yn to any erthely prynce.

[Footnote 245: cleped.]

[Footnote 246: of trouthe.]

[Sidenote: V'ba t'nslat'.]

Be glad, O Londone, be glad ant make gret joye,
Citee of Citees, of noblesse procellyng;
In thi begynnyng called Newe Troye,
For worthynesse thank God of all thing,
Whiche hast this day resceyved so the[247] kyng,
With many a signe and many an observaunce,
To encrese thi name be newe remembraunce.

[Footnote 247: thy.]

Swyche joye was[248] in the consistorie,
Mad for the tryumple with al the surpluage,
Whan Cesar Julius com hom with his victorie,
Ne for the conquest of Stepyon[249] in Cartage,
As Londone made in every maner age,
Out of Fraunce at his[250] hom comyng,
In to this Citee of there noble kyng.

[Footnote 248: was nevere.]

[Footnote 249: Syprion.]

[Footnote 250: the.]

Of vij thinges y preyse this Citee;
Of trewe menyng, and feithfull obeisaunce,[251]
Of rightwysnesse, trouthe, and equyte,
Of stabilnesse, ay kept in alegiaunce,
And for of vertu, thou hast suche suffisaunce
In this land here, and othere londes alle,
The kynges Chaumbre, of custom men the calle.

[Footnote 251: observaunce.]

L'ENVOYE.

O noble Meir, be it into[252] youre plesaunce,
And unto[253] alle that duellithe in this Citee,
On my rudenes and on myn ignoraunce,
Of grace and mercy for to have pite,
My symple makyng for to take at gre;
Considere this that in the[254] moost lowly wyse,
My wille were good for to do[255] servyse.

[Footnote 252: unto.]

[Footnote 253: to.]

[Footnote 254: _Omitted._]

[Footnote 255: for to do you servyse.]

Here endith the makyng of the Comynge of the Kyng out of Fraunce to
Londone, Be the monk of Bery.--_Deo gracias._[256]

[Footnote 256: _This paragraph is omitted._]

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P. 139. A^{o} 36 Hen. VI. "In this yere was a grete watch in London,
and al the gates kepte every nyght, and ij aldermen watchyng: and
withynne a while after the kyng and lordes were accorded, and went a
procession in Paulis."

The temporary reconciliation between the adherents of the King and of
the Duke of York, so briefly alluded to in the text, and which is best
illustrated by the following extract from a contemporary letter,
served, like every other event of his times, for the exercise of
Lydgate's pen; but his description of it in the following ballad is
infinitely more valuable from its historical accuracy, than its
poetical merit. Of this article