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._] * * * * * 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 there are two copies extant; one in the Cottonian MS. Nero A. VI. and the other in the Cottonian MS. Vespasianus B. XVI.: the latter copy has been printed, though very erroneously, and with the orthography modernized, by Mr. Sharon Turner; but the former has not been before noticed. As they differ in some places from each other, and are very short, it has been thought advisable that both transcripts should be inserted. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM JOHN BOKKING TO SIR JOHN FASTOLF: DATED ON THE WEDNESDAY AFTER MID LENT SUNDAY, _i.e._ 15 MARCH, 1457. [_Paston Letters_, vol. i. p. 154.] "Lyke it your maistership to wyte, that as for tidings, the Counsell is, the fornone, at the blake Frires, for the ease of resortyng of the Lordes that ar withinne the toun; and at afternon at the white Frirers in Fletstrete, for the Lordis with owte the town; and all things shall come to a good conclusion with God is grace; for the Kyng shall come hidre this weke, and the Quene also, as some men sayn, and my Lord Buk and Stafford with hire, and muche puple. My Lord of Caunterbury takith grete peyne up on hym daily, and will write unto yow the certeynte of suche tidings as falle; and shuld have doon or this tyme, saf for that he wolde knowe an ende of the mattre." UPON THE RECONCILIATION OF THE LORDS OF THE YORKIST FACTION WITH THE KYNG AND HIS ADHERENTS.