(2)
¶ What doþ a kynges crowne signyfye,
Whan stones and floures on sercle is bent?
Lordis, comouns, and clergye
To ben all at [at is added by another hand.] on assent.
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To kepe þat crowne, take good tent,
In wode, in feld, in dale, and downe.
Þe leste lyge-man, wiþ body and rent,
He is a parcel of þe crowne.
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(3)
¶ What signyfyeþ þe stones aboute?
Richesse, strengþe, and gret bounte;
Oure townes and castels, þe reme wiþ-oute,
Þey are oure stones of gret pouste.
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In pes þey kepe all þis contre,
Holynes, contemplacioun.
God, let hem neuer skaterid be,
And saue þe kyng, and kepe þe crowne!
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(4)
¶ By-ȝonde þe see, and we had nouȝt,
But all oure enemys so neyȝe vs were,
Þouȝ all here gold were hider brouȝt,
I wolde set hit at lytel store.
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Oure enemys wolde coke þerfore
Wiþ ordynaunce and habergeoun,
Wynne þat, and wel more:
Oure landes, oure lyues, þe reme, þe crowne.
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(5)
¶ Ȝif we among oure self debate,
Þan endeþ floure of chyualrie.
Alle oþere londis þat doþ vs hate,
Oure feblenes wole aspye;
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On euery syde þey [folio 111a] wole in hye,
Þe stalworþe cast þe feble adoun.
Ȝif þey wiþ myȝt haue maystrye,
ffro þe riȝt heire wolde take þe crowne.
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