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The march against Porus.

that he found there, of the which he & all his men were made rich. And also wrote unto them, that they should make great solemnity lasting eight days because of the wedding of Alexander & Roxana Darius' daughter. And so did Alexander, in Persia, with the macedonians & the persians, many a day.

After this king Alexander assembled a great Army, both of macedonians & of persians, and went toward India for to war upon Porus, king of India, the which ordained him for to come & help king Darius. And, when Alexander was entered unto India, he went through wilderness & waste country, wherein were great rivers and many great caves & caverns. And then Alexander & his men waxed weary, & [irked] right sore. And the princes of macedonia & of greece murmured amongst them greatly, & said each to to the other: 'It might have sufficed to us, that we have overset king Darius, & conquerred the kingdom of Persia. Where beseech we farther into India, the which is full of wild beasts, and leaves our own lands. And this Alexander none other things desires, but for to wend about and through war to bring all the world under his subjection. For war & debate [unreschez] his body so far forth that, and he rested a long time without war, right as it were for [defaute of mete] he should fail & die. Leave we him therefore, and turn we against unto our own country, and let him wend forth with the persians, if he will.' When Alexander heard this, he [garte] all the Army abide, and he went and stood in a high place amongst them, and say on this ways: 'Depart thou in two, so that the persians be by themselves and the Macedonians and the greeks by themselves.' And when they had so done, Alexander said to the Macedonians and the greeks: 'A A, mine own dear knights, quoth he, 'well thee know that these persians, unto this day, has been contrary & rebellious unto thou & to me, and thee will now leave me here with them, and turn again to your own country. Well thee [wate], that when your hearts were troubled, & feared, for the words that were contained in Darius' letters, I through my speech & my counsel comforted your hearts. And afterward, when we come into the field against our enemies, I went before thou all.

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