Sin  or,  tendez  a  mai ;  ne  devez  pas  rier :
Ce  navel  que  je  port  doit  tout  le  mont  crier.
L'autr'ier  je  fi  a  Londres  une  grosse  concier;
La  ne  movra  baron  la  meilleur  ne  la  pier,

Que  tout  ne  fout  venez  a  ce  grand  plaidement.
La  arra  fet  tel  chos,  je  craie  vraiement,
Qu  'i  farra  rois  Frangois  .i.  grant  poentement
De  ce  terres  qu'il  tient  contre  le  Glaise  gent.
Sinor,  lone  tens  fout-il  que  Mellins  profita
Que  Philippes  de  Frans,  .i.  sinor  qui  fi  ja,

Of  my  King  of  England,  who  is  in  a  good  ship, — a  valiant  knight,  hardy,
and  loyal,— and  of  Edward  his  son,  who  hath  flaxen  hair, — it  pleases  me  to
make  a  saying  wliich  is  quite  new.
And  of  that  King  of  France,  that  long  baron, — who  held  Normandy  wrong-
fully by  ill  event ; — long  time  did  he  settle  his  house  upon  Paris, — that  he  never
but  for  a  war  alone  put  on  his  spur.
Lords,  attend  to  me ;  you  must  not  laugh  : — all  the  world  ought  to  cry  this

news  which  I  bring. — The  other  day  there  was  at  London  a  great  assembly ;

there  no  baron,  from  the  best  to  the  worst,  would  move.
But  they  would  all  come  to  this  great  debating. — There  would  have  been  done
such  a  thing,  I  believe  truly, — that  it  would  have  caused  the  French  King  a
great  fright — concerning  the  lands  which  he  holds  against  the  English  people.
Lords,  it  is  a  long  time  since  Merlin  prophecied — that  Philip  of  France,  a


REIGN    OF    KING    HENRY  HI.  G5

Conquerra  tout  ce  ters  quanqu'il  fout  par  de9a,
Mes  toute  vols,  dit  je  1',  qu'encore  Glais  I'arra.
