The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun printed on parallel pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss mss., with the variants of the other texts: Edited with introduction, notes, and glossary by F. J. Amours |
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 | CHAPTER LII. The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun |  |
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CHAPTER LII.
How Daryus king wes discomfite
And syne ȝeid to þe batall tyte.
And syne ȝeid to þe batall tyte.
Four hundreth winter and twenty
Or God wes borne of oure Lady,
Consentand all þe barnage haill,
Daryus tuke þe gouernaill
Off all Perss in properte,
And regnyt in gret ryalte.
Quhen he recouerit had Assyry
And Babelone alhalely
Agane þe stout king Amprotyr,
Off Sythy þat tyme lord and syre,
He raissit oste and muffit weire,
And come on him with his powere,
For causs þat Amprotyr, the king
Off Sythy, maid him plane warnyng
Off his dochter till his wif,
And for this causs begouth this strif.
The oste of Perss wes namit þen
Sevin hundreth thousand armyt men,
That for the luf of þat lady
Set þaim alhaill in iuperdy
Off gret perellis and dout of deid,
And oft disparit of remeid;
For, as thai throu þe cuntre past,
The Sythikis handillit þaim so fast,
Conwoyand þaim on ilka syde,
That nane durst fra the batall byd
That the Sythikis mycht oureta,
Than thai but ransoun wald thaim sla;
And sa be sindry iuperdyis
Fourty thousand reknyt twiss
Darius myssit of his men,
With iuperdyis at slane were þen,
And him self all prevely
Fled of the kinrik of Sythy,
For dreid thai suld behind him streke
The furdis and þe briggis brek
Off Danuby, þe gret ryvere
That mercheand is to Sythy neire.
Off þe scaith þat he had tane
He maid bot litill caire or nane,
And thocht þat tinsall wes bot small
For to rekin his costis all;
Bot me think now þat quha suld tyne
Sa mony of gud men and fyne,
That he were nocht of litill mycht
That had sa mony folkis to fycht
Vpone a day in till a feild
With wicht men wappinnis for to weild,
As Daryus tynt in till Sythy
Throu his hawtane succudry.
Or God wes borne of oure Lady,
Consentand all þe barnage haill,
Daryus tuke þe gouernaill
Off all Perss in properte,
And regnyt in gret ryalte.
Quhen he recouerit had Assyry
And Babelone alhalely
Agane þe stout king Amprotyr,
Off Sythy þat tyme lord and syre,
He raissit oste and muffit weire,
And come on him with his powere,
For causs þat Amprotyr, the king
Off Sythy, maid him plane warnyng
Off his dochter till his wif,
And for this causs begouth this strif.
The oste of Perss wes namit þen
Sevin hundreth thousand armyt men,
That for the luf of þat lady
Set þaim alhaill in iuperdy
Off gret perellis and dout of deid,
And oft disparit of remeid;
For, as thai throu þe cuntre past,
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Conwoyand þaim on ilka syde,
That nane durst fra the batall byd
That the Sythikis mycht oureta,
Than thai but ransoun wald thaim sla;
And sa be sindry iuperdyis
Fourty thousand reknyt twiss
Darius myssit of his men,
With iuperdyis at slane were þen,
And him self all prevely
Fled of the kinrik of Sythy,
For dreid thai suld behind him streke
The furdis and þe briggis brek
Off Danuby, þe gret ryvere
That mercheand is to Sythy neire.
Off þe scaith þat he had tane
He maid bot litill caire or nane,
And thocht þat tinsall wes bot small
For to rekin his costis all;
Bot me think now þat quha suld tyne
Sa mony of gud men and fyne,
That he were nocht of litill mycht
That had sa mony folkis to fycht
Vpone a day in till a feild
With wicht men wappinnis for to weild,
As Daryus tynt in till Sythy
Throu his hawtane succudry.
Throu Asye syne he past onone
Quhen he had dauntit Macedone;
Wenys þat neire is be þe se
With his navyne werrayit he,
And þe folkis of Athenis haill
Raiss to mak þaim suppowall;
Forthy Darius movit weire
Aganis þaim with haill powere;
And thai þaim purvait for defens
And maid agane þaim resistens,
And with þare awne cumpany
With sowdanis of Spartany,
And bot xi. thousand but maire
In till þe feild he semblit þare
Agane vi. hunder thousand haill
Off Persantis ordanit for batall;
In to that fecht Melchiadess
For þe Athenis chiftane wes.
Thare baith thai ostis sone onone
In to the feild of Marrabone
Togidder assemblit hastely;
Bot of þe fechting wes ferly,
For quha that neire þaim by had bene,
He mycht þe ta part weill haif sene
In batall dourely men slaand,
The toþer as bestis thare deand.
Twa hundreth Persantis thare
Slane in the feild funding were.
Darius thus gatis discomfite
Chassit fled till his schippis tyte,
And with his navyne in sic affray
Vnslane bot chaissit as that day
Held till his land of Perss, and thare
He semblit sone all his powere
In þat entent for till haif bene
Revengeit of his fais kene;
Bot in his oste he deit throu cass,
And his purposs falȝeit was.
Quhen he had dauntit Macedone;
Wenys þat neire is be þe se
With his navyne werrayit he,
And þe folkis of Athenis haill
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Forthy Darius movit weire
Aganis þaim with haill powere;
And thai þaim purvait for defens
And maid agane þaim resistens,
And with þare awne cumpany
With sowdanis of Spartany,
And bot xi. thousand but maire
In till þe feild he semblit þare
Agane vi. hunder thousand haill
Off Persantis ordanit for batall;
In to that fecht Melchiadess
For þe Athenis chiftane wes.
Thare baith thai ostis sone onone
In to the feild of Marrabone
Togidder assemblit hastely;
Bot of þe fechting wes ferly,
For quha that neire þaim by had bene,
He mycht þe ta part weill haif sene
In batall dourely men slaand,
The toþer as bestis thare deand.
Twa hundreth Persantis thare
Slane in the feild funding were.
Darius thus gatis discomfite
Chassit fled till his schippis tyte,
And with his navyne in sic affray
Vnslane bot chaissit as that day
Held till his land of Perss, and thare
He semblit sone all his powere
In þat entent for till haif bene
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Bot in his oste he deit throu cass,
And his purposs falȝeit was.
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