Be helpand þe Almanz in alle maner of nede.
Boþe to hold couenaz with scrite enselid þe dede.
Now Antoyn is of lond, God saue him & his pers,
Edward sendis his sond, to France messengers,
Frere [Hugh de Mauncestre, vel Huge de Maumecestre, in Codd. Gall.] Hugh of Malmcestre was a Jacobyn,
& William of Gaynesburgh was a Cordelyn.
Alle þise passid þe se, so com þe erle of Artoys
In prison did þam be a seuenyght in Caleys.
To Paris siþen þei cam, & þer fond þei þe kyng,
þe letter forth þei nam, to trowe þer sayng.
þis letter of credance þei schewed in his present,
Here now þe acordance, what þer sayng ment.
SIR Hugh was man of state, he said as I salle rede, [Duo fratres facti sunt nuncii ad Regem Franciæ.]
"To prince & to prelate men salle loute & drede,
"& for lord dere his biddyng salle men do,
"To lesse & more in fere haf fayth & treuth also,
"& for our lord Edward, [Qe dieu de mal defent, Gall.] þat God him saue & se,
"We tok þis trauaile hard, his bode to bere to þe.
¶ "He settes þe terme & stage bi vs, whan & why
"þat he has don homage for Gascoyn plenerly,
"In forward formed in pes, as was þer acordance,
"As ȝour ancestres ches of Inglond & of France,
"þei mad a pes final aftere þer contek,
"þou has broken it alle, & don him many ille chek.
¶ "Now at his last goyng, whan he to Gascoyn went,
"ȝe sette a certeyn þing, at ȝour boþe assent,
