Deseruit  Lodovica  cohors,  comitesque  superbos
Concessa  pudet  ire  via,  Montique  Sorello
Subsidium  ferale  ferunt,  nam  quo  magis  ilium
Major  palma  colit,  graviorem  ferre  ruinam
Prsecavet  ira  Dei ;  sed  cautior  inde  recessit
Nobilitas  comitum,  fidei  flos,  regia  virtus,
Cestrensis  clipeus,  donee  frendente  tumultu
Transierat  rabies  notum  sviper  ardua  castrum,
Trigintseque  latus,  longique  superbia  belli
Fluxit  ad  obsessam  matronse  nobilis  arcem.
^  Hue  ubi  fata  feras  fremitu  flexere  pbalangas,

Fama  volat,  comitesque  vocat,  comitumque  sodales
Cestrenses,  crescitque  seges  clipeata  virorum.
Regia  signa  micant,  et  conjurata  sequuntur
Agmina,  clara  fides  cum  denique  protrahit  ora,
Candida  signa  crucis  juvenum  preestantia  pingunt
Pectora,  consolidat  communis  corda  voluntas ;
Vincendi  spes  una  fuit,  victoria  cunctas
In  facies  preemissa  patet,  plausuque  secundo

have  the  shame  of  going  the  way  that  is  open  to  them,  and  they  carry  fierce  aid
to  Mountsorrel ;  for  as  a  greater  victory  attends  it,  so  has  the  anger  of  God
ordained  that  it  should  not  undergo  a  greater  ruin.  But  with  more  caution
retires  thence  the  nobility  of  earls,  the  flower  of  the  faith,  the  royal  strength,  the
shield  of  Chester,  until  with  roaring  tumult  the  rage  of  the  others  had  passed  the
famous  castle  on  the  heights  (Nottingham),  and  the  bank  of  Trent,  and  the  pride
of  long  war  had  flown  to  the  besieged  citadel  of  the  noble  matron  (Lincoln).
