On þo þat God lufes lest mishappenyng salle falle,
þat kepe not his bihest, þei ere vngraciouse alle.
¶ It sais in a storie, þe bible may not lie, [Machabæ|orum.]
þat [Sic.] God God gaf þe maistrie to þe childre of Mathatie.
þe bible sais bot seuen þe were, & no mo,
Seuen thousand euen ageyn alle durst þei go.
þei wer stedfast & traist, lufed God & held his lawe,
Folie wild þei no fraist, ne to no falshede drawe.
God lufed þam & þei him, he halp þam at þer nede,
Ensample I rede ȝe nym, þat ȝe may so wele spede.
¶ þe date was a þousand þre hundred alle bot þre,
Edward tok on hand Flandres forto se.
AFTER [Apres la seinte feste del Assensioun, Maunda ly Reis [vel, le Roy] Edward par my sa regioun, Aerceuesqe, [vel, Lerceuesk] euesqe, count & a baroun, Et a touz luy al|tre, que ount pur garysoun Vint liuere de tere en posses|sioun, Venir a sa court, a fere redempcioun, Ou passer oue son cors, sur ly Fraunceis feloun, Ke atort luy defor|cent la tere de Gascoun, MSS. Gall.] þe haly þorsday þe kyng sent his sond, [De parlia|mento apud Westmona|sterium.]
Messengers of way, for barons of þe lond,
For bisshopes þat þei kende, & oþer þat þei found,
þat ilk ȝere mot dispende of londes tuenty pound,
Suld com þer he was, & with him mak þer frette,
Or with his body pas tille Gascoyn als he sette.
¶ þe barons & of hise said, "þei suld not so,
"Suilk a new seruise to reise ne to do.
"For our state it apeires, without any reson,
"& tille alle our heires grete disheriteson.
