
 For though I wrrote or tolde you euyr mo  
 Of his knyghthood it mighte not suffyse  
 Xij . yeer he regned as I rede in Machabe  
Philippis sone of Macedo he was  
 That first was kyng of grece that countre  
 O worthy gentyl Alisaunder allas  
 That euyr sholde falle such acas  
 Empoysond of thy folk thow were  
Thy strong fortune hath tournyd in to an aas  
 And for the ne wepte she neuer ateer  
 Who shal yeue men terys to compleyne  
 To the of gentilnesse and of franchyse  
 That all the worlde weldid in his demeyne  
And yet hym thoughte it mighte not suffyse  

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