"Jhesu was born here, & alle our first lynage,
"We ere his childre dere, we clayme þis our heritage,
"þat þise paen hondes our ancestre haf reft,
"& þorgh hard woundes of þam salle reyme it eft.
"Bot if þei wille with pes þis lond ȝeld vs alle quite,
"þei salle þan haf reles, of fayth gode respite.
"If þei at no certeyn wille ȝeld it vs with pes,
"We salle wynne it ageyn, þat þei bifor vs les.
" [Ke son deuer ne face, pur quay la croice perist, [sive prist, [Hastiement luy prenge la male mort subit, Codd. Gall.] þat dos not his deuere with dede no with rede,
"Hastely þis ȝere falle him þe ferynges dede.
PHILIP vnderstode, R. wild not consent,
þat ilk conant forth ȝode, þat þe Soudan sent.
Philip held him stille, & bigan to smyle,
Men sais þat comes of ille, & þinkyng som gile.
Noþeles day & oþer he purueied priuely,
Of mast, saile, & roþer he dight his schip redy.
¶ Oft he sent for leue vnto kyng R. [Philippus licentia pe|tita a Ri|cardo ad Franciam se paravir.]
Sekenes gan him so greue, þat he mot wende homward.
He was in poynt to ȝelde þe gaste, & sone to die,
For euel he ne myght him welde, in bed behoued him lie.
Sen oþer wais ne myght vaile, þan said R. for wo,
"Philip now wille me faile, & alle gate wend me fro.
"Conant holdes he non, þat he to Jhesu hight,
"With body & soule alon to venge him at his myght.
"Sen Jhesu he wille not venge, ne hold his vowe no þing,
"He salle him chalenge þe day of his endyng.
