NOW is kyng R. dede, & laid in stone,
Non heire was afterward, bot his broþer Jon.
His broþer erle Geffrey right heire felle to be,
(Bot after R. day Jon tok þe dignite
Or Arthure his [Id est, Geffrey's.] sonne,) if he had had his lif.
Bot Jon was þe enchesonne, & moued þer a strif.
Tiþing here we say, þat Jon wille wedded be,
þe erle of Aquiley his douhter takes he,
Elizabeth þe gent, fair lady was sche,
Tuo sons of þer descent, tuo douhters ladies fre.
THE Ersbisshop Hubert of Canterbire þe se [Johannes Rex coro|natus est per Huber|tum Archi|episcopum Cantuariæ.]
Com with gode hert, to do þe solempnite.
At Westmynster, þorgh assent of erle & baroun,
[A Johon le fiz Richard ad done la coroun, Enoynt est en Reis oue [sive ouf] grant deuo|cioun, MSS. Gall.] To þat I ore ment Hubert gaf þe coroun,
& enoynted he was als kyng þorgh resoun.
Jon did ay trespas, men fond in him enchesoun,
He lyued in wo & strife, & in tribulacioun.
He was of licherous life, þorgh what his nacioun
Partie ageyn him ches, & wild haf born him doun.
Normundie he les at his confusioun,
In þe courte of France he was cald a feloun
For Arthure dede þat chance, his broþer sonne Geffroun,
Erle was of Bretayn, þat to þis lond had right
For to haf bien cheftayn. If Jon his dede had dight
My maister nouht he wrote, to write he me forbede.
Noþeles wele I wote, siþen þe child was dede,
