Kirkes wild he dele prouendis þat wer worþie,
To clerkes of his chapele, þat wele couþ syng & hie.
HENRY kyng our prince at Westmynster kirke
þe erlys douhter of Prouince, þe fairest may o lif,
Hir name is Helianore, of [De gentyl parente MSS. Gall.] gentille norture,
Biȝond þe se þat wore was non suilk creature.
In Inglond is sche corouned þat lady gent,
Tuo sonnes, tuo douhteres fre Jhesus has þam lent,
Edward & Edmunde, knyght gode in stoure,
Of Laicestre a stounde was Edmunde erle & floure.
Vnto þe Scottis kyng was married Margarete,
Of Bretayn Beatrice ȝing þe erle had þat mayden suete.
Faire is þe werk & hie in London at Westmynster kirke,
þat þe kyng Henrie of his tresore did wirke.
Grace God gaf him here, þis lond to kepe long space,
Sex & [Rectius, fourty, cum Codd. Gall.] fifty ȝere withouten werre in grace;
Bot sone afterward failed him powere,
Bot his sonne Edward was his conseilere.
Our quene þat was þen dame Helianore his wife,
þe gode erle of Warenne [Sire Huge lespenser MSS. Gall.] Sir Hugh was þan olife,
